Posted: Sep 11, 2013 3:48 am
Varangian wrote:It's the same kind of idiocy as back in the 1980's, when religious nuts believed D&D rulebooks could be used to summon demons. I guess it is easy to think that, when one has swallowed the stuff in a book of myths hook, line and sinker. To those people, prayer has power, and as a consequence, made up spells in the HP books must work, too.
These would be the same people who peddled the tiresome shit about playing heavy metal records backwards. Another manifestation of the same retarded predilection for mediaeval superstition.
I'd love to wheel these three ditzes in front of a television camera, and say to the straight, "Ok, you think that fantastic magic entities can be conjured up, simply by reciting some odd phrases contained within books that were marketed as fiction. I think we should put this to empirical test, don't you? Let's see if these fantastic magic entities actually appear, shall we?