Tamaki warns of 'demonic' Harry Potter

According to Bishop Brian Tamaki, Harry Potter is a tool to recruit people toward evil. Photo:...
According to Bishop Brian Tamaki, Harry Potter is a tool to recruit people toward evil. Photo: ODT files
New warnings by Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki include the perils of Harry Potter and that the hit children's character lures young people into the "demonic world."

In the latest book released by the church leader, Bishop Tamaki has also delivered a new chapter on the Kaikoura earthquake saga - and that he predicted the 7.8 magnitude quake, which killed two people.

A collection of four books, dubbed Revelatory Notes by Bishop Brian Tamaki, are being sold by Destiny for $60.

Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter. Photo: supplied
Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter. Photo: supplied

One of them, Demons in my House, contains warnings about fictional wizard Harry Potter as well as observations about the obese and unemployed, and claims about sexually-transmitted diseases.

According to Bishop Tamaki, Harry Potter is a tool to recruit people toward evil.

Sex is also raised, as he writes: "Sexually transmitted diseases would not exist if people did not have sex before marriage and remained faithful to their own spouse."

Sexually-transmitted diseases are not only transmitted through intercourse, but can be transferred through blood, mucous membranes and contact with infected skin.

Bishop Tamaki also questions New Zealand's obesity problem and why so many unemployed people are overweight, saying those who claim state benefits should be "skinny".

Last weekend he released his latest book Sons of Thunder in conjunction with a conference for a church project called "Man-Up" - an initiative focused on tackling family violence, depression, obesity, addiction and suicide.

Priced at $30 it contains more details from Bishop Tamaki about the saga which erupted from claims that earthquakes are caused by gays, sinners and murderers.

According to him, his November 13 sermon - the day before the devastating Kaikoura quake - foretold the quake was coming.

"The earthquake that struck midnight Sunday, the 13th of November 2016 was warned of that Sunday morning at 10:45am, during the Sunday morning church service of Destiny Church Auckland, NZ - that person was me! It was not a prepared or planned message at all - but came at an 'inspired moment' before the sermon," he says in the new book.

Prime Minister John Key has criticised Bishop Tamaki's quake sermon as "ridiculous" and "just madness", while an Auckland vicar, the Reverend Helen Jacobi, said the bishop's comments are "completely illogical" and compared them to blaming sin for child cancer.

Destiny Church declined comment when approached by the Herald on Sunday.