I just love to beat that dead horse

Harry Potter is under attack again! Who from this time? From Voldemort? Not until the last book, silly. From illiterate helicopter parents? Nope, surprisingly enough. The Pope? Close. Actually, the latest accusations being levelled at Harry Potter and JK Rowling are being made by Gabriele Amorth. Who is that, you may (and probably will) ask? Well, he is the Pope's Chief Exorcist. Yep. I don't even know what so say. You should read the article where he accuses Harry Potter of bearing "the signature of the king of the darkness, the devil" and condoning "the satanic art" of magic.

Read it yet? Good. What else can be said on the matter? Harry Potter, just like all major works of a fantastical nature, should be taken with a grain of salt. Seriously, it has it's own genre: fiction. Fiction means, for the more feeble-minded among us, means 'not real.' It upsets me a little when people who couldn't imagine their way out of a bishop's mitre attack such a clever work of creative prose. So my thoughts turned to the man making such ignorant bleats into the infosphere.

Such a downright convivial spirit must be researched, so I looked up our mutual friend on Wikipedia. Now, I am a Christian and do believe in powers that cannot be seen but to have claimed to have 30,000 exorcisms under your belt seems a bit lofty, even for an 81 year-old geriatric spiritual behemoth. And as for Hitler, Stalin, and Lenin being possessed by the Devil? Well, I never knew 'em but I have my doubts, and I'll leave it at that. I did get kick at how his favorite movie is, of course, The Exorcist. I suppose that's sort of like Bob Rogetsky, accountant, loving that summer blockbuster The CPA 2: Filing Your Tax Returns for the Last Time. Anyway, I'm out. Oh, and this one goes out to Our friend Gabby Amorth:






Just another day in the life, eh?