{"id":6366,"date":"2023-04-19T11:17:58","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T15:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/?p=6366"},"modified":"2023-04-19T14:12:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T18:12:56","slug":"christian-themed-ouija-board-game-a-trap-of-the-devil-priest-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/2023\/04\/christian-themed-ouija-board-game-a-trap-of-the-devil-priest-warns.html","title":{"rendered":"Christian-Themed Ouija Board Game &#8216;A Trap of the Devil,&#8217; Priest Warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6396\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/409\/2023\/04\/Holy-Spirit-Board-02-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Christians are being warned against a \u201cChristian Ouija board\u201d being sold online. The product appears to have stemmed from a <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bR9OjPhU9vo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">video<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0posted online eight months ago on a YouTube channel with the handle \u201cHoly Spirit Games.\u201d The video features a man in a cheaply made Jesus costume using foul language and sexual innuendo to promote the \u201cHoly Spirit Board.\u201d The video appears to be meant as either some sort of parody or satire due to the man\u2019s over-the-top performance, and laughing can be heard in the background from someone who may be filming the \u201cad.\u201d The channel has 51 subscribers, and the ad has been viewed over six thousand times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Joke or not, the board game itself is being sold on <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Holy-Spirit-Board-Games\/dp\/B09QH3HC72\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Amazon<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. \u201cGET THE ANSWERS YOU NEED! &#8211; The Holy Spirit Board can answer all of life\u2019s most important questions, straight from the man himself!\u201d reads the game\u2019s description. The game has 42 reviews, with 61 percent being 5-star ratings and 28 percent being 1-star ratings. One 1-star rating headlines the rating with \u201cI Thought This Was a Joke.\u201d \u201cI really thought this had to be a joke, but it is really for sale,\u201d the review says. \u201cThis is like selling ice in Alaska-no one would buy that. Same here-you want to contact the Holy Spirit? PRAY. For goodness sake, it\u2019s free. You think God can\u2019t hear you? There\u2019s no place He doesn\u2019t see and hear everything. I promise He even hears your thoughts. Save $30 and buy a Bible with it.\u201d Most 5-star reviews appear to be tongue-in-cheek, with one reviewer writing, \u201cAfter setting it up, at 1 min and 16 seconds, I made contact!!!! It\u2019s been a while now, and I feel that we are connecting so well. I asked [Jesus] to move in with me yesterday, and now he seems to be avoiding me again&#8230;&#8230; Did I come on too strong?\u201d Another reviewer stated they bought the board as a joke. \u201cA friend who collects Ouija boards was really excited to see this amusing and unique Ouija equivalent! Their online video made the product all the more enjoyable!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Exorcist Roman Catholic Father Ernesto Caro of the Diocese of Monterey, Mexico, stated that encouraging people to speak with spirits is no laughing matter. \u201cThe devil is always looking for different ways he can trap all the victims that he can take for him. And this is one,\u201d he said in an interview on \u201c<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FurLfW7mF7Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">News Nightly<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.\u201d Taking the board game\u2019s claims of connecting users to God seriously, Caro warned that users might \u201cthink that it is God who is talking with you, but it\u2019s not. If the [Ouija board] triangle is moving by itself, be careful. It\u2019s not God who is moving; it\u2019s the devil.\u201d One user on Amazon echoes Caro\u2019s statements, writing, \u201cTo those who mock, many, many Christians had a life before they were Christians, and of those, many are well-studied in the occult or have been involved in it before they were Christians. They understand what is actually going on here better than most. So you may try to act smart and be rude, but you are the one in the wrong here. Those in Christianity, as within any religion, have the right to protect and call out attacks and inconsistencies that are easily proven wrong according to their religion because this product is 100% incorrect in advertising and a sneaky way to get those Christians involved in something that is against their Bible.\u201d Overall, the game seems to be made as a mockery, but that doesn\u2019t make the dangers of Ouija any less real. Nor does it make mocking the reality of demons any less real. As Galatians 6:7 says: \u201cBe not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christians are being warned against a \u201cChristian Ouija board\u201d being sold online. 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