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Word just in: the world is flat. Moreover, the sun is 32 miles across, and it is 3,000 miles from Earth, the moon being 3200 miles away.

Also in tonight's news a squadron of Vietnamese Potbelly Pigs flew from Little Rock to Denver for the Republican Convention. But worst of all children and adults who have read the Harry Potter books or have seen the movies made from them are convening a vast coven in New York City in preparation to take over the world by witchcraft, led by Potter himself now that Voldemort is dead.

Sadly, we have people in this country and other civilized places that might believe that. They are the ones, fundamental Christians mostly, stamping the Potter books and movies with the curse of witchcraft and trying forbid all children and adults from reading the books or seeing the movies. Especially if the children do, say the fundamentalists, they will benot can bewill be made into witches and wizards and follow the dark arts themselves. Some say J. K. Rowling, the creator of Harry Potter, is the Anti-Christ, and that her sole purpose is to steal the minds of our children and establish the kingdom of Satan.

How can anyone believe such rubbish in the 21st Century? They can believe it because the Bible tells them so, and because they have to have a reason why everything, including their children, is going to hell in a hand basket because it couldn't be their fault. It's Rowling's fault. It's the devil feeding them drugs. It's soap opera with their uncontrolled sex on the screen. It's rampant communism leading them down the garden path. It's liberalism turning their minds. It's conservatism making them cold and heartless. It's rock and roll, hip hop, rapit is anything but us, the adults responsible for our children's upbringing.

Denigration of witches is the product of our Judeo-Christian culture. Condemned by both the Old and New Testaments, witchcraft and sorcery have motivated atrocities against thousands, maybe millions, or people for millennia. Anyone who was different could be classified as a witch and be hunted and treated abominably, testified to by our history of Jim Crow and legislated segregation, the Salem witch trials, or the fight Wiccans have had recently to have Wicca recognized by the Federal Government as a religion with all the right and privileges there unto.

The classical image of a witch is an ugly old woman hunched over a cauldron in which floats eyes of newts, oil squeezed from rats, blood of zombies, or other such nonsense.

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