Severus Snape, Redeemed or Damned?

As my family and I were traveling home we made some shopping stops while driving through a large city in Michigan. I grabbed a weekend regional paper and immediately went to the Religion section (yes, I do dearly miss actually having a paper that HAS a religion section). In the process of reading, an advertisement for a local Unitarian Universalist "church" caught my eye.

Its sermon title for Sunday was "Severus Snape, Redeemed or Damned?". Now, to be fair I really shouldn't be picking on Unitarian Universalists, since they are so far outside of anything that resembles Christianity. But have things really gotten this bad for the group? We have all heard about churches that preach out of Time magazine or the US News and World Report, but when did Harry Potter become a text for a sermon? Can't the folks at All Souls Community Church (the Unitarian/Universalist congregation in question) find a suitable Hindu text? Perhaps something from the Koran? What about select readings from the latest Joel Olsteen book? At least they should preach from something that has some semblance of religion to it (oh, that would probably rule out Joel Olsteen).

I did find one thing humorous in their ad (I wish I had a picture). They make special mention of the "amble free parking provided". I sure there is "ample parking". When you feed your flock fluff, eventually people just stop showing up. They can get the same thing at the Country Club--and without the singing!

---Oh, and by the way, I never made it to Baker Book House. My wife wanted to go to Barnes & Noble instead (which is a horrible bookstore). However, I did relieve the pain of being in a bookstore with a bad floorplan by reading a little T.S. Eliot. I rebelled against the system by putting the book back on the wrong self when I was finished.