“Twilight of the West”

Millions of professing evangelical Christian girls are as besotted with the Twilight book/movie phenomenon as the rest the rest of the youth subculture. This article from Lifesitenews.com examines the occult roots of these books and movies and explains what is says about our fast collapsing Western culture.

OTTAWA, June 29, 2010, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Wednesday’s release of “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” promises to be a blockbuster success, if last week’s premiere in Los Angeles, where hundreds of fans camped out for days in advance order to get a glimpse, is any indication. The film’s massive popularity comes as no surprise to Canadian novelist and author Michael O’Brien, who analyzes the Twilight series in his latest book. O’Brien argues convincingly that the vampire novel series dangerously twists evil into good and may even be demonically influenced.

Commenting today on the film’s release, O’Brien told LifeSiteNews, “Unprecedented cultural phenomena such as the Twilight series, Harry Potter and Phillip Pullman’s Dark Materials series represent a sliding scale of familiarity with evil. It is time for the people of the West to awaken to the fact that we are in the midst of a cultural revolution that is reshaping our understanding of reality itself in powerful ways. It succeeds in this by rewarding us with copious sensual pleasures stimulating the imagination in all the wrong directions.” Read the article here.

Pink Ouija Board Targeting Young Girls

PAWTUCKET, Rhode Island, February 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A boycott has been launched against toymaker giant Hasbro and Toys R Us for making and marketing a pink Ouija board targeting girls as young as eight years old.

The board’s Toys R Us webpage – which has evidently been recently removed – boasted: “It has always been mysterious. It has always been mystifying. And now the OUIJA Board is just for you, girl.” The board comes with 72 “fun questions” to ask, including: “Who will call/text me next? Will I be a famous actor someday? Who wishes they could trade places with me?”

However, a glow-in-the-dark Ouija board is still available on the Toys R Us website, which is also marketed for ages 8 and older. The product description suggests: “Make up your own questions, and let the OUIJA Board satisfy your curiosity in virtually endless ways. OUIJA Board will answer. It’s just a game – or is it?”

The vast majority of online comments, both positive and negative, on the glow-in-the-dark version strongly emphasized that the Ouija board is potentially dangerous and “not a game.” Several comments discussed in depth how to treat the “spirits” of the game politely, in order to avoid attack. Only about half a dozen comments out of 123 claimed the game was “just a toy.”

“This may be a game to you, but I assure you whomever you are playing with on the ‘other side’ it is not a game to them,” wrote one contributor.

Another user wrote: “Although I love this game, it is very definitley (sic) NOT suited for 8 year olds, considering it works most of the time, and they could be talking to evil spirits.” Read the whole article here.