In article <6-OdnWczVNfbqT_cRVn-vg@comcast.com> "Chas" <chasclementsSPOOF@comcast.net> writes:
"Cary Kittrell" <cary@afone.as.arizona.edu> wrote
Wicca and witches started as fiction? Make this one up as well, or did
you have something specific in mind?
Actually, it started during that neo-romantic celtic revival period in the
late nineteenth century- one of those loopy englishmen with too much time
and money on his hands.
"Wicca and witches". You're right to within a within a century of the actual origin
of that silly Wicca business (1930). But Gardiner's works were not novels or sagas
or any other type of storytelling understood by both author and reader to be pleasant
fiction and nothing more. Harry Potter most clearly is.
And witches proper go much further back. Assuming you believe what your Bible says.
Atheism became the state religion in the USSR, which
Atheism started out as a a work of fiction?
Yes; if God is a fiction, active non-belief is even sillier.
We are talking about fictional sagas here, specifically Harry Potter.
Frank segued into a rant about atheism. so I'm asking what novel
or short story spawned atheism.
Do we need to be on guard against the forces of "A Midsummer Night's
Dream",
"Cujo", the Oz series, the "Amityville Horror", and H.P. Lovecraft as
well?
'we' who?
That would be all the `we' who on this thread were solemnly advised
that Harry Potter and Pokemon are religions.
-- cary
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