this really knocked me for a loop

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And it throws an interesting light on JK Rowling's own understanding of Christianity. In this article, she claims that the HP series is basically Christian. But she also claims - read the last three paragraphs - that the current Pope belongs to "the lunatic fringe" of Christianity. I'm afraid that what we have here, however incredible it may seem, is a survival, in the twenty-first century, of that English pathology that led nineteenth-century religious writers to call Catholicism "sectarian"; the ecclesiastical version of the "Fog in the Channel, Continent cut off" mentality.

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Re: essay on JKR

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>blushes<
I haven't read all the classics by a long shot. I do know how to make use of what I know, which may make it sound as if I knew more than I really do. (If you want really terrifying learning, try atheneglaukopis, for instance.) But reading the classics should be a pleasure, not a duty, and you should do it because you enjoy it. Most of them would be very disappointed otherwise.