About Books, Games, Movies that are consecrated to evil

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Is this really a thing?

A concerned party having gone through my library of entertainment choices has voiced concerns about certain items that I have purchased. To me these things seem benign but I am being told that they possess an INTRINSIC SUPERNATURAL ABILITY that allows the devil or his influence to enter my home. I am told that the creators of this works have consecrated these items to the devil and as evidence, they have on the packaging some gruesome imagery, some with pentagrams, pictures of creatures with horns or the media involves a story or gameplay where spells are being cast or the objectionable titles of the works themselves seem make this consecration evident.

These PC games made the list of objectionable material: ( these are old games).
  1. Doom ( and its successors ) → first person shooter game where the player character fights through the onslaught of demonic enemies to keep them from attacking Earth.
    Objection: Packaging art with gruesome images and gameplay with use of pentagrams for demon teleportation.
  2. Diablo → The plot centers around a player character undertaking a series of quests to free a town from Hell-spawned evil, descending through twelve levels of dungeons into Hell itself (the final four levels), where the player battles the titular character, Diablo, Lord of Terror — one of the seven “Evils”, devils who once ruled Hell.
    Objection: Packaging art with gruesome images, and well the title
  3. Any game, movie or book with Vampire in its title
    Objection: Vampires
  4. Baldur’s Gate and its successors → this is a dungeons and dragons style Role Playing Game PC game.
    Objection: Gameplay involves spell casting for example Fireball, StoneSkin, Ice Storm, etc
  5. Sin → a first person shooter where the hero is tasked to rid the city of a recreational drug that may be tied to the rival biotechnology megacorporation, SinTek.
    Objection: the title Sin
  6. Bully → a student discovers that the school is filled with bullies, and becomes determined to bring peace, ultimately becoming more respected.
    Objection → Title and Bullworth Academy ( the school ) has a bull on its crest.
These books made the list:
  1. Any work by R.A. Salvatore regarding the hero Drizzt Do’Urden.-> Drizzt Do’Urden, is an unconventional dark elf who defied the expectations of his race and society to live a life of truth-seeking, honesty, integrity, and justice in the surface world. He rejected the tenets of the drow’s goddess and abhorred the self-serving, ambitious nature of his race. But in ascending to a new life on the surface, he faced extreme prejudice and discrimination.
    Objection-> Drizzt looks like an evil character, and this is Dungeons and Dragons
My questions:
  1. Is there any truth to the supposition that these or any other similar works are consecrated to the devil based on any evidence ( even evidence that I am not aware of )?
 

This is an extension to the post as there is a word limit:​

IF the answer above is YES:
  1. Can possession of the items that comprise these things ( books, CD’s, packaging ) pose a supernatural threat that allows the devil or his influence to enter my home? Can such possession have physical manifestations, such as making someboy sick, erratic, or whatever other visible signs?
  2. If possession of a physical object is criteria for bringing in such diabolic channels of influence into the home, since something physical has to be consecrated, then in this day and age where media is cloud based and downloaded only to computers wether digital books or PC games or streaming movies, then where does this evil reside?
  3. If the objective of such evil consecration is to do harm, doesn’t it make more sense to consecrate something that is ordinary, present in huge quantities, pervasive, and free such as for example AIR. Then everybody who breathes, is damned.
  4. If the creators of such media wanted the target audience to accept the consecrated item, wouldn’t it make more sense for such evil works to be presented in a benign or attractive packaging that will be more appealing to the target audience instead of being shunned because it is perceived as offensive? For example, if the Trojan horse had a message painted all over it that said “Greek soldiers inside to kill you tonight”, I doubt that the Trojans would have accepted it.
Please provide your insight.
 
Dude, you’re fine. Those things aren’t ‘consecrated to evil.’ They’re just objects. You’re over thinking it.
 
dndgamer said:
A concerned party having gone through my library of entertainment choices has voiced concerns about certain items that I have purchased.
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This “concerned party” sounds like a very superstitious person. Pay no mind, and tell them they can stay out of your stuff, thank you very much.
 
dndgamer said:
Objection → Title and Bullworth Academy ( the school ) has a bull on its crest.
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Hahaha, this one totally threw me for a loop. Why is that objectionable, exactly?

