Dear Gibo,

I'm so sorry that you classify the Harry Potter series
as evil, as "witchcraft literature."

When fantasy becomes the battleground of Good and Evil,
as it does in the novels of such writers as J.R.R. Tolkien,
and J.K. Rowling, it's called high fantasy, a developed
poetic art form which gives meaning to life, enhancing the
real world, leading to the solution of problems and the
development of characters to maturity.

What is it that has made, "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the
Rings," and 'The Harry Potter," books the best-selling ones
that they are? In our troubled times, children and adults
need Tolkien's gutsy fictional dragons and Potter's magic to
encourage the expansion of the mind and nourish and keep
alive a sense of wonder, all essential ingredients in any
worthwhile education.

As the author Lloyd Alexander says: "Fantasy presents the
world as it should be...sometimes heart-breaking but never
hopeless, if we listen carefully it may tell us what someday
we may be capable of achieving..."

However, you believe what you want. I'm just sorry that you're
depriving your children in their development as children, as people,
and as readers. Because fantasy, of all the genres of writing for
young readers, offers the greatest challenge, and the greatest
rewards both to its authors and its readers.

Genesis! (Smart ares,s! No EVO NO! just leave it alone.):) They had smart people back then too you know,( I think back then they called them scientist,s)or was an older name used:) just the same as scientist's make models today!

Q. Can someone explain too me how,or what, in the clearest of explanations of who, wrote genesis and where the information came from.

Q. Why does he not answer us.

Q. Why are things so bad when religion is involved.

Q. What is real truth.

So, scientist's,s wrote the bible! So this must mean, man is god.

Bow to me polycarp! and all is forgiven.:)

EVO

Porky: << CJ.. the problem with admitting error to YOU is that you and Pericles often come in with allegations which are quite_offensive >>

Er, Porky - has it occurred to you that it is your record of posting falsehoods, and your refusal to acknowledge factual error, that generate the comments that you find "quite_offensive"?

I'd suggest that it's your pattern of mendacity, combined with its application to your project of spreading fear and loathing, that is more than a little offensive.

However, to your credit, you've finally admitted to basing one bigoted rant on misinformation. My reply to you is here:

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=2200#48680

Gibo, the thing is, the evidence clearly shows that the bible is
flawed, so why take notice in the first place, apart from religious
addiction, which exists as admitted even by BD and many others.

Ok, it makes you feel great, thats about it. Its your lifestyle
choice, no more.

Farrel Till, an ex preacher of many years, eventually realised how
flawed it was and used to have a website called Errancy. I'm not
sure if he is still going or if age caught up with him, but the
many mistakes, contradictions, flaws etc are discussed in great
detail on his website. Or they were some years ago, when last I
checked.

But even you have to admit that it is flawed, if you have half
a bit of common sense. Now take the flood and Noah etc.

Tell me, when the earth was flooded, what happened to the freshwater
fish?

Did the bible mention Noah doing a quick trip to Australia to
return the koalas, kangaroos etc?

The list is endless.

Oh Yabby, the Noah's Ark story is one of my favourites!
It is just so impossible that I find it incomprehensible that people could actually believe that it happened.

Please tell me, Gibo and Polycarp, that you do not take this story literally!

Yabby, easy-peasy: God gave the fish little oxygen masks that they used for about a year- that's how they survived.

Gibo, not just the Genesis account but there is some worthwhile reading for fundies at http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/donald_morgan/inconsistencies.html

There is what appears to be a balanced article on Science and the Bible at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_the_Bible

Another list of bible inconsistencies at http://www.cs.umd.edu/~mvz/bible/bible-inconsistencies.pdf

And some interesting questions at http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Inconsistencies_in_the_Bible

Gibo the bible is not an historically or scientifically accurate book. Trying to think that it is could really tie you up in knots.

R0bert