Today my daughter showed me a humorous meme which said that one must be 18 to vote and 21 to buy liquor, but then it showed a ouija board and said that at 8 you can talk with demons for low price of $14.99. (If you’re not familiar, the Ouija board has the letters and numbers printed on it, as well as “yes” and “no” and sometimes other things, and participants use a planchette with their hands on it that moves over the letters and is supposedly used for communicating with the spirits of the dead.) The meme is funny as a joke, of course, but it does bring up the curious subject that people who object to ouija boards being a means of (accidentally) talking with demons usually object to them for the wrong reasons.
In my experience, at least, the people who object to Ouija boards usually object as if they are magical items that allow a person to talk to demons in a way that they couldn’t without the board. They’re never explicit, but it’s as if they think the demon would say to the person who is open to talking with them, “True, I am a spirit of much greater intelligence than you who, because I hate God and his creation, wishes to lead you to misery and destruction, but you’re only trying to talk to me without a planchette, so I will say nothing to you.”
The problem with Ouija boards is not that it is a special device which has the power to attract demons or give them any special access to a person. If you take the idea of demons seriously even slightly, they’re always around and trying to talk to us, often by things like stirring up feelings or suggesting memories to us at inopportune times.
The problem with Ouija boards is that the human being is listening.
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Demons. Dear oh dear!
1. How can perfect angels rebel when rebelliousness is an imperfection?
2. In 2 kings 19:35, a single angel slaughters 185,000 people. That’s way worse than anything done by demons. Why do angels kill more people than demons do? Is it the same reason God kills more people than the Devil does?
3. In Mark 5:13, why does Jesus incorrectly think mental illness is caused by demons? How can immaterial demons be killed by killing the material creatures they (somehow) inhabit? If it’s good for Jesus to kill some demons he randomly runs into, why not kill all demons? How can there be 2,000 demons inhabiting one man? (Just how many angels rebelled, anyway?) Why kill 2,000 pigs unnecessarily? That is cruel by definition. In today’s prices 2,000 pigs are worth about $500,000. That would result in some very angry pig farmers, an economically destroyed region and a giant health hazard. This is an especially stupid and implausible Bible story.
4. Science can detect neutrinos, which can travel through a light year of solid lead without interacting with anything, yet it can’t detect demons which continually meddle in human affairs?
5. If demons can meddle with our thoughts, how do you know your belief in God isn’t a false belief planted by demons for nefarious purposes? In fact, how do you know God is the good guy in the story?
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