How to/Should I warn a Ouija board user

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I’m on another forum quite a bit. There is an acquaintance who posted a status that they have been using a board for two years and has several spirit friends. It’s my duty to warn them, or is it best to pray for them,?
 
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You can tell them the dangers, but some people just refuse to believe anything bad can happen, and others think it is “just entertainment.” So pray for them.
 
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And absolutely pray for them.
 
I sort of feel bad that people think they have spirit friends, it brings them comfort when in reality they are either demons are imagination.

Catholics’ spirit friends are the saints.
 
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I never understood how the folks that make Monopoly also made a devil conjuring game. I’ve never played the game but I’ve wondered what it actually entails.
 
When I was in elementary school, one of my classmates bragged to the class that he had gotten a ouija board for Christmas. Our teacher warned us that we shouldn’t play with ouija boards. It’s also ironic that such a gift would be given during a season when we celebrate Christ’s birth. At the time, I didn’t know the real spelling of the word for these boards. It’s pronounced, “Weejee” – that’s how she and the kid said it. But she did admonish us that people shouldn’t play around with them. Evidently, whoever gave one to this kid thought it was just a game. I’ve never had one, and don’t want one.
 
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I’m on another forum quite a bit. There is an acquaintance who posted a status that they have been using a board for two years and has several spirit friends. It’s my duty to warn them, or is it best to pray for them,?
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Just be truthful. tell this person that opens the door to the occult because it is engaging in the occult. Tell them this is against God’s Law and can be found in biblical passages.

Also direct them to Father Ripperger’s youtubes on keeping the devil out. He has some good youtubes on this topic as he is an Exorcist Priest.
 
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Approach the issue of their ‘friends’ the same way you would approach the issue of abusive or toxic human friends in their life. You can gently warn, it is up to them to act on those warning. Don’t alienate them because they will need you as a friend when things go bad.

Definitely pray for protection for them.
 
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I’m on another forum quite a bit. There is an acquaintance who posted a status that they have been using a board for two years and has several spirit friends. It’s my duty to warn them, or is it best to pray for them,?
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You have no pastoral jurisdiction over this person; you have no “duty” to warn everybody you “meet” on the internet any more than you have a “duty” to lecture everybody you encounter at church.

That doesn’t mean you couldn’t, only that you have no duty and need to use some judgment. I’d say to let it go unless the subject comes up or the forum is overtly Christian (such that the ouija board comment would be an open invitation to comments).

My take on ouija boards is that it is playing blindfolded on an interstate. Why would someone ever believe they have the slightest clue they know anything about the dangers they’re messing with or any control over the powers they’re inviting into their lives? You’re either in a ditch going nowhere or you’re in serious danger.
 
Too slow, too much randomness, and a lot of house rules make it worse.

If you like the game see if you can find a copy of Monopoly Tropical Tycoon. It’s one downside is it uses a DVD, I won’t pretend that’s not a huge downside since it ties you to a tv or laptop. The upsides to it are each player has a ‘role’, there’s a light/fun narrative to it, there’s more ways you can improve your properties than just houses/hotels. It may not replace Monopoly, and it’s out of print but usually not super pricey if you can find it.
 
It’s the opposite in fact - and Christianity is often laughed at and blamed for the world’s problems. There’s a ton of new agers, with a larger proportion of LGBT than most places I’d frequent online (this person is transgender too).
 
I certainly would never. I know what it could lead it. Someone tried warning the person actually with a “how do you know these spirits aren’t evil?” To which he did not reply.
 
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It’s the opposite in fact - and Christianity is often laughed at and blamed for the world’s problems. There’s a ton of new agers, with a larger proportion of LGBT than most places I’d frequent online (this person is transgender too).
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“Stop judging, that you may not be judged. For as you judge, so will you be judged, and the measure with which you measure will be measured out to you. Why do you notice the splinter in your brother’s eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove that splinter from your eye,’ while the wooden beam is in your eye? You hypocrite, remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then you will see clearly to remove the splinter from your brother’s eye. Do not give what is holy to dogs, or throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them underfoot, and turn and tear you to pieces." Matt. 7:1-6

The same passage that says not to judge also implies that we need to recognize a situation in which what we have to say is not going to be heard. I don’t think Our Lord was calling people pigs. I think he was saying it is important to recognize and respect that kind of situation for what it is.

Pray for them and everyone like them. We don’t see everything we ought to see, but what we see tells us who to pray for, don’t you think? Not to judge it, but, knowing what we are ourselves, to intercede for grace to touch the situation, which is only what we hope for ourselves when we are in error.
 
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