Christianity [Theme] Page 1

- Wow - David looked at the bottom of the bottle and seeing that there was no more booze left, he threw it into the thickets - a cool history lesson... but I didn’t remember anything.

Live not as you want, but as God commands. And you see your powerlessness so well in all this, self-reproach arises so easily, and humility follows closely behind it. And the only hope remains in the Grace of God. And this is exactly what is needed.

To put it bluntly and openly, Harry's spiritual life, both in the final chapters of The Deathly Hallows and throughout this four-thousand-plus page epic, is presented as the path of a disciple of Christ. There is no overt preaching in the final Harry novel: yet the story is so rich in specifically Christian references and meanings that to deny them would be to miss a huge, perhaps even the most important, part of the transcendental meaning of these books.

Looking at the monster into which the mutilated and almost soulless Voldemort has become, we see in this story the answer to Christ’s rhetorical question: “What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?” (Mark 8:36).

Incredibly, Rowling has managed to write a coherent and compelling parable about God's judgment on the spiritual qualities of our souls and our ability to love (or the rejection of love) - and this parable delights readers of the postmodern world, encouraging them to strive for purity of heart and accept the defense of sacrificial love. For generations that have developed an impenetrable immunity against any kind of “fire and brimstone preaching,” such an achievement borders on a miracle.

Every soul is a Christian by nature.

In a world where the reality and inevitability of death is often hidden from view, Harry

Readers love Harry

Even if Rowling were an Islamofascist, a Hindu priestess, or a Buddhist hermit, her hands would be tied: an adventure epic written in English and in the English tradition would still come out Christian. It is impossible to cut up one huge carcass of culture into entrecotes, sawing off, say, parliament from religion.

... why does everyone love Harry Potter so much? Believe it or not, the answer is that the transcendental meaning of this book, and especially its Christian content, resonates with the hearts and souls of readers.

On the night before Christmas, all evil spirits rush about the earth.

The scourge of man is imaginary knowledge. This is why the Christian religion so persistently preaches to us ignorance, which is the best basis for faith and obedience.

- I think yes. In any case, I have a sleepless conscience... And besides, more than anything in the world I love a person, a living person, a human soul, more than nature, art, more than anything...

One of the main manifestations of the Matrix program in our reality is the so-called Religion - and not only Christianity, Judaism, Islam and other movements that immediately come to mind when this word is mentioned. I am also referring to religions such as money, politics, the desire to be “successful,” television, the cult of celebrity, and what is supposed to be the “New Age.”