People Looking To Take Offense Will Find It

[Esaias]

Originally Posted by mfblume

Some people are witch hunters. You'll find these sorts of people read a lot of information about paganism and cults, and are simply and unhealthily too much on the lookout for that sort of thing.

I knew a couple like that. They would more quickly point out the witchcraft in rock music to sinners before they would relate the gospel.

The 'witch hunters' are usually people who have no idea what they are talking about. People like myself, however, who came into the Truth from a background with the occult, are not 'witch hunters' but we certainly do