While shopping for Christmas presents this year, I came across a set of cards called Guardian Angels. Created by the aptly named Angela McGerr, it is a card drawing oracle designed to help provide you with guidance for your life.
Why hasn't the Religious Right jumped all over this?
For all its nice art and better intentions, this is a tricked up Tarot deck. It is magic in Christian clothing. It includes a book of 100 angels, like Aratron, Guardian Angel of Nature's Magic. I do not believe I am familiar with that name, neither from the Bible nor the Apochripha. Nor have I heard of Och, Guardian Angel of Chrystal Alchemy. I'm sure I would have remembered THAT name. Unless Ms McGerr is claiming divine contact, it is a total invention which she wishes us to believe is a sending of God and a guide for our lives.
It is a lie, and a dangerous one.
Using this set replaces judgement and knowledge of God's plan with a faith in the draw, and the randomness of chance. The unfortunate believer has as much chance of getting a correct answer to his problem than he has of drawing to an inside straight.
Dobson and Robertson are hyping the "de-Christing of Christmas" as the greatest assault against Christianity since the fall of Rome, yet this insidious little game - and all the other similar little angelic oracles - are a greater danger by an order of magnitude. They are an assault on the core beliefs of the religion, not just on the public use of language.
If the Religious Right really cared about the faith, they would be concentrating on getting these sets out of the Christian book stores. To heck with what they call the 25th!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment