For The People Who Make My Butt Hurt ...

Lord hear our prayer ...

... and then deliver us from these crazies!

Many people, including some Christian parents and even a number of Christian writers and cultural commentators, claim this best-selling series by British author J.K. Rowling is harmless and even contains some morally positive messages. Meanwhile, Christian author Connie Neal has written a book called The Gospel According to Harry Potter, in which she contends that the sorcery so many Christians condemn in Harry Potter is only a literary device and that the books contain biblical messages that can be used to teach children about good and evil.

But Tim Todd protests that Christians who believe these wildly successful children's books about witchcraft and sorcery are really Christian allegories are being led astray. And in hopes of disabusing kids and adults alike, he is offering an entertaining, biblically sound alternative to Harry Potter in comic book form called Harry Polarity and the Sinister Sorcery Satire.

"The purpose of this book," the minister notes, "is to inform our children, our teachers, and our parents about the dangers of Harry Potter. We do it in a fictional story that is phenomenal. It is a super, super sharp story." What the comic book does, he adds, is put scriptural truths up against the wrong spiritual nature of Rowling's series.

Many parents consider the Harry Potter stories to be a positive contribution to children's literature because they get many young readers, sometimes even reluctant readers, excited about reading. But Todd points out that these books also expose children to a world without any belief in God, where sorcery and witchcraft are presented as a neutral path, good and viable in the right hands.

"The things that concern me about the Harry Potter series," the preacher and Christian publisher notes, "are things like sacrificing animals and emphasizing power, regardless of good or evil. Or offering up blood sacrifices, and things like boiling what seems to be a baby alive in a cauldron, or being possessed by demons -- these are not things that we want to have our children subjected to."

Todd says the Hairy Polarity comic book presents uncompromised scriptural truth in a format kids will enjoy, and it also includes a complete presentation of the gospel. For that reason, he believes it an ideal alternative to Harry Potter, offering kids and their parents something much better to read.