Certain Christians and Magic: An mmntech cool starry bra

[mmntech]

I was in Gamestop yesterday. Don't judge me! I had gone in to grab a copy of Mario 3D, which is a fantastic game by the way.

Anyway, I'm one of two customers in the store. So I'm waiting in line. The other guy in front of me was some bewildered looking fellow. Looked pretty white bread. The conversation he was having with the clerk perked my interest.

I'm guessing he's an uncle looking to buy a game for his nieces and nephews. The clerk is listing off some Wii games. I remember Kirby's Epic Yarn being one of them. Then the dude asks "does it have magic in it". The clerk says it does, Kirby is transformed into yarn by magic. Dude's like, "aww, that's no good", he says with a frustrates sigh. They're a very religious family and their mom prohibits depictions of magic in the house. The clerk asks how old the kids are, and he replies that they're all in their teens.

The guy sounded pretty frustrated at having to buy a gift that has to please this religious mom. He finally settled on How to Train Your Dragon. Apparently she liked the movie.


Since he's a white guy and didn't look Jewish, I'm assuming the family is Christian. I've heard about this before. Especially after Harry Potter came out. Supposedly any depiction of magic, black or white, is a no no among some sects. Being an atheist who grew up in an agnostic home, I don't understand. Why is this? Is there something in the bible that explicitly prohibits it?

Cliff's Notes
-MMNtech creeps on a guy buying a game for extended family
-Guy needs to find a game that doesn't have magic in it to please ultra religious mom.
-MMNtech doesn't understand why fictional magic is so bad

 

[Aikouka]

Since he's a white guy and didn't look Jewish, I'm assuming the family is Christian. I've heard about this before. Especially after Harry Potter came out. Supposedly any depiction of magic, black or white, is a no no among some sects. Being an atheist who grew up in an agnostic home, I don't understand. Why is this? Is there something in the bible that explicitly prohibits it?

A few years ago, my mom ripped up my sister's Harry Potter books because the silly, fat, evangelic man on TV told her it was about witchcraft.

 

[dud]

Thank you for sharing this with us ...

 

[BurnItDwn]

I do not know the name of the cult in which all depictions of magic are "harem." However, I am not surprised that there are crazies out there who subscribe to it.

 

[CoachB]

Burning bushes, healing the lame, plagues of locust, parting the Nile.......cool as any magic Harry Potter ever wrought. I say poTAEto, you say poTAHto.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

Only Jesus does the good magic. If anyone else is doing magic, it's evil magic.

 

[crashtestdummy]

You should have told him to get GTA. No magic there.

 

[her209]

 

[waggy]

yeap

the family across the street won't watch it. why? because it has witchcraft. then again the oldest don't celebrate Halloween either.

not sure if t hey do christmas. heh

 

[Jumpem]

My parents were that way growing up. No RPGs, magic, or D&D games.

As for the other replies, no movies with magic, and we usually spent Halloween at church instead of going out.

 

[Fayd]

I was in Gamestop yesterday. Don't judge me! I had gone in to grab a copy of Mario 3D, which is a fantastic game by the way.

Anyway, I'm one of two customers in the store. So I'm waiting in line. The other guy in front of me was some bewildered looking fellow. Looked pretty white bread. The conversation he was having with the clerk perked my interest.

I'm guessing he's an uncle looking to buy a game for his nieces and nephews. The clerk is listing off some Wii games. I remember Kirby's Epic Yarn being one of them. Then the dude asks "does it have magic in it". The clerk says it does, Kirby is transformed into yarn by magic. Dude's like, "aww, that's no good", he says with a frustrates sigh. They're a very religious family and their mom prohibits depictions of magic in the house. The clerk asks how old the kids are, and he replies that they're all in their teens.

The guy sounded pretty frustrated at having to buy a gift that has to please this religious mom. He finally settled on How to Train Your Dragon. Apparently she liked the movie.


Since he's a white guy and didn't look Jewish, I'm assuming the family is Christian. I've heard about this before. Especially after Harry Potter came out. Supposedly any depiction of magic, black or white, is a no no among some sects. Being an atheist who grew up in an agnostic home, I don't understand. Why is this? Is there something in the bible that explicitly prohibits it?

Cliff's Notes
-MMNtech creeps on a guy buying a game for extended family
-Guy needs to find a game that doesn't have magic in it to please ultra religious mom.
-MMNtech doesn't understand why fictional magic is so bad

i'm guessing that anything "supernatural" intercedes on "god's realm". and since god doesn't hand his power out, it must have come from the devil. for the same reason, apothecaries, alchemists, spiritual healers, and scientists of old were always looked at as being somehow evil... at least until a formal scientific method was developed, and through experimentation and peer review, "magic" was explained through science.

it's natural human instinct to fear what you don't understand, and if you can "understand" it by classifying it as evil, then that's all the better?

at least, that's why they might be afraid of magic in the real world. as far as in fiction... people can't separate reality from fiction?

 

[Fayd]

My parents were that way growing up. No RPGs, magic, or D&D games.

As for the other replies, no movies with magic, and we usually spent Halloween at church instead of going out.

how....dull...

 

[SlowSpyder]

My sister was/is one of those types. Harry Potter = witchcraft, Halloween = evil. She's white and married to a black man. She has made Facebook posts regarding the good that black civil rights leaders have done for man, and how ugly bigotry is. Yet she never replied when I agreed with her that bigotry is an ugly thing, so she must be all for gay rights than as well... odd, huh?

 

[maniacalpha1-1]

But magic isn't real...are they, by not allowing fictional depictions of it, trying to say that it IS real?

 

[Brigandier]

But magic isn't real...are they, by not allowing fictional depictions of it, trying to say that it IS real?

Magic is real, see God. Some witches, by making a pact with Lucifer, perform magic-like acts and need to be burned. If they aren't burned, the community suffers.

 

[maniacalpha1-1]

Magic is real, see God. Some witches, by making a pact with Lucifer, perform magic-like acts and need to be burned. If they aren't burned, the community suffers.

Of course God is real but Harry Potter is not. How does allowing Harry Potter to be read in your house mean you are making a pact with the devil? That's what I don't get.

Show me a real witch then we'll see about burning her. Unless it's this witch:

(Catherine Bell, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Witch)

 

[paulney]

Yep. About 15 years ago I was doing a school exchange and was staying with a family in Minnesota. They were like that - no cartoons for the kids if they had any kind of magic in it (gold fish, 3 wishes, etc), they did not celebrate Halloween, mandatory Sunday school in church and, of course, no internets, since it was loaded with porn that was going to jump out at you as soon as you opened a browser.

 

[Bignate603]

Apparently these people have trouble understanding the definition of fiction...

 

[mmntech]

Show me a real witch then we'll see about burning her.

 

[paulney]

She looks decent in your picture.

 

[IronWing]

Still my very favorite moment in modern politics.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGGAgljengs

Followed by a near second.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqQJB8DR_Zo

 

[mmntech]

Still my very favorite moment in modern politics.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGGAgljengs

Followed by a near second.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqQJB8DR_Zo

Elvira needs to be added to that thread on young looking older women. Damn. Forgot how nice she was. :thumbsup:

 

[preslove]

I dated a witch for a couple months. Neo-pagans are cool. They like to party around fires and make oaths while they drink meed from hollowed out horns.

For solstice, at least