I understand you being a skeptic, it is now out there in the front of everyone and believing in it would seem as fatastical as believing superman is real.
Ok, Harry potter is feared by may christians because they are afraid for a couple reasons.
1. The bible states to have nothing to do with Witchcraft or tarro cards or Divination or the like.
2.They are afraid that they're kids will get into witchcraft by reading about it even in a fantacy novel.
I Believe that if you have raised your kids and given them to God the kids will always come back one way or another it's more a matter of time then trying to force them into a place you want them.
kids will find any way to rebel from they're parents and if you have taught them and you let them explore, within reason of course then they will have nothing to rebel against.
I'm sorry if I sounded angry with you curious, I did not mean to come across that way, I appologize.

Sorry, I left out the D.
Live{d} in, I now live just outside the city 30 to 45 mins. away

Curious, hhmmmm I would not say it is fantacy in the least, it does exsist, Curses and other such things, demons do bidding to a point making ailments and such, it cannot affect Christians unless God allows it. it is even said that if we are cursed by an enimy it will go back to the person who sent it seven fold.
We do not fight against flesh and blood but POWERS and principalities.
There are very strong powers out there which is why we should always pray but please do not underestimate or mistake it for some Harry Potter Novel of some fictional thing.
My city is consittered one of the biggest Witchcraft cities in the usa and you can feel a difference when you leave and then comeback from traviling, you feel this heaavyness that covers your entire being.

That's actually funny.

But in all seriousness tho, Good can still be good without evil, we just wouldn't realise that evil even exsists or think about it if only good exsisted.
Would you want sap made from cancer?
as long as it tastes good right? LOL

Please Don't get to nasty because I am just stating how a christian Views magic.
{at least this one}

It really doesn't matter what kind of magic anyone does, White, Black, Chaos or any other of the such, it all comes from one source anyway so it really doesn't matter how you use it, the fact that it is being used is my point.
If you tap a tree and get the sap out, some of it you use as a topping on pancakes {Good} and others you use to dump on your friends head as a prank {Bad}.
no matter which way you use it good or bad it is still tapped from the tree.
I know some of you will hate me for this and I am not trying to Judge you because it is between you and God, I am just stating my knowlege of how magic works in a spirit relm "christianesk" way.
If the devil is the tree, it won't matter how you use magic because it all comes from one evil tree.
Do you really think that He will let you see it comes from him?
If evil looked like evil we would stay away from it but since it looks harmless and beautiful people gravitate to it like a bug to a bugzapper.

There is only ONE thing I san say Despite all what you claim as similar findings....
I have seen Hell with my own two eyes, Demons walking the earth, felt God pick me up in His arms and show me my city in complete darkness, walking around lost!
I have never done drugs or on anything, was not drunk, and was fully aware of my surroundings.
Noone can ever tell me something is "similar" and Have me believe it because I have seen the truth with my own 2 eyes, how can you denigh something someone has seen and experienced themselves?

Why do so many Get this wrong?
Man kind had always sacrofised {Pardon the spelling} a pure animal, The Blood of God was 1.stop killing animals 2. So we would be able to speak to God.
Before Jesus Died to pay for our sins only the high Priests could go to the temple and see the face of God, when Jesus Died it Rent{Tore}the temples devider in two.
It would not have been possable to have "passed out" as Wench had said because of a few things.
1. He was up on the cross hanging with basicly Railroad spikes thought his hands his feet would have been broken to put nails through both his feet causing him to shift weight up on his arms and becoming very exsausted in a short time.
2.When Jesus Died He had his heart Punctured with spear{s}when they stabbed him in the heart it is written that Blood and water flowed.

For blood and water to flow like that would be if he had a heart attack before they Stabbed his heart.
He was hemorrhaging Blood from his skin meaning that he was bleeding internally.

So he could not have just simply passed out and then just Got up and even walked anywhere just simply because, even if he did pass out he would have died from blood loss alone and a puncture wound to the heart.

Christian means to be "Christ like" What some fail to see is that just because you go to church does not mean you are a christian.
It is a sad fact there are hipocrits Everywhere, People want to feel safe, and yet they have NO relationship with God at all because if they did they would not act the way they act.
Go to church on sunday and swear, get drunk, go to strip clubs exc.
It is very sad to say that in the dark ages most were uneducated and most churches the Bible was only read by the preists, so when the crusades came along they went on with too much zeal and not enough knowlege and training on how to be proper christian witness'.
As far as the witch Burnings are concerned, they took things out of context that evil must be purified with fire.
Don't really know where in the Bible that hails from but also remember that they had really dumb tests to see if people were a witch.
Tie a person to a rock and if they rise they're a witch and if not we pray for an innocent soul.
People are people and every religion has its overly zelious to Convert others.
Now the problem is what I had brought up before which is people who think going to church will make them a christian and they dont have to follow the rules.
so because people in a church are doing things and not acting christlike it turns off people who honestly want to seek God.
I have had trouble with a church I went to and I don't blame God one bit because it is the people's actions that are hurting me Not God.
My mother told me not to loose faith in God and I told her I would never loose faith in God, Just my faith in people.

Ok, I was raised in church but made up my own mind by searching and looking at many aspects of different religions.
I have had many times I have seen with my own eyes the spirit relm, I have seen Hell with my own eyes {Not like the movies by any means nor had I seen/read it anywhere else}
I have seen demons standing and felt the heavyness in my city, I have seen Visions and felt God surround me.
I have prayed and Gotten what I prayed for through no result of my own ability.
I have seen Aitheist's who were the farthest people from God be touched and changed.
As far as following His rules or He'll send you to Hell, that is simply not true; God has set up a guiedline for us to live by, God Made hell for Satan and his demons, by following Satan it is logical that you in reality send yourself to Hell.

Also let me clear a few things up.
Ghosts are Demons called familiar Spirits, It is a Demon that Follows a person around for they're life and knows them well {Is Familiar with them} Then when the person Dies, the Demon takes a Ghost like form telling phychics or others of the like all information that is asked.
Moving chairs/objects or speaking "Truth" of what only one person might know.
When I talk about this, many times people will look at me in shock or not believe me.
Funny how they can Believe in Ghosts but not in Demons.

I wrote this a while back and I thought it would be ok to post something copywrited under my name...lol

Beautiful artwork under my skin lyes my tattoo I've had since before I was born.
It looks like different things to different people everywhere I go.
The tattoo shows under my skin shows through the expresstions on my face, look into my eyes encased on display for the masses.
The tones and colors never fade in me, my tattoo accossted by the artist who put it in my body.
Beautiful work art could never have; the painting by numbers touched by Gods own hand.
tattoo under my skin as reflection, a pool of ink like blood I look into the water.
There I see it tattooed under my skin, the artist is God and the tattoo is My Soul.