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Notes:
Not surprisingly, I have much more to say about our topic from last week–that will appear at some future time– but what I had wrote last week as an “action item” I felt warranted its own weekly.
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Remember, We Stay 100 Miles Away from the Occult
The headline says it all here.
After the Charlie Kirk assassination, there was some coverage of the women’s website Jezebel publishing an article one or two days before with the headline, “We Paid Some Etsy Witches to Curse Charlie Kirk.” The WSJ reported that the article was amended. Jezebel took down the content and, to its great credit, condemned political violence and Kirk’s shooting. It’s especially commendable because it’s not universal to condemn political violence these days! Eek.
The WSJ quoted from the article:
The author of the article, whose byline has since been removed, said in the piece that she was “not calling on dark forces to cause him harm.”
“I just want him to wake up every morning with an inexplicable zit,” she wrote.
This is a screenshot of the original, from reporting after it was amended.
You know what that quote made me do? Resolve to pray and sacrifice for the author of that article. Most likely, she believed that buying a “curse” from a witch would have no effect, so much so that she could joke about it.
In no way do I think that those curses led to Kirk’s murder. But I am very worried about the soul of the author. That poor young woman is joking — or perhaps not—about the occult. She is joking about the effect of the “curses,” and wanting it to be mild, like a zit, rather than an assassination.
But it’s not a joke, and not just because a person died. The occult is no joking matter.
I am saying, not for the first time, that everyone should stay 100 miles away from anything occult. Do not even get close.
After the fact, Jezebel called this a “satire” piece, so we don’t know if the author actually did pay Etsy witches. Based on what I’ve read of the article, (but this is only second hand, from this source: Variety described it in detail) the author quotes the self-described witches and actually engaged with them.
Hear me: I truly pray that she did not. But if she did, she is in spiritual danger, and I am praying and sacrificing for her today (the day I am writing this) at the very least.
[Also, this is not the first time that I have said this, but perhaps the first time in print: Jezebel is the worst possible name for a feminist website. Just take literally one minute to read 1 Kings 21 (Naboth’s vineyard). This is NOT a person to be emulated. There’s no “taking back” her name because she was pretty awful through and through. SMH.
If we are looking for Biblical names for a women’s website, how about Judith for a website name? How about Esther for a website name? Get with it, people! Okay, rant over]
The occult is not to be avoided because it is fake, but because it is real. There are real, true spiritual enemies to human souls. Opening oneself to the occult, whether it’s a ouija board or tarot cards, or going on Etsy to purchase spells, or going to psychics, is more spiritually dangerous than most people realize. I hope all of us reading this know, and so just a reminder again: stay 100 miles away from anything occult.
If someone, even in jest, wants to play a ouija board, or talks about spells or invites you to participate in any way, you can easily say, “Nah, I don’t do that.” It’s that simple.
“There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils,” write C.S. Lewis in his preface to The Screwtape Letters. “One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them.”
Remember, we have no need to be concerned or afraid, because we belong to the Lord. And if you have another minute today, consider a tiny sacrifice for the young woman who wrote the article.
Interesting/Notable:
We all need some wholesome, lovely content as a palate cleanser to the rough news in recent weeks. So here we go:
