Question:
Help with questions about Occult for my Religion class!?
1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Help with questions about Occult for my Religion class!?
Twelve answers:
ɹɐǝɟsuɐs Blessed Cheese Maker
2008-05-06 21:07:49 UTC
Ouigia boards were developed for humans to commune with dead people, tarrot cards are used to predict the future.



Witchcraft is something that Hermeiny Granger does very well, but poor red headed Westley struggles greatly with.

Horoscopes are based on astrological signs and are the basis for all major religions including Christianity.

Satanists traditionally don't believer in Satan, but adopt the term because they understand that Christians apply it to them anyway.
2008-05-06 21:05:13 UTC
1.- Bologna...



2.- Even more bologna...

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3.- Bologna for the thinking-impaired; they're based on medieval beliefs...



4.- Some do, which makes them moronic...
clusium1971
2008-05-06 21:12:17 UTC
Oujia boards & tarot cards are forms of divination. The former is a kind of divination known as necromancy(contacting the dead).



Witchcraft is a kind of art or skill at attempting to entice magic power(either good or evil).



Horoscopes are astrology. They are based on a kind of divination based on reading of the stars in the nightsky.



There are different types of satanists. Some, like LeVayan satanists claim to be atheists, & only see satan is a symbol. Others are actual devil worshippers. As a Christian, I would best describe it as 'spiritual suicide.'
fullmoonbuggy
2008-05-06 22:35:28 UTC
Hello, I know you've gotten a lot of pretty crappy answers, so i am going to give you one that isn't quite so snarky. but not particularly doing your work for you.



Just to let you know, if you want a definition you are asking for a fact as decided by a group of scholars and put in an encyclopedia or something, for the most part that should be an unbiased dry bare bones description. There is no point of view.

Either way, you cannot get a Christian point of view on a pagan website, nor from a pagan... we aren't christian, we don't have that point of view, and a lot of us have a pretty poor opinion of that point of view.



Like several people said before, ouija boards and tarot cards are divination tools. So are horoscopes.



Witchcraft is generally understood as the ritual or ceremonial part of an earth-based pagan religion.



Satanists of the Church of Satan do not believe in Satan.



I will put a link to religious tolerance.org's satanism page which has a lot of detailed information for you, and a link to a few paganism sites with the info you need. DONT go to the forum unless you have a well thought out, well phrased question based on something specific, AFTER you have read ALL of the information or you will get the same reaction you got here.
Janet L
2008-05-06 22:20:21 UTC
Well if I gave you a christian point of view you would not get the truth about those things you asked.



Ouijia Boards - are boards that are suppose to help you connect to spirits.



Tarot cards - are loaded with symbolism that gets your mind into a different mode and helps guide you.



Witchcraft - isn't something easily explained. Since I practice it I must say that it isn't evil and absolutely has nothing to do with the devil. I don't even believe in a devil because it's a christian concept and not one belonging to every other religions or belief system in the world.



Horoscopes are uses the position of the stars at your time of birth to determine what is possibly going to happen in your life. It's much more involved and isn't quickly or easily explained to someone who doesn't know anything about it. It's difficult even if you do know some about it.



I'll leave the satanist question for them to answer.
Rolando C I
2008-05-06 21:46:28 UTC
All of this are Satan's tools to lead people into becoming.De monized. The bible strongly condemns all of this practices. If you are a wise person you will stay away from them.
John S
2008-05-06 21:20:29 UTC
You should look it up for yourself. You could start

on Wikipedia.



Ouija boards and tarot cards devices for divination.

Witchcraft is a pagan religion.

horoscopes are a form of augury (divination by interpreting

natural events).



Satanism is a modern pseudo religion which is based

on the primacy of the individual. From what I have read,

satanists don't necessarily believe in anything but themselves.
Angelical Demonical
2008-05-06 21:18:34 UTC
The word occult means hidden. Christianity frowns upon anything hidden by suggesting that they are evil. Ouija boards & tarot are tools used to gain hidden information.

The twelve star signs are just that. signs representing spheres in our planetary system, with much mythology added.

As for Satanistic worship, i'm afraid it isnt anything i've looked into, I do know that they dress up in long robes & summon the spirits of long gone ancient wizards & do a lot of chanting!!

Good luck!
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2008-05-06 21:15:26 UTC
I am a Christian, and I'm curious. Ive been guilty of reading all of the above. Now do I believe it to be an occult. I don't think so. I don't feel I'm evil either. I believe in one true God, and I am capable of making errors of the world.

I then I pray for forgiveness in the name of Jesus.
No More Abuse
2008-05-06 21:08:05 UTC
sorry that I cannot directly answer all of the questions, but; witchcraft is of the devil...santanists worship satan
Buzzbait
2008-05-06 14:04:33 UTC
Evolution is actually a bunch of biological facts that give us an idea of how we became who we are. It doesn't let us know who or what made us. It should be taught by the facts alone and not by emphasizing that it is denouncing a god in which might or might not exist. I think it is wrong to teach intelligent design the same way we teach science because science is factual and ever growing as we find out more about our world. Intelligent design holds no factual evidence even when it is broken down in bits and pieces. Would you allow Witch Doctors to teach our Medical Students? I didn't think so, lets keep science and religion seperate!!!
2008-05-06 21:08:34 UTC
from a christian point of view those things are bad bad bad. very nasty stuff.



from a less fascist point of view, tarot cards tell the future. ouija boards and "witchcraft" are commercial and superficial, mostly games. horoscopes tell you personality traits based on the location of the stars and planets. they too are mostly a game in the US but in india and other places they are taken very seriously, and are more complicated than the few words found in newspaper columns in the US.



satanism is a form of christianity. both satanists and christians believe in satan.


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