Polish priest burns Harry Potter books for fear of magic

The Catholic priests of northern Poland have engraved a number of books in books they consider to be sinners, but he has included a book of the famous Harry Potter series.

The group, known as the SMS of the Paradise Foundation, has posted Facebook images of the fire of books in the city of Kushalin.

There was also a statue of Phil and a tribal mask burning on the pile of books.

The group justified the book's fire with Bible quotes condemning the magic.

The group sends Christian messages by SMS.

"We obey the word," says the publication in Polish on Facebook.

"Many of those who practiced magic collected their books and burned them in front of everyone, so they calculated their value and found 50,000 silver coins," says an excerpt from the Acts of the Apostles. cited in the group's Facebook publication.

Another passage from Deuteronomy says: "Burn the images of their gods, do not want to give them money or gold and take them for you, otherwise they will surround you." It's something God hates your Lord.

The Harry Potter books of British author JK Rowling are considered the most popular fiction in history, with over 500 million copies sold worldwide.

Some Christians object that novels take magic at the center of stories, while Harry Potter fights the evil embodied by Lord Voldemort's dark wizard.

The conservative government of law and justice in Poland adopts traditional Catholic values ​​and the Church exerts a considerable influence on Polish society.

But last month, the church published a report documenting the sexual violence of children by approximately 400 Polish priests between 1990 and 2018.

Some commentators on the group's Facebook page have expressed disdain for the fire of priests.

"I did not meet anyone who was raped, killed and stolen in the name of Harry Potter, but in the name of the Bible, yes, that's bad news, gentlemen!"

Another commentator quotes the German poet Heinrich Hein, who wrote in 1823: "Where books are burned, in the end, people will be burned too".

The quote from Hein is considered a prophecy because the Nazis made an important offer to burn so-called "degenerate" books in the 1930s, including books by Jewish writers, and the Nazis quickly burned victims Jewish.