New Zealand Conservative

I've not read the Harry Potter series, however my husband has read the first four books to our oldest boy when he was much younger. We still have them on the shelves and our youngest knows not to read them. Given that the last film on Harry Potter has just been released in New Zealand, I was prompted to buy the book on the left, Harry Potter and the Paganization of Culture , by my oldest who wanted to know more specifically, what was wrong with the Harry Potter series so that he could answer questions from his friends and their parents in conversations. Now that I'm reading Michael O'Brien's book, I find myself almost succumbing to the temptation to wishing that I'd never allowed the books to be read to my son when he was younger and more impressionable.  The thing is, we can't go back in time, but we can undo some damage once we are aware of it, and O'Brien's book is helpful in that respect. In comparison to Christian writers C.S.Lewis and J.R....

Over the weekend, I posted a link to something I had written a couple of years ago on a very large turn around I personally had. It was titled: From Vampires to Christ . Now, I realise just how huge it was. Quoting E. Michael Jones on the subject, O'Brien notes that Vampirism is the anti-thesis of Christianity , "Both Christ and Dracula deal with blood and eternal life … Whereas Christ shed his blood so that his followers could have eternal life, Dracula shed his followers' blood so that he could have eternal life." The entire article is worth reading. It deals with the increasing allure of evil through popular culture, especially books, television programmes and films. “Unprecedented cultural phenomena such as the Twilight series, Harry Potter and Phillip Pullman’s Dark Materials series represent a sliding scale of familiarity with evil. It is time for the people of the West to awaken to the fact that we are in the midst of a cultural revolution that is resha...