Photo and Commentary ©2024 by Maylan Schurch
Friday, November 1, 2024
As a pastor with a sincere belief in the Bible, I’ve always been startled by the number of astrology books I see in bookstores. But a few days back I was given another startlement – the proliferation of Tarot card decks.
Just a few years back, when I looked, it seemed as though there were only a few kinds of Tarot decks on sale – four, five, ten at most. But the photo above, taken just last week in a local Barnes and Noble, offers me more than 100 decks, with themes like Magic Nordic, Dungeons and Dragons, Dia de Los Muertos, Celtic, The Wild Unknown Animal Spirit, the Witch Tarot Deck, a Poet’s Tarot, and many, many more.
Okay. What’s the story here? The story seems to be that Tarot has taken off with the velocity of a SpaceX rocket booster. People evidently keep asking for these oracle tools, asking with so much persistence that publishers scour around for themes (and artists who can illustrate them) to supply the need.
Searching for knowledge of the beyond, or the future, or for life guidance, is natural curiosity. But the all-knowing God – who offers us eternal wisdom in His 730,000-word Bible – warns us against dead-end forms of divination.
To read two Scriptures about this subject, click the link just below:
https://www.bibleinfo.com/en/topics/occult