Hannah Stoddard – Harry Potter vs. Joseph Smith: Debunking the Magic Worldview
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Hannah Stoddard – Harry Potter vs. Joseph Smith: Debunking the Magic Worldview
Actors: Hannah Stoddard
Genres / Categories: April 2023 Expo
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I enjoyed this presentation very much, and learned a lot on the history and background of the Harry Potter books.
Writing and reading fantasy stories, using your imagination is not wrong, and stories are meant to highlight and teach principles that are true. What might be the difference of reading the books and participating (in the case of many early early leaders of the Church) in Freemasonry, as it contained symbols and performances that have been corrupted? Any child (and many an adult) has fantasies of the dishes cleaning themselves. That doesn’t mean it necessarily worships this imaginary power. The early Church Leaders also recognized that freemasonry had elements of truth, but they didn’t worship it.
People worship all kinds of things or persons, even can worship Joseph Smith (but then they don’t understand him), or the current prophet (idem). But none of that is any good, because we should only worship (the correct idea of) God our Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ.
I think also there is value in teaching children (age appropriate) there is a counterfeit of Priesthood Power that exists and people can absolutely abuse that.