deaddude said:
Yet the stuff originated in catholocisim. If you study the major incarna (the best known part of the tarot deck) you will find that most of the cards have biblical imagery. Not a bit to do with Satanism.
So does Voodoo but that doesn't mean it has any real relevance to Catholicism just because a group of people take bits and pieces of the Catholic faith such as the Saints etc and meld it with chanting, animal ritual sacrifice, and prosperity spells. You see Satanism is not always about blatant goats heads, and black candles........It's about tricking people into thinking they are practicing harmless magics loosley based on bits and pieces of other faiths. To simplify this the golden rule is......If you choose to worship God/Jesus and you want to take control of your life (which is just what the lure of magic and tarot cards hold for most people) then just pray. If you want to be involved in magic, tarot cards, seances, ouija boards, astral projection, levitating, worshiping Gaia, the trees, flowers, etc then just know it doesn't come from God, it comes from the other one. Just know
exaclty what your are getting yourself into and know it for what it is.
Just an aside to this, the Catholic church whenever it even considers doing the ritual of Exorcism, the person is given a battery of psychological tests by priests who have their PHD's in Psychology. They take this matter very seriously and don't just jump into it. A full investigation is done first of the person and their families. Before the ritual is done the priest who is trained in this area must fast and pray for a long time in preparation becasue it is so dangerous to his own health, and soul. They want to make sure the person really is possessed.