Christian and Occult

I have been watching a lot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer lately. I’m a big fan of the sci-fi, thriller, mystical, punching shows. Anything that takes me away from my own reality and plants me somewhere else, as someone else. When you watch these kinds of shows, though, you tend to open up things in your mind that you wouldn’t have normally thought of.

Oops.

In addition to having an active imagination and depression that makes me over-think absolutely everything, I also have this illogical need for discovery and depth where none is needed, which leads me to my topic today: This completely irrational and personal stream of consciousness about Christians and their blatant rejection of the reality of witchcraft.

It actually started out in reverse, I was watching Buffy walk through a college campus on her first day and people are handing her flyers for parties and protests and, as usual when there is a director that wants you to be annoyed, there was a girl handing out a flyer and said “Have you accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior?” Buffy walks away annoyed and says a sarcastic comment and I had an AHA moment.

Buffy spends the entire show fighting vampires, demons, and witches at the Hell-Mouth, but, guess who created Hell. Even though it is never mentioned specifically, there are a million small occurrences that relate to the Bible and God and that brought me to a strange thought: If people who live in the real world believe in God and Angels, then it follows that all the things are true. If there are angels, there are demons. If there are demons, they have names (recorded in the bible). If they have names, they have separate personalities and powers. People who claim to be witches or practice Wicca could in fact be summoning real demons and be controlled by their powers which means it is totally plausible that someone in the real world could actually be using magic.

I dabbled myself when I was younger. My parents let me watch The Craft way too young and I was fascinated. I made pentagrams and looked up spells online. I made voodoo dolls and had a wand I used to recite incantations. I had tarot cards and healing crystals. I never was able to do anything, because I never really believed I could and probably because I wasn’t possessed, but the ideas were there. There are many people that truly believe that they are witches, that they can practice magic in this reality. If those people believe so wholeheartedly that they can do these things, who am I, or anyone else, to say that what they believe is not real. I fight with people everyday for my Faith. I believe that God is real. I don’t have a way to prove it except how I feel and my life experiences. There are a billion books about God, a billion experiences by a billion people. There are just as many on practicing magic. We believe God is real because we feel it. So who are we to say that something that was proven to exist in the Bible, does not still exist today.

People still speak in tongues, people still heal other people, why is it that we accept those things as “real”, but when it comes to magic, that is obviously not a reality. We glorify movies and books that portray magic as fun and thrilling, but reject anything to do with the real thing as “science we can’t (or don’t want to) explain. Why do we as Christians pick and choose what we think is real from the Bible and what isn’t? Is it not acceptable that maybe every part of the bible is actually true and is still true to this day? And why is it that we believe Jesus is going to come back and bring hell fire and war and unleash all this terror on the world and demons will play, but we don’t actually believe demons are real?

There are so many holes in the logic of the everyday Christian. You can’t just pick and choose what parts you want to believe. It’s an all or nothing scenario. Just because you don’t like it or don’t understand it doesn’t mean it’s not real and doesn’t actually exist. I’m not saying we should all seek out witches and burn them, I’m just laying out the reality that it’s possible that everything is true, all the stories, all the fairy tales; everything is true and we only want to believe a small part.