Posted: Jan 06, 2017 1:05 pm
by Sendraks
Blackadder wrote:
Exactly. For example, some Catholic clergy got very exercised about children reading Harry Potter books on the grounds that it encouraged belief in "magic" and "sorcery".


Because belief in such things is a direct challenge to the power of the almighty or in the priests themselves, who seem to have a derth of magical powers at their disposal.