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This Halloween, Christian
leaders challenged to take a stand, or stand down
Recently
some 300
exorcists flocked to Poland for a week-long congress to
examine the current fashion for vampirism the world-over and
the apparent connection between this fascination and a surge
in demonic possession.
 According
to a group of Christian scholars, this comes as the world is
experiencing an explosion of ancient occultism combined with
wicked fascination for ghosts and all things paranormal. In
the United States alone, there are now more than two hundred
thousand registered witches, this group claims, and as many
as 8 million unregistered practitioners of “the craft.”
On college and high school campuses, vampires, werewolves,
and other “creatures of the night” are esteemed as
objects of desire and idolized by young men and women who
view them as cult icons of envious mystical power.
Evidently, church goers are enchanted by the darkness as
well. An April 13, 2011 article “Mysticism
Infecting Nazarene Beliefs” was preceded only a few
days before by a Telegraph
article describing how a “surge in Satanism” inside
the church has sparked a “rise in demand for exorcists”
within traditional religious settings.
And then
there is the recent spate of killings and attacks on people
by individuals claiming to be vampires and werewolves. The
arrest of a Texas man who broke into a woman's house, threw
her against a wall and tried to suck her blood is one
example. Another case this month involves a
Florida teenager who has been charged together with four
other people of beating a 16-year-old boy to death. The
teenage girl claims to be a vampire/werewolf hybrid and
investigators acknowledge that she and the other suspects
appear to be part of a vampire cult.
Rise in
this activity is documented in a new book (God's
Ghostbusters, Defender Publishing)
whose publisher believes it is time for Christian leaders to
take a stand and to speak out on this issue, perhaps even
using the month of October and the season of Halloween as
opportunity to address congregations on the dangers of
occult activity.
"Psychologists
have long understood how women in general desire strength in
men, but few could have imagined how this natural and
overriding need by young ladies would be used in modern
times to seduce them of their innocence using mysteriously
strong yet everlastingly damned creatures depicted in
popular books and films like Twilight,
New Moon, and Eclipse,"
says publisher Thomas Horn. "Listing all of the related
fan sites, music videos, magazines, television shows, and
movies currently dedicated to sexual [or romantic] obsession
with alluring demons-in-flesh would be daunting. But these
would have to include television shows like Being
Human, The Gates,
Underworld, The
Vampire Diaries, and
True Blood, not
to mention the hedonistic gay-themed program The
Lair, a series that plays nationwide on all major cable
systems based on a vampire-run sex club."
Horn
further admonishes that, "If parents, pastors and youth
pastors haven't been paying attention, they need to spend a
little time looking into what their children are mentally
and spiritually feeding on, because we are losing a
generation to darkness. Consider as an example popular
youth-oriented magazines like Rolling Stone and their
article The
Joy of Vampire Sex. Look at the Ménage à
Trois on the magazine's cover of three nudes bathed in
blood with the promise to readers that vampires are 'Hot.
They're Sexy. They're Undead.'"
Obviously
for people like Horn, this is a serious issue, but he
acknowledges some will disagree and say that focusing on
pop-culture memes as a sign of deeper, culturally relevant
consequences is an over-assessment of the danger. The
present captivation with dark supernaturalism by this
generation will eventually fade, some might argue, so we
should not worry, as the long-term effects of Harry
Potter’s witchcraft and Twilight’s
vampirism will be of no more significance in the years ahead
than was the Cowboy and Indian games played by our
grandparents.
"As a
doctor of theology with a past in exorcism, I couldn’t
disagree more," Horn warns. "Mass media including
the Internet, television, film, radio, and other
communications systems have traded Bela-Lugosi-like vampires
of former years and silly Abbott and Costello’s
Frankensteins and Mummies, which could be vanquished with
Christian symbols, for monsters of profound demonic
character depicted as impervious to Christ’s power. As a
result, today’s youth have exchanged yesterday’s
pigtails and pop-guns for pentagrams and blood covenants
aligned with forces far stronger than former generations
could have imagined."
Horn says
this is one of the signs that this age is under demonic
influence. If we could see through the veil into the
supernatural realm, we would find a world alive with good
against evil, he believes, a place where the ultimate prize
is the soul of this generation and where legions war for
control of its cities and people.
 Horn
challenges: "With everything that is happening in
culture today, Christian leaders should use the month of
October and the season of Halloween [unique
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to address these issues.
Frankly, preachers need to care enough about those families
and youth within their care to take a stand, or stand down;
be gutsy enough to use their pulpit for something eternally
useful, or quit the ministry and become a car
salesman."
Horn is not
alone in his assessment. The 'God's Ghostbusters' challenge
is being put forth by a " who's who" of
conservative scholars including best-selling authors and
Christian leaders like Chuck Missler, Gary Stearman, Noah
Hutchings, Gary Bates, John McTernan and others.
To help
pastors, Christian education directors, Sunday School
teachers and ministry leaders address such topics this
Halloween, a 270 page teachers guide and two books on the
subject in pdf format can be downloaded at no cost on the
God's Ghostbusters page at http://survivormall.com/thedeparture-3-4.aspx
by simply right clicking the link and "saving as"
to ones computer. The book Gods Ghostbusters is also on
sale.
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