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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Oh brother.
It's a trap into which I naively fell many years ago and I will NEVER FORGET what that "toy" conjured up. Don't believe me ... check out the responses at the above link. For the unbelievers, this man made object is a tunnel that leads to a dark world.
Is that you, Cap’n Howdy?
Perhaps it’s time to up date the “Exorcist”
They’ve always sold it, right with the Monopoly and Life games, ever since I was a little kid.
(Watch the Exorcist.)
Have you ever ‘tried’ the board?
... what is new is that it now looks like a feminine hygeine product.
Satan’s Chat Room.
I recall using the board when I was 12 to 14 with my parents, relatives, etc. It was bizarre how it could answer questions and how you could never pin down how it was moving on the board and anwering questions with complicated answers.
When you tried to trip it up, I remember the scroller would just start doing circles faster and faster until it literally moved off the board.
Weird.
Wow! Interesting reading the comments on the link. Thanks!
It is a toy,It’s an old magic trick,use to be into magic when I was a kid.
Who is more clueless, the people who believe a Ouija board works or the people who are afraid of it?
I also have experience with those things. We were scientific with our experiments; and, verified that these things are not baseless. I do indead classify them as dangerous because they clearly open one up to spritual harm.
For you skeptic readers, one of the experiments was conducted as follows: Two groups of people separated by hundreds of miles were able to send messages through this medium. Message text was double blind and flawlessly delivered. Cell phones and even pagers had not been invented. There was no communication between these groups except the Ouija Boards. Validation occured when the paper with the transcribed message was returned to the parent group.
“Who is more clueless, the people who believe a Ouija board works or the people who are afraid of it?”
You took the words right out of my mouth. heh heh
I did once but nothing happened. So I never tried it again.
I'd say the people who never experimented with those things. My experience with them was carefully contrived and yielded verifyable results.
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