Catholic school bans 'Harry Potter' books because they contain 'actual curses and spells'

[JM_]

This one is just too good to pass up. Can you really call this place a school if they are this obtuse? 

 

 

Catholic school bans 'Harry Potter' books because they contain 'actual curses and spells'

 

WENN - WORLD ENTERTAINMENT NEWS NETWORK

Updated: September 3, 2019

 

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The Harry Potter books at a private Catholic school in Nashville, Tennessee have been removed from library shelves on the advice of exorcists.

 

St. Edward Catholic school’s pastor Rev. Dan Reehil claims author J.K. Rowling’s books contain “actual curses and spells”, and therefore they’re not suitable for kids.

In an email to parents, obtained by The Tennessean, Reehil explains he consulted with exorcists, who recommended he remove the books.

He wrote: “The curses and spells used in the books are actual curses and spells; which when read by a human being risk conjuring evil spirits into the presence of the person reading the text.”

 

The school pastor reportedly sent the email after a parent asked why her daughter couldn’t find a Harry Potter book in the library.

 

https://vancouversun.com/news/world/catholic-school-bans-harry-potter-books-because-they-contain-actual-curses-and-spells/wcm/325a864b-3350-49e4-9b31-5c1a7c91b1fc

[inane]

Organized religion is really all just so dumb.

[JM_]

1 minute ago, inane said:

Organized religion is really all just so dumb.

Its really something to see. But its also scary to see it become so aligned with right wing politics over the last decade. 

 

I feel bad for the kids at this place, years of therapy await. 

[DJSkingz]

It is used as a means to control the masses. Some of the worst atrocities committed by the human race have been done in the name of religion.

[PhillipBlunt]

Wow. Really?

[PhillipBlunt]

Just now, DJSkingz said:

It is used as a means to control the masses. Some of the worst atrocities committed by the human race have been done in the name of religion.

[NUCKER67]

Well, they'll have none of that nonsense. Nope, gotta keep the focus on the really old man who lives in the clouds. lol

[Pears]

When Harry Potter books are banned before guns

[HerrDrFunk]

1 minute ago, Pears said:

When Harry Potter books are banned before guns

That's American AF. 

[JM_]

1 minute ago, HerrDrFunk said:

That's American AF. 

where are the right wing campus free speecher's on this one? 

[Tre Mac]

26 minutes ago, Jimmy McGill said:

The curses and spells used in the books are actual curses and spells; which when read by a human being risk conjuring evil spirits into the presence of the person reading the text.

 

 

 

 

 

Ward was probably the best 1 show character on KOTH.

 

 

Edited September 3, 2019 by Tre Mac

[PhillipBlunt]

16 minutes ago, Jimmy McGill said:

where are the right wing campus free speecher's on this one? 

Hiding in a closet scared that they've been hexed.

[redhdlois]

How about banning pedophile priests?

[xereau]

Quote

 

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance” 

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

 

 

[Jaku]

[Tortorella's Rant]

Wasn't this a story like, 10 years ago. 

[Lancaster]

I guess this Reverend is trying to keep up with those imans in Saudi Arabia, lol.  

[bishopshodan]

Wait, What?

 

They contain 'actual curses and spells' ?!

 

I'm off to Chapters book store right now!

 

Got a few losers at work that I wouldn't mind turning into frogs/

[48MPHSlapShot]

sOmEtHiNg sOmEtHiNg SoMeThInG rIgHt WiNgErS aRe StOoPiD!1

 

Way to keep things nice and partisan, OP. Can't have people of different political ideologies getting along too well.

Edited September 3, 2019 by 48MPHSlapShot

[Gurn]

28 minutes ago, bishopshodan said:

Wait, What?

 

They contain 'actual curses and spells' ?!

 

I'm off to Chapters book store right now!

 

Got a few losers at work that I wouldn't mind turning into frogs/

Wizard service:

give someone the flu           $250

give someone a perpetual rain cloud      $1500

Turn someone into a frog   $5,000 plus materials/shop supplies