Voldemort and Vestments – The Point

Last updated on: March 3, 2017 at 3:33 pm by G. Shane Morris

Voldemort and Vestments – The Point 2017-03-03T15:33:21-04:00 G. Shane Morris

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The_Point_Patheos_Header What’s with progressives and Harry Potter?

Since the election of Donald Trump, many left-wing commentators have likened his administration to the bad guys’ rise in J. K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” novels.

Writing at Mere Orthodoxy, Anglican deacon Bart Gingerich calls this strange. Why? Because though many Christians dislike the stories’ magic elements, the world of “Harry Potter” is deeply conservative—nuclear families, childbearing, church, authority, tradition, and clear lines of morality.

Gingerich thinks the reason progressives like “Harry Potter” so much is that it offers the trappings of tradition without the obligations of doctrine. Progressives, like all humans, are religious creatures.

This also explains why mainline liberal churches still embrace traditional vestments, and the smells and bells. For them, it’s a kind of dress-up that allows those who’ve given up historic doctrines to still feel connected to transcendence. But not even a magic wand can turn empty liturgy, fancy clothes, or a children’s book into legitimate substitutes for real faith and real truth.

Progressives, Harry Potter, and Little Platoons
Bart Gingerich | Mere Orthodoxy | February 22, 2017

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