CHARLO, New Brunswick, August 6, 2023 – Full disclosure here: I did not see the movie. I didn’t even make it all the way through the trailer. But I did skip through a few interviews given by the directors and read enough comments and reviews to get a good whiff of what the film was about. Let me put it another way – if I’m walking down the road and see a steaming pile of brown goop a few yards ahead, I don’t need to march right up to it and stick my face into it to know it’s poop. I can tell from a safe distance that it is what it is and detour around it. In the same way, I don’t need to watch even one minute of a movie headlined by a demon, starring a demon, to know it’s the spiritual equivalent of a steaming pile and therefore needs to be avoided. To do otherwise – to purposely kneel down and study it – would be the same as putting Jesus back up on the cross.

“Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.”

The last time I checked, Christians are to be taught by God and his Word, not by demons (even fictional ones). We betray God and Jesus when we turn our back to them and go to the devil for knowledge.

I am appalled by the sheer volume of Christians who are not only cheering this film on, but are urging their family, friends, and strangers to go see it. Some even claim it should be mandatory viewing in seminaries and Bible schools.

I can only think that these people have been bewitched, somewhat along the lines of the “O foolish Galatians” that Paul chewed out for falling such easy prey to liars.

Because have no doubt – the devil and his demons (even and especially the fictional ones) are liars. That’s all they are. They mix in enough facts to gain your trust, but their arguments are based on lies and delivered through seduction and deception.

Seduction and deception.

Sound familiar?

O foolish Christians! You are Eve all over again. You have a Bible to learn God’s Truth from – you have a direct line to God in prayer, courtesy of Jesus – but you look instead to a fictional “dark gospel” dictated by a fictional emissary of hell. And it’s not enough that you yourself fall under the spell – you have to drag others down with you. You gush over the demon. You are in awe of the demon. You secretly admire the demon’s intellect. “Such a wise demon!”, you say to yourself. “If only everyone could learn from this demon!” And then you go and do the devil’s bidding and promote the film – even to children – as a Christian film, and you do it for free.

Hear that noise? That horrible sound? It’s the devil and his demons laughing at you.

Abominations come in all shapes and sizes. This film is an abomination. And like all abominations, it has no place in the heart, mind, home, or playlist of a follower of Jesus.

We are not to talk to demons. We are not to be curious about demons. We are not to “study” demons or take a course on them. We are to do as Jesus did when it comes to demons, which means we are to have no conversation with them at all other than to ask their name and then to state their name when we cast them out. That is the only interaction we’re to have with demons.

If you’ve been bewitched and beguiled by the movie, get down on your face and repent. Get down on your face right now and repent. You are loved by God and hated by the devil, and yet you’ve become a cheerleader for Satan. Give your head a shake, O foolish Christian! Open your eyes, O foolish Christian!

Get down on your face and repent, O foolish Christian, before it’s too late!