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Podcast: Fantastical Truth
Episode: 38. Should Christians Enjoy Fantasy with Fictional Magic? Part 2
Description: Want to be perfectly safe? Want to guarantee your own life, foretell the future, and control your world? Want to … become a god? Then just follow this four-step method:
Believe a lie.
Practice some occult method that the real God forbids.
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Profit.
Of course, this kind of idolatrous witchcraft doesn’t work in reality. It also isn’t usually the same as reading a fantasy novel with “magic” people, practices, or things in it. But what if Christians can’t tell them apart? Or feel genuinely tempted by the association between occult magic God forbids, and fictional magic that y...