Hahahahaha! Milton Bradley made a nice profit off pieces of particle board and a piece of plastic. A 156 years in business and not one haunted factory. Yeah, those poor spirits must wait around until someone pulls out the Ouija board before making themselves present.
Right on all three points. Benign until activated.
“... the act of using the Ouija board is a form of divination (discovering hidden knowledge through supernatural means) and is very real.”
The act of manufacturing a product is NOT divination.
Apples v. Oranges...
The Ouija board came out in 1928.
In the factory, they would be making them, not using them.
When my sister was in college, some girls were playing with a Ouija board, and got a cold spot in their room. One of the Jesuits came and sprinkled some holy water around, and read them the riot act.
The material of the board itself is not inherently evil, the act of divination is. You could attempt to communicate with the dead using almost anything — one of the ancient Greek philosophers (Can’t remember which, Plato maybe?) recorded using a table to as a divination tool, the table sliding around the room in answer to questions. Obviously tables aren’t evil, but again, the act of divination is.
This is NOT about a board game.
This is about unwitting people calling on the devil, who is all too happy to answer the call.
In the C.S. Lewis book “The Screwtape Letters”, where a senior tempter is training an apprentice, the senior informs the student, “Cards are as good as murder, if the cards do the trick.”
The point is, the objective is to win the soul for Satan, and it doesn’t need to be a spectacular sin.