http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:33:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23717/harry-potter-medal http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23717/harry-potter-medal#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:05:30 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23717 A memoir by George W Bush's former speechwriter claims that Bush administration officials objected to giving JK Rowling a presidential medal of freedom on the grounds that her Harry Potter books "encouraged witchcraft".

Latimer, whose memoir Speech-Less: Tales of a White House Survivor was published last week by Crown in the US, says that the "narrow thinking" of "people in the White House" led them "to actually object to giving the author JK Rowling a presidential medal because the Harry Potter books encouraged witchcraft".

See also: Harry Potter is converting Christian critics, Christian themes abound in Potter and How the boy wizard won over religious critics -- and the deeper meaning theologians now see in his tale]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23717/harry-potter-medal/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19703/harry-potter-7 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19703/harry-potter-7#comments Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:36:11 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19703/harry-potter-7 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19703/harry-potter-7/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19694/harry-potter-6 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19694/harry-potter-6#comments Sat, 20 Oct 2007 12:39:49 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19694/harry-potter-6 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19694/harry-potter-6/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19677/harry-potter-5 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19677/harry-potter-5#comments Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:14:49 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19677/harry-potter-5 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19677/harry-potter-5/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18916/harry-potter-3 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18916/harry-potter-3#comments Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:34:51 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18916/harry-potter-3 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18916/harry-potter-3/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18876/harry-potter-2 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18876/harry-potter-2#comments Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:00:40 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18876/harry-potter-2 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18876/harry-potter-2/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18768/harry-potter http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18768/harry-potter#comments Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:29:17 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18768/harry-potter http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18768/harry-potter/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/16885/final-harry-potter-title-revealed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/16885/final-harry-potter-title-revealed#comments Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:26:27 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/16885/final-harry-potter-title-revealed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/16885/final-harry-potter-title-revealed/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/15682/harry-potter-and-the-mystery-of-an-academic-obsession http://www.religionnewsblog.com/15682/harry-potter-and-the-mystery-of-an-academic-obsession#comments Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/15682/harry-potter-and-the-mystery-of-an-academic-obsession/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/15128/why-harry-potter-must-finally-die http://www.religionnewsblog.com/15128/why-harry-potter-must-finally-die#comments Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/15128/why-harry-potter-must-finally-die/feed 0