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Pro-Family Advocates Warn of Potter Film's Content, Effect on Children

By Fred Jackson
November 5, 2001

(AgapePress) - More than 10,000 people, many of them children, were on hand in London last night for the world premiere of the movie version of the controversial Harry Potter series. Here in the U.S., pro-family advocates are warning parents the occultic content of the Warner Brothers movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone should not be taken lightly.

When it comes to the world’s definition of what success is today, the Harry Potter book series is a record breaker. According to Baptist Press, a U.S. consumer research survey says more than half of all children between the ages of 6 and 17 have read at least one of the Harry Potter books, and the movie’s premier in the U.S. later this month is expected to follow that trend.

But according to a new video by Jeremiah Films, such literature and films that deal with witchcraft are furnishing not just escapist entertainment for young viewers, but causing an overwhelming interest in the dark arts.

Lindy Beam writes in an article for Focus on the Family about similar concerns. She says any time the dark side of the supernatural world is presented as harmless or even imaginary, there is the danger that children will find out too late that witchcraft is neither. Beam says in a world with an obvious trend toward witchcraft and New Age ideology, parents need to consider the effects that these ideas have on impressionable minds.

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