Toys R Us is selling Ouija boards, promoting them as acceptable for children as young as eight years old.Posted on 02/03/2010 3:44:51 PM PST by NYer
Toys R Us is selling Ouija boards, promoting them as acceptable for children as young as eight years old.
The pink edition of the Ouija board is listed for girls eight-years-old and up while the regular version is designated for all children eight and up. Stephen Phelan, communications manager of Human Life International, checked the website and reports that the findings are disturbing.
"It is just troubling that these things are treated as casually as any other game, like Monopoly or anything else on this Toys R Us site -- and I think it's something Christians should be aware of and really not support," he states.
He further believes that Christians have an obligation to fight against it. "If you go to the comments section on the Toys R Us [web]site, you'll read comments from people who talk about being obsessed with it, talk about missing school for it, talk about the spirits they spoke to on the other side and how creepy it was," Phelan describes.
The communications manager adds that the primary groups that deny the evils of the Ouija board are the ones who deny the spirit world entirely. He goes on to say Christians have a biblical mandate.
"We're supposed to deal with the truth only," he notes. "We're supposed to have nothing to do with dark spirits. We're not supposed to dabble in anything that would compromise our souls, and that's exactly what this does."
The manufacturer of the product is Hasbro.
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“I don’t believe in the devil, therefore it doesn’t exist to me.”
You think he can’t harm you if you don’t believe in him?
Sort of like people covering their eyes on the principle that if they can’t see something, it can’t see them.
I don’t believe in you.
If your desire is to warn people of the dangers of this medium, then why are you challenging those who don’t believe you to try it for themselves?
“Well...that...or your mind is full of childish notions that I put away long ago.”
How old were you when you “put them away.”
“I don’t believe in you.”
And yet here I am.
Doesn’t look like a winning strategy to me.
Good question. I guess my curiosity burns too hot sometimes. Maybe I think skeptics can be brought into Faith by observing that there really is a spiritual aspect to life.
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