J.K. Rowling, author of Harry Potter, opened up about her religious beliefs and acknowledged that she has a “vacuum of God’s form” in her mind that she can take to the tomb. She also expressed her opposition to euthanasia and the use of marijuana.
Rowling discussed her changing political beliefs in an X-post published Friday, in response to questions from X users. Towards the end of the post, the 60-year-old author discussed her religious beliefs over the years.
“I’ve been struggling with religious faith since my mid-teens,” she wrote. “It appears that I have a vacuum in my mind in the shape of a god, but I never seem to decide what to do about it.”
“I could probably list at least 20 things that I have changed my mind,” she concluded. “I don’t currently have a single belief that it cannot be changed by clear and concrete evidence, and with the exception of one case, I know what the evidence is.”
Rowling identified “the divine challenge” as an “exception,” explaining that he “don’t know what I have to look at to get firmly down on either side.”
“I think that’s what faith means. I believe without looking at the evidence,” she said. “That’s why I’m probably going to go to the grave by solving that particular personal problem.”
While Rowling’s book series has been controversial in the Christian world, the UK-based magazine Premier Christianity reports that Rowling grew up as an Anglican Church and is a member of the Church of Scotland.
The author has been open in recent years, and has elicited a lot of public backlash due to her opposition to policies that open women-only gender spaces to identified men. Rowling worked on her conversion on the issues she is most passionate about.
“In my early 20s, I believed that gender differences were entirely due to socialization,” she said, stressing that she no longer believed them after reading the research.
Rowling showed that she changed her views on “unilateral nuclear disarmament” and that she also changed the claim that “cannabis was inherently harmless.”
She didn’t go into detail about why she now opposes unilateral nuclear disarmament, but she said that cannabis is seeing “broken chaos” in the mental health of someone nearby.
“I believed in helping me die,” she added. “Mainly because I’m married to a doctor (Neil Murray) who has an eye on the coercion of sick and vulnerable people.”
Critics have long argued that the “right to die” policy, which allows terminal patients to choose suicide-assisted, reveals the possibility that families and others could abuse their loved ones and force them to pursue suicide-assisted. They say such policies “feels that they are putting a burden on friends and family” to terminal patients.
Rowling has become one of the most vocal opponents of transgender ideology. This attempts to eliminate gender distinctions and argues that the identified men should be treated exactly the same as women, and vice versa.
In 2020, she responded to OPED, published in the headline with the phrase “people who menstruate” as she denounced the avoidance of the word “Women” using nonexistent words such as “I’m sure there were these people’s words,” “Wumben,” “Wimpund,” and “Woomud.”
In another social media post published in 2020, Rowling defended the concept of biological sex. “If gender is not realistic, there is no appeal to same-sex. If gender is not realistic, the reality of women around the world is erased.
Ryan Foley is a reporter for the Christian Post. He can contact ryan.foley@christianpost.com
