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To: geode00 who wrote (146969)	11/12/2008 7:37:15 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Is Harry Potter religious? If you mean the charecter, he's fictional. Not a good example. If you mean the books, no they aren't a religion. If you mean believing he's real (or believing that woodland trolls or star trek characters are real) well you could call it a mistake, or muddled thinking, or a delusion, but its not religion. If there was any doubt (and I don't see any) that would make it a borderline case, I said for the most part what's religion and what is not, is clear, not every single case. Certainly you wouldn't have some people saying that belief in Harry Potter's real existence is a religion, while others call the lack of belief in Harry Potter religion. Have you seen those Victoria's Secret commercials on the tube? The TV commercials. I would not call them pornography. At that seems pretty clear to me. But even if you want to say they are, or its unclear, no one would call not having those commercials on the TV would be pornography. As for judges and their interpretations, they to often don't really try to interpret the actual law in question but rather try to declare that the law is such that it will produce the results they think would be good, or just, or fair. Changing the law in that way is properly the domain of the legislature not the courts. Humpty Dumpy courts where the law means whatever the courts say it means aren't a good idea. wordspy.com