I’m not really sure the Harry Potter novels are reflective of our fascination with spirituality as…

…nd fancy, many in modernity have moved away from faith traditions and adopted the term “spiritual.” Indeed, our fascination with the spiritual even permeates to pop culture. The most popular book of the last decade involves a young wizard using everything from magic to talking hats to defeat evil in a world the rest of the populace is unaware even exists. We’ve found Harry Potter so enticing we throw parties as adults where we dress up like school chil…

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I’m not really sure the Harry Potter novels are reflective of our fascination with spirituality as much as it is a more juvenile desire to wave wands around and imagine they make things go bang

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That could be argued, sure, Megan. But what about our fascination with the superhero genre who walk around like gods among men with powers we wish we had? Consider also that Avatar also introduced the world to a fantastical new realm people wanted…

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