Blog 9

Select a popular culture artifact (company, celebrity, brand, sports team, etc.) that you can discuss in terms of "religification."  How has this artifact been "religified"?  How do people discuss this in reglious terms?  What people follow this particular "religion"?  Who are the people who directly oppose this popular culture "religion"?

The one that currently comes to mind is the "religion" of Harry Potter.   Even before they started making the movies, people would stand in line for hours to get the new book.   When people had the holy scroll they would sit and everything else would cease.    Anyone who grew up in the late nineties to early two thousands knows of and understands who Harry Potter is and where he comes from.    The last book has been compared to the bible.    Some people claim that the stories of the bible are being told through the Harry Potter series.    Good usually prevails over evil which is one of the bible's main messages.   Dumbledore has been compared to God and Harry being the Son of Christ, but it has also been said that Dumbledore is the self sacrificing Jesus and Harry is where the rest of civilisation should be, a disciple if you will.   Like Christianity, Harry Potter is not accepted by everyone.  The "true Christians" view Harry Potter as evil.   Due to the subject matter of witchcraft and wizardry the Harry Potter series is evil and shows signs of devil worshiping.
         People have many different outlooks and opinions of life and things in life, this is one reason that there are so many different religions.   No one can agree.   Harry Potter is similar in the way people look at it.   One person can look at a situation in the book and see that good trumps evil and therefore it is a good thing for people to read.   Someone else may see that in the end evil is not completely destroyed so there is a chance that it will come back and take over and therefore it is bad.   There are to many people with to many thoughts to say that this way is right and that way is wrong.   Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and may do with it as they wish.   If someone sees Harry Potter as something to believe in and model their life after the good morals that are presented throughout the books and movies than who are we to say that that is wrong?    Who cares what someone believes in as long as it is keeping them happy and benefitting the common good or at the very least not harming it?    There are too many things in this world to worry about as it is, why care about whether someone chooses to follow a fiction book as a role model when there are so many other role models that could be leading children to drugs and violence?