Why do Christians believe in the paranormal?

I am no longer a believer but during the years I was into Christianity, I definitely was told that ghosts, psychic ability, ESP, haunting spirits, and even horror movies were anti-Christian and of the devil.  I couldn't even wear my peace symbol because the church members believed peace symbols to be Satanic, that it signified an inverted cross with broken arms!

Go figure.  Apparently, Satanists had perverted the peace symbol much in the same was as Nazis twisted the Swastika into a symbol of hatred. 

There have been so many paranormal shows lately - and continue to be - with interest in ghosts and haunting stories soaring off the charts, that I have begun to contemplate what doomsayers have prophesied concerning the Last Days.  Not that it makes me believe that the Bible in a totally true guidebook for living (I still feel that it is mostly a work of fiction), but it does cause one to think.

Why all the recent and intense interest in the paranormal?

Are all these people truly being attacked by demons, or is there another reason for all the shows (fame and fortune)?

 I don't believe that these people are being haunted by anything but greed.  Same for the producers of the shows, as well as the paranormal groups that supposedly only want to help free the tortured souls from being attacked by demons, haunted by ghosts, or scared off by poltergeist activity.

I don't care how many Paranormal Activity movies Hollyweird puts out, no matter how many films about demonic possession they make...there's no such thing, no such acts, nothing!  It is all in those people's minds.  

So, why do Christians believe in this junk?  Well, they already believe in angels and angels don't exist.  So why not ghosts, demons, fortune tellers, and all the rest of that crap?  Read your Bible.  Talk to your church leaders.  They will inform you that this type of stuff is from the devil.  I just think it's all baloney, and I'd never fall for any of those lies the paranormal 'experts' spout.  To me, it is true comedy and I can't help but laugh when I watch one of these shows on YouTube. 

People are gullible.  My own mother was watching My Ghost Story and believed every bit of it.  I straight out told her that a Christian would not believe in that junk because it would be considered evil.  She claimed she was going to stop watching the show, but that'll only happen if it's canceled.  

WAKE UP!  Stop supporting these idiotic shows.  Instead, watch some of the educational shows on Animal Planet or the Discovery Channel.  You might learn something useful.   

The Truth About Witches Part 1

I am not a Wiccan anymore but I seriously get fed up with narrow-minded fools (usually Christians or other religious zealots) who consider Witchcraft 'evil', 'perversive', and 'demonic'.

First of all, Wiccans do not believe in the Devil.  Only Christians (especially), Jews, and Muslims do.  I currently reading a fantastically unbelievable book about a supposed demonic possession, The Day Satan Called by Bill Scott (no relation to Jill).

Typical of Christians, Mr. Scott refers throughout the book to witches and covens and Satanism.  Oh, he does admit that since his experience with the allegedly possessed person, he has learned that there are witches and covens that do not worship Satan but nature.  But the stereotypes persist.

The only people on earth one could confess to worshiping the Devil are Christians.  They spend so much time and effort and though on demons and their master Satan, that I often wonder when they find the time to expend on anything else.

Wiccans are not devil worshipers.  They are not perverts.  They are not freaks.  Wiccans worship nature and the Feminine - and this aspect of Wicca is the main reason they are so prosecuted.  Worshiping a female deity?  WTF...?!?

I will delve into this more fully in Part 2.

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The Myrtles Plantation

Is the Myrtles Plantation really haunted?  There is no scientific evidence to support ghosts and hauntings and all, and with the Myrtles, it is the hearsay of those who claim to have experienced the Myrtles spirits.  

Are these people experiencing so-called haunts because that is what they expect?  I watched an episode of Ghost Lab where those big, burly guys were just about freaking out because they supposedly were being touched, catching EVPs, and seeing or feeling things watching them that were not there.

When you expect something to be a certain way, it generally turns out to be like that.  There is a widespread, long-believed-to-be-Gospel that the French are rude.  Well, I have never had that experience in all my time spent in France (and I have visited the country four times since 1999).  I would have to state that the Spanish and the Italians are far ruder than the French.  My experience has been that the most gracious and polite of the Europeans I've encountered are the Germans, the Austrians, and to a slightly lesser extent, the British.  If you go to France expecting the French to be rude, you're going to have a noticeable attitude about you and the French people you deal with will notice this and react accordingly.  

Back to the Myrtles...

Okay, so people claim to have taken photos of ghosts there.  I have shot photos of dozens of places that could be haunted: Notre Dame (exterior & interior) , Hohensalzburg Castle that overlooks the quaint town of Salzburg, Versailles Palace, Schloss Neuschwanstein, the Bone Chapel at Kutna Hora (as well as the adjacent cemetery), Old Salem here in Winston Salem...and not one ghost has shown up in any of my hundreds of photos!  (And Old Salem is reputed to be haunted.  There is even a local historian who does a Ghost Walk of the area!)

