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Christians have a broad range of attitudes toward the “supernatural” in society—mostly in fiction, film, and gaming. To hark back to the 70’s and 80’s, many Christians were concerned about Ouija boards, 8-balls, Dungeons and Dragons, and the symbology of the traditional card deck. That expanded to various heavy metal rock groups and “backward masking.”
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What do you think of when you hear the word “supernatural”? For many, I suspect it’s a novel, movie, or TV series—or more than one. In the West, we have for a long time now associated “supernatural” with terms like unexplained, unusual, and paranormal.
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My earliest memory of a “witch” is of a pretty young lady named Samantha making magical things happen by twitching her nose with a quirky sound effect. It was the 1964 sitcom, “Bewitched.” We watched the reruns over and over. Another childhood memory is of the cackling crone in the Bugs Bunny cartoons, who left hair pins in her wake whenever she ran. I later learned she also had a name: Witch Hazel.
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Various studies over the past decade or so have found that increasing numbers of people think of themselves as “spiritual but not religious.”
