{"id":27710,"date":"2023-08-22T10:24:35","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T14:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=27710"},"modified":"2023-08-22T11:09:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T15:09:31","slug":"haunted-mansion-openly-mocks-christianity-and-promotes-demonic-possession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2023\/08\/haunted-mansion-openly-mocks-christianity-and-promotes-demonic-possession.html","title":{"rendered":"‘Haunted Mansion’ Openly Mocks Christianity and Promotes Demonic Possession"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Disney was once considered the untouchable gold standard in family entertainment, but now the brand is declining, both fiscally and culturally. The house that Mickey Mouse built hasn\u2019t shied away from hiring actors and promoting openly satanic messages.<\/p>\n

Disney\u2019s \u201cHaunted Mansion\u201d proved undeniably faithful to the theme park ride, even if you\u2019re unsurprised by the movie\u2019s pervasive occult themes and general hostility toward a biblical perspective. The film, not to be confused with an entirely different 2003 movie starring Eddie Murphy, features an A-list cast that includes Danny DeVito, Owen Wilson, Rosario Dawson, Jamie Lee Curtis, and an unrecognizable Jared Leto as the Hatbox Ghost.<\/p>\n

The movie focuses on widow Gabbie (Dawson) and her son Travis, who leave the big city for Gracey Manor, a French Colonial-style home in Louisiana. Upon moving in, however, the single mom and her son realize they have supernatural squatters and recruit a team of \u201cspiritual experts\u201d to cleanse their home.<\/p>\n

In the real world, for the last 2,000-plus years, priests, pastors and other men of the cloth have been sought out for comfort, counsel, and prayer. They are fallen and sinful men, just like the rest of us, who have mostly committed their lives, however imperfectly, to pointing people to the gift of God in Christ Jesus.\u00a0At least, that\u2019s how it\u2019s supposed to be.<\/p>\n

However, in the film, the priest character, Father Kent, played by Wilson, is an unfortunate fraud and swindler who wears a collar and oversized cross around his neck as a costume rather than a lifestyle. Kent is far from being a righteous shepherd of the flock, a passive, almost apathetic figure deferring on most matters to atheist freelance photographer Ben Mattias and psychic Harriet, played by LaKeith Stanfield and Tiffany Haddish.<\/p>\n