I don't believe that the Myrtles is haunted.  I don't believe that people come back.  Once you're dead, you're dead.  I dare anyone who truly believes that this place is haunted to pay my expenses to spend a weekend in the old plantation.  If I experience anything supernatural, I will rewrite this blog post and apologize to all who have gone through a paranormal experience there.

Why are White people haunted?

 
Why does it seem as if White people are the only people who get possessed, haunted, and are victims of demonic activity?  (That is, if you believe people can become possessed, haunted, or victims of demonic activity in the first place.)

One almost never sees non-White people on paranormal shows.  I've seen one Black woman (married to a White man), perhaps four Black guys, two Asian fellows - and one of them was Daniel Hooven of The Paranormal Syndicate, and a Native American or two.  Usually, when you see Native Americans, they are there to cleanse the places of these hauntings and whatnot.  All the rest of the people have been White. 

Some might say that it is because there are far more White people in the United States than any other race.  I have spoken about this with others and their reasoning was that because of all the evil, barbaric, and hateful things that the Caucasian race has done to others over the centuries, they are under attack by demons more.  I am not certain I totally agree with this but the White people I've known over the years have been the type I wouldn't trust with my life if it came down to that.

Black people, at least Black Americans as I don't know anything about Blacks in other countries, tend to be far more religious than any other ethnic group.  I think Black Americans turned to religion during the times of slavery, Black Codes, Jim Crow, and otherwise being treated worse than dogs.  They looked to God, Jesus, and that mythical place called Heaven because their lives on earth were Hell.  Blacks today still believe wholly in the myth of religion and being treated fairly and loved in an afterlife, whereas on earth they are nearly universally disliked and mistrusted.

Whites, on the other hand, are almost globally loved and held up as the saviors of the world even though they practically destroyed it (and other races as well).  One could say that, because of all the terror perpetrated by the White race, running about the Southland dressed in white sheets scaring the superstitious, newly freed slaves, and lynching mainly innocent Black men for imagined crimes against White women while picnicking or just out of church (some traveled miles to view these spectacles; even children watched them, as one can see by examining the dozens of photos that exist from these evil times). 

Perhaps being haunted, attacked by demons, and possessed is the price White people must pay for the sins of their fathers. 

Voodoo is a religion Part 2

Hollywood enjoys making fun of Voodoo.  Movies like 'The Serpent and The Rainbow', 'The Skeleton Key' (though this one was more Hoodoo than Voodoo), 'Angel Heart', and 'Voodoo Academy' either poke fun at the religion of Voodoo, or make it out to seem like something evil...dark...and extremely dangerous.

If people did the same with Christianity or Judaism, there would be an international outcry.  However, it is okay to belittle the adherents of Voodoo just because they don't believe in the same mythical beings that Christians and Jews do.  (Why did I not add Muslims?  They are made fun of in films just as other non-Christians and non-Jews are.)

There are practices associated with Voodoo that simply are not true.  Under 'Myths and misconceptions' on the Wikipedia site, this entry does a better job than I could of explaining this:

Vodou is often associated with the lore of Satanism, zombies and "voodoo dolls". Zombie creation has been referenced within rural Haitian culture,^[33] but is not a part of the Vodou religion. Such manifestations fall under the auspices of the bokor or sorcerer rather than the priest of the Loa.

The practice of sticking pins in voodoo dolls has history in folk magic. "Voodoo dolls" are often associated with New Orleans Voodoo and Hoodoo (folk magic) as well the magical devices of the poppet and the nkisi or bocio of West and Central Africa.

The dark side of Vodou is often a dramatic device of modern horror and action-adventure movies such as The Serpent and the Rainbow and Live and Let Die (part of the Ian Fleming James Bond series).

If anyone would study Voodoo, they would learn that practitioners of black magick within Voodoo are shunned by followers of this religion. An excellent site to learn more of the truth about Voodoo is True Voodoo.  So what if practitioners conduct rituals, spells, and such?  Do not the followers of Christianity and Judaism do the same within their belief systems?

To me, Voodoo is more of a natural religion for American Blacks than is Christianity, which our ancestors were forced into accepting as their religion during the Slavery Holocaust.  In Africa before the coming of the White Man, the natives did not practice Christianity.  They had no knowledge of this religion until the Europeans unfortunately arrived.  Before Christianity made its way to Europe, even Europeans did not follow Jesus Christ.  They adhered to pagan practices, the worshiping of gods and (especially) goddesses.

I hope that my posts on Voodoo open the minds of visitors to this site.