J-M's History Corner

I recently reblogged How to Spot a Fake-Azz “Occult Expert” in Two Words , which refuted some of the lies some Christians circulate against British author J.K. Rowling and her Harry Potter books (and their movie adaptions).  For some reason, when it comes to popular culture, Christianity has long had a problem with paranoia and outright lies.  Harry Potter is a good example.  The Satanic Panic is another.  More recently, some Christians have sought to misportray the Netflix shows Lucifer and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina as promoting satanism & portraying God negatively, both of which claims are not only far from the truth, but impossible to make by someone who has actually seen the shows. For some reason, it is relatively popular to make accusations of satanism and occultism without evidence – or with FORGED evidence – which plenty of people always lap up and accept as gospel truth – no matter how ridiculous, outlandish, unsubstantiated, or dispr...

American Slytherin I just subjected myself to one of the worst blog entries I’ve ever read. Which, knowing the internets, must be pretty bad. As it seems that riling me up is the only way to get me thrown headlong into the blogging process these days, here I am, full of disappointment and irritation yet again, as some well-meaning, but ultimately ignorant and unqualified person attempts to speak the Truth About The Occult, only to unknowingly make a fool out of them self and drive away the souls most in need of conversion. Let me be clear– while I do try to swallow my irritation on most matters, in this case a person is not only misrepresenting the Catholic Church and Christianity, they are further alienating and pushing away many souls that, I rather rashly assume, they would deem most in need of saving and conversion. I am not writing this to… View original post 3,136 more words