Faith Filled Family Magazine October 2016 | Page 13

The Effect of Occult
Activities on Christians:
Is there an effect, or is it all just “hocus pocus”?
By Brenda F. Stapleton

I

t is that time of year when
the cooler air causes us to
become restless about staying. The summer months were
hot and indoors seemed more
of a pleasurable way to spend
the afternoon. However, when
the leaves turn lovely colors and
people start milling about later
into the darker hours, we too linger. It’s just the feeling we get
of being out. Some people stay
outside with their children and
watch them play; others find activities to do after school or work
that carries the over into the
crisp night air. There are some,
though; we pass on our way in,
and we don’t engage these people. Some people say it’s a feeling they get from them. Could
that be judgmental, or could it be
reckless?
THE BEGINNING OF THE OCCULT
When speaking of the occult, we
are referring to significant aspects of the occult which have
grown over the years and have
become widely accepted. Why?
Media, of course. Books, magazines, stores, games, music,
movies, education, satanic rituals, Halloween as Holy, and the
Women’s Liberation Movement.
In some way, all of these have

opened our minds, our homes,
our lives, and our fears to sorcery, witchcraft, magic, Wicca,
Satanism, wizards, mediums,
fortune-tellers, spiritualism, psy-

chics, and paganism. The New
Age Movement took what used
to be modern tales and beliefs
and has popularized them into
an attack This became known as