Lutheran College Invites Demonic Influence

For Halloween, Concordia College (ELCA) in Moorhead, MN hosted a haunted house.  The haunted house was put on by two resident hall councils.  Part of the festivities for the night was offering students the chance to use an Ouija board.

An article by the school paper said, “A Ouija board (a board with letters, numbers, and ‘yes’ and ‘no’ that is often used in scary movies) was placed outside the entrance for students to try to get in touch with spirits if they chose to do so.” (see here)

For those of you that may not know, Ouija boards are occultic, and a form of sorcery and divination. Those type of things are “forbidden by Scripture for Christians to participate in. . .”  (See Can a Christian use an Ouija board?)

An Ouija board “is a portal that leads straight into the dark side where Satan and his demons roam. . .this device will literally, and I mean literally, open up a door and invite in some of the nastiest, foulest, and meanest demons that are in Satan’s kingdom.”  This is real and it is not something to “play around” with.  You should read this article if you doubt the danger involved with Ouija boards - The Extreme Dangers of the Ouija Board.  

The article in the Concordia College paper included a picture which shows students using the Ouija board.  The caption under the picture says, “Residents Matthew Burian and Alexander Hagen try out the Ouija board provided in Livedalen’s haunted maze.”  (Another picture included in the article shows a male student holding a knife to a bloodied female’s neck.)

This story is a prime piece of evidence that ELCA colleges, even though they love to advertise themselves as Christian colleges to financial contributing Lutheran church goers, often walk in opposition to Christian teaching, principles and practice.  In this instance, Concordia College is placing the spiritual well being of their students at risk, opening their lives up to spiritual darkness, demons and the devil.  This is pure evil.  Yet, Joe Dlugos, hall director of Livedalen is quoted as saying in the haunted house article, “Hall council is happy to offer a variety of activities and events to our residents.”