Ooh. I wasn't born yet in the 80's, but I distinctly remember a period in my childhood where rumours about Teletubbies being the spawn of the devil, or that various pop songs are actually demonic because if you play it backwards it can come up with some Satanic messages, would frequently pop up. Thankfully it never became a trend taken too seriously in my circle.
Although I wonder why people would prefer to see the devil everywhere rather than God. There's also a trend where, if someone accomplished something exceptional, people would say (sometimes jokingly, sometimes not) that they probably sold their soul to the devil for that ability, rather than seeing an image bearer of God exercising their God-given talents.
May the gift of discernment abound. I may add.. we can often know and discern symbols, personnel, companies, etc by their fruit.. character, pattern, clarity vs confusion, history, goals.
This is a helpful and humbling reminder. Many sincere believers truly wanted to guard holiness, yet fear sometimes replaced discernment. Your question beneath the article seems to be: How do we balance vigilance with wisdom without drifting into suspicion? Scripture gives a beautiful tension: “test all things; hold fast what is good” (1 Thess. 5:21), not panic, but careful evaluation rooted in truth and love.
I appreciate your point that symbols themselves don’t possess spiritual power. Biblically, idolatry and evil flow from the heart (Mark 7:21–23), not from shapes or logos. When we assign hidden evil without evidence, we risk bearing false witness and weakening our credibility before a watching world.
And yet, your article doesn’t dismiss spiritual reality; it rightly redirects it. Our battle isn’t detergent logos or imagined codes; it’s the very real work of loving people, resisting sin, and walking in Christ’s light (Eph. 6:12).
Perhaps the takeaway is simple but profound: fear shouts, but truth is patient. Discernment asks questions. Love verifies. Faith rests.
Thank you for calling believers back to both courage and clarity; a witness the world deeply needs.
Just like the now *negative* connotations that the rainbow has unjustly earned.
Exactly
Ooh. I wasn't born yet in the 80's, but I distinctly remember a period in my childhood where rumours about Teletubbies being the spawn of the devil, or that various pop songs are actually demonic because if you play it backwards it can come up with some Satanic messages, would frequently pop up. Thankfully it never became a trend taken too seriously in my circle.
Although I wonder why people would prefer to see the devil everywhere rather than God. There's also a trend where, if someone accomplished something exceptional, people would say (sometimes jokingly, sometimes not) that they probably sold their soul to the devil for that ability, rather than seeing an image bearer of God exercising their God-given talents.
The irony of it all is that the devil doesn’t have to do much to get us distracted from what’s actually important. We actually make his job easier.
He really doesn’t. We do most of the work ourselves
May the gift of discernment abound. I may add.. we can often know and discern symbols, personnel, companies, etc by their fruit.. character, pattern, clarity vs confusion, history, goals.
That’s crazy talk! How sad for humanity that some people are always going see the demonic in the first place…😿🙏✝️
Robert,
This is a helpful and humbling reminder. Many sincere believers truly wanted to guard holiness, yet fear sometimes replaced discernment. Your question beneath the article seems to be: How do we balance vigilance with wisdom without drifting into suspicion? Scripture gives a beautiful tension: “test all things; hold fast what is good” (1 Thess. 5:21), not panic, but careful evaluation rooted in truth and love.
I appreciate your point that symbols themselves don’t possess spiritual power. Biblically, idolatry and evil flow from the heart (Mark 7:21–23), not from shapes or logos. When we assign hidden evil without evidence, we risk bearing false witness and weakening our credibility before a watching world.
And yet, your article doesn’t dismiss spiritual reality; it rightly redirects it. Our battle isn’t detergent logos or imagined codes; it’s the very real work of loving people, resisting sin, and walking in Christ’s light (Eph. 6:12).
Perhaps the takeaway is simple but profound: fear shouts, but truth is patient. Discernment asks questions. Love verifies. Faith rests.
Thank you for calling believers back to both courage and clarity; a witness the world deeply needs.
Blessings,
Ze Selassie