“Satan doesn’t live in a piece of cardboard.”
That argument has failed. Give it up.
When that particular “piece of cardboard” is used, the users dispose themselves, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, in a way that often opens them to the influence of Satan or other malign spirits, at the same time that it attracts malevolent attention.
The nature of the object is irrelevant. It could be cardboard, ivory, gold, or the body of a sacrifice. It could be just people sitting around a table trying to hold a seance. Doesn’t matter.
You can keep talking about how it’s only a piece of cardboard, but I think most of us understand why that is completely irrelevant.
BINGO!!!! Key word here is "used"!!!!!!!
I agree that the object is irrelevant and not worthy of all the angst being thrown around this thread.
The "act" of engaging in sorcery is against the teachings of Christ. What tools you use to conduct such acts are irrelevant and are neither good nor evil.