Anyway, yes, as others have said you are putting way too much thought into this. This “concerned party” sounds like they need to relax a bit. This is just superstitious silliness.
 
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Bullworth Academy ( the school ) has a bull on its crest.
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The bull is an ancient Christian symbol of redemption and eternal life through sacrifice, and is also the symbol for the evangelist St. Luke.

Whoever you are discussing this with really should go speak to a priest (assuming they are Catholic) and get over the superstition that seems to be ruling their life.
 
I know a bunch of people who play video games all the time, and I myself have read some of the Drizzt books. Not one of my friend group (the college table-top games club aka nerd club) has been possessed or haunted or anything. Even the Wiccan.
Personally, I’d tell the “concerned party” to mind their own business and leave your personal effects alone.
 
This! Keep this person out of your stuff! Or as I’ve sometimes said, “my stuff may be junk…but it’s MY junk!”
 
dndgamer said:
Is this really a thing?
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A lot of people today are happy to dismiss these things, but the common opinion of the catholic exorcists is that demons are indeed able to “attach” themselves to objects in rare circumstances.

It is extremely rare, however, and if someone ever brought a cursed item into their house accidentally they would probably find out about it pretty quickly. The rule of thumb is that if you don’t see anything, there is nothing there. Still, if you have books with occult symbols I would personally get rid of it anyway for other reasons.

As for your questions: 2: Yes, those are the common symptoms of demonic infestation. If you have noticed something like that then it might be a good idea to have a priest bless your house. 3: It’s impossible to curse a downloadable file. 4: According to an exorcist called Fr. Chad Ripperger there does indeed exist a phenomenon called “demons of the air”. It should be noted that, like all supernatural things, this is extremely rare.
  1. I have heard a story of something like that, where a woman was asking a priest to exorcise her house because she believed it had become infested, but the priest wasn’t able to find any signs of this. As a precaution he told her to get rid of all the New Age stuff she had recently bought, which included what looked like a harmless statue of an elf. When she was going to remove it she accidentally dropped it on the ground which smashed it to pieces, and inside she found smaller statute. This other statue depicted a headless priest behind an altar, and was clearly a satanic symbol someone had hidden in what looked like an innocent statue.
 
It is simply marketing and stories. Should these games and books tempt you to sin, do not play or read them.
 
And vampire stories (especially the granddaddy of them all, Dracula) have often used Christian symbology in how the vampire is defeated.
 
These are actually old PC games I bought back in the day when I used to go to Electronics Boutique and sort through the cheap second hand stuff. I was away from the gaming scene for a while pursuing other interests and work and when I returned to gaming ( I am 50 years old now), I shifted to full digital media with using clients like Steam, Uplay, Epic Games Launcher to run games. None of the games that I purchased in recent years are in any physical packaging anymore. My gaming laptop does not even have a CD or DVD drive. All you need to do now is to buy a license key from Steam or other gaming sites, activate the game and download it from Steam. It grants you a license to play the game but not really own it as you cannot sell your license key. I have rebought some of the older games from Steam and GOG and Fanatical. They are all unbelievably cheap ( from 1 to 10 dollars ) considering with the packaging back in the day you shelled out as much as 50 or 60 dollars per game.

I did the same approach with books ever since I bought my first Nook tablet. I stopped buying paperback books then and now I have quite a collection of Fantasy such as Dungeons and Dragons style stories along with other science fiction books in Ebook format. Drizzt is my favorite character.

I do stay away from stories that involve real life demonic possession or haunting. But vampires and werewolves, I don’t really believe in and I do consume those types of stories.
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It’s impossible to curse a downloadable file.
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This means then that I do not run the peril of accidentally downloading a cursed item since I am fully digital as far as the media that I buy.

The games and books that I mentioned in my initial post has been in a cabinet for the past 10-15 years with no ill effects as observed by me. I have not felt anything supernatural or ominous or scary when playing these games or reading these books. I enjoyed the Lord of the Rings and the Harry Potter series.

