{"id":18424,"date":"2026-08-11T09:24:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T16:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=18424"},"modified":"2026-08-11T09:24:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T16:24:03","slug":"witchcraft-courses-rapidly-expand-across-university-campuses-outnumbering-christianity-8-to-1-at-arizona-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2026\/08\/11\/witchcraft-courses-rapidly-expand-across-university-campuses-outnumbering-christianity-8-to-1-at-arizona-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Witchcraft Courses Rapidly Expand Across University Campuses, Outnumbering Christianity 8 to 1 At Arizona State"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Basically, we’re talking about spiritual supernatural activity which has two sources, God or demons. God does as He wills, but demons are only allowed to do what is permitted by God. The problem is that when you mess with the fallen angels, you’re inviting them in and you will end up tormented and possibly possessed. Some in our world make that deal for fame, success, riches, power… which seems to be successful for a while, but some end up destroyed pretty quickly, perhaps based on their usefulness to the demons running the world. And worth pointing out that colleges and universities are a demonic scheme to begin with, taking young people away from their parents so they can indoctrinate them into a worldview to make them compliant workers while destroying their morality, making them a slave to sin. And as the rot in our society festers, it is showing up in higher education without unbounded. Even many of the seminaries are dominated by liberal theologians corrupting the young like secular institutions. And you end up a lifelong debtor paying for your own psychological manipulation paving the way for your destruction if God doesn’t save you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This fall, Arizona State University is offering eight courses with words like witchcraft<\/em>, magic<\/em>, or the occult<\/em> in the title. Meanwhile, one course will cover the bedrock faith of Western Civilization. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThink about that for a moment,\u201d writes Owen Anderson, who teaches philosophy and religion at the university, at The Blaze. \u201cAt one of the largest public universities in the country, students can choose from a small festival of courses on witchcraft, while Christianity receives [only] a single titled course.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A quick web search reveals other major universities across the country are offering similar classes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

ASU might argue the courses fall under the classification of history and do not promote witchcraft and the occult. But at least one course syllabus<\/a> does not bear that out. For example, the syllabus for \u201cWitchcraft and Heresy in Europe\u201d says the class will examine how the identity of the heretic and the witch was constructed against its binary opposite, the \u201corthodox\u201d Christian. It then turns to \u201creligious Othering,\u201d especially \u201cthe female as Other,\u201d and asks students to explain how centuries-old witch persecutions continue to shape their own lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA student scrolling through the catalog may think, Witchcraft<\/em>? That sounds like an interesting history class,<\/em>\u201d Anderson says. \u201cWhat the description does not announce plainly is that the course has already selected its moral and political framework before the first reading begins.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to history, courses in witchcraft approach the topic through anthropology, religion, literature, and media. The University of New Mexico offers \u201cLegacy of Witchcraft in Popular Culture.\u201d Duke University offers \u201cNeopaganism and Witchcraft\u201d as part of its religious studies. Universities in the U.K. are also offering classes on the occult. The University of Exeter features a dedicated master of arts degree program focused entirely on magic and occult sciences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fact that these courses are showing up in university studies is a reminder that secular is not neutral, Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis noted in a 2024 article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cAs our culture abandons its once Christianized foundation, it doesn\u2019t become some kind of neutral space with a nebulous worldview divorced from spirituality and grounded in \u2018science\u2019 and \u2018reason,\u2019\u201d Ham wrote. \u201cThat\u2019s because, contrary to the naturalistic view, we are not mere biological beings. We are a body and a soul. God created us to yearn for Him and to desire meaning and purpose\u2014things the naturalistic, atheistic worldview cannot provide.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jac Marino, a former self-described sorceress who practiced magic for decades until she met Jesus, says that while she doesn\u2019t expect secular universities to hold to the same standards as Christian ones, she is concerned about the message universities are sending through these classes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese courses present the lure or bait (which is often that you have the power inside of you to be like God, and that this power can be unlocked through embracing forbidden knowledge) while hiding the hook (these practices that God forbids lead to our destruction),\u201d Marino told Decision<\/em>. \u201cThe Bible makes clear that \u2018each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death\u2019\u201d (James 1:14-15). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ham refers to the things of the occult world as \u201cbroken cisterns\u201d that don\u2019t satisfy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnyone who goes to the waters of witchcraft, shamanism, divination, psychic readings, and so on will be thirsty again,\u201d Ham said. \u201cThose \u2018broken cisterns\u2019 don\u2019t satisfy. But Jesus does. He is the water of life that will never leave you thirsty. He is the bread of life that lasts forever. He gives meaning and purpose for now and eternity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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