Exodus 22:18 — Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

There’s a new TV series being trailed  — “Good Witch will take viewers on a new magical journey with Cassie Nightingale and her daughter Grace. When Dr. Sam Radford moves in next door to Grey House with his son, they are charmed by the ‘magical’ mother-daughter duo.“

Now I don’t want to get too serious about all this — I liked the Harry Potter books, and who wasn’t enchanted by starred Elizabeth Montgomery and Dick York in “Bewitched”? — but there’s no such thing as a Good Witch. (Pauses for terrible pun … The only good witch is a sandwich …)Here’s the thing … far to many people nowadays seem to believe that there are good witches, and bad witches too. And that means that one of two things is happening.Either these folks are placing faith something that is completely bogus, a total illusion …or something far worse, they’re placing faith in something wholly evil.

There’s an underlying problem and it’s increasingly pervasive. It’s the problem of the distorted worldview.Most of you reading this will share my worldview —  Man is God’s creation, designed to govern the world and live in fellowship with Him. Adam and Eve broke God’s law and placed the whole world under a curse. God’s Son Jesus, the God-man, died on the cross and redeemed the world.  On a day of His choosing, God will restore His creation to its former perfect state.

Where the believers in witchcraft have a clearly articulated worldview it includes the idea of an indeterminate divine principle, with male and female aspects. But the worldview also believes that the divine spark is in everything and everyone … man is divine and there is no “Satan”. The moral code is built around the idea of “do what you like, as long as it harms nobody else”. There is no idea that man is sinful and in need of redemption, or of “heaven” or “hell”. Instead there are ideas of karma and reincarnation. It’s really a very imprecise and wooly worldview.

There’s a root cause to the spread of fluffy worldview. The Christian worldview has been explicitly driven out of schools under pressure from small but vociferous interest groups. Competing worldviews have been spread through media and other outlets, and a flabby tolerance has replaced a willingness to provide young people with religious and moral direction.

So I have to admit … I am bothered by the spread of “occult” movies and TV series — not because any one of them is particularly harmful in itself, but because of the collective sickness they represent.