I recognize the danger with owning a Ouija board or Tarot cards or books on Witchcraft ( I own none of those) and I will never buy an antique item because it might be cursed and I will not buy an old house ( what’s in the walls? Cask of Amontillado ) especially one with a cellar and I stay away from dolls especially those creepy ones made of porcelain with the realistic eyes ( who knows what they are doing at night ).

But putting books and games and movies in the same category and danger as an Ouija board or Tarot cards seems to be a bit far fetched.

Question: Do the catholic exorcists actually support the notion that some popular media with physical form (packaging, CD, paperback, DVD) have "supernatural properties as a consequence of evil consecration by satanists( who else would do it?) "? If so, is there any evidence to support that claim?
 
POST TOO LONG, continued:

Thanks for all your replies. I do believe more than ever that these items are benign. Now I am trying to find out where such notion of their supernatural danger has originated from. The concerned party who pointed out the danger to me is a well informed devout Catholic who firmly believes in the supernatural danger that these things pose. I think the notion started after watching some of the exorcist videos in youtube by Fr. Chad Ripperger.
 
dndgamer said:
Do the catholic exorcists actually support the notion that some popular media with physical form (packaging, CD, paperback, DVD) have "supernatural properties as a consequence of evil consecration by satanists( who else would do it?) "? If so, is there any evidence to support that claim?
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Theoretically it is possible for a practitioner of the occult to curse any type of object by ritually consecrating it to Satan. There are some stories about satanists consecrating rosaries to Satan and what not, but I’ve never heard of any actual case where an exorcist discovered a demon that had entered a home or a person because of some benign object being consecrated such.

This is notable, because while anyone can say some words over a bunch of stuff to consecrate it, it seems that (when the cause is magical) it’s always the more difficult (and repulsive) rituals that are found to be the cause of demonic activity. So it seems safe to conclude that God either prevents most if not all curses on household items from taking place, or those curses have so little effect as to be completely unnoticeable and harmless.
dndgamer said:
I think the notion started after watching some of the exorcist videos in youtube by Fr. Chad Ripperger.
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Fr. Ripperger is a very intelligent man and has a lot of good information, but it can be easy to misinterpret what he says sometimes because he can get a bit carried away. I think he sometimes forgets that it isn’t obvious to all of his audience that what he’s describing are very rare occurrences, and not representative of his day to day job.
 
It’s just a hunch but it sounds like you’ve got a whole lot of entertainment products that could consume a lot of time. I hope I don’t sound condescending but practicing moderation with such entertainment could be a challenge. The games may be addictive by design.
 
Sounds like this concerned party hasn’t gotten over the Satanic Panic.
 
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I don’t know if the following relates specifically enough to you post, and subsequent question… but I do believe that it may be helpful to you. Music can be substituted by all art (IMO), including such as in your list. It’s a lengthy watch, but as real as it gets.


I wouldn’t pay much attention to the dismissive and sarcastic comments. It doesn’t have to be “consecrated,” to contain filth. If it has some filth, then it is all filth. What to make of that is up to you.
 
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I wouldn’t pay much attention to the dismissive and sarcastic comments. It doesn’t have to be “consecrated,” to contain filth. If it has some filth, then it is all filth. What to make of that is up to you.
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The key though is to be rational about it. I have scrupulosity so I know all about feeling I had to throw out or destroy some book or DVD because it was ‘evil’, only to be told by my spiritual director it wasn’t evil and I could have it.

Best to consult a priest you trust.
 
I agree, but one does not have to be scrupulous in order to strive towards the perfection that Christ calls us towards. I see a trend (especially in CAF) where anyone striving towards purity and holiness is automatically dismissed as scrupulous.

Either something is of God, or it isn’t. Just because something is tolerable doesnt mean that it’s ideal. The more progress that one could make towards perfection while on earth, the less that one will have to in purgatory.

Yes, it is important to consult with a trustworthy priest… preferably one like Fr. Ripperger, who won’t shy away from the hard, sobering truth.
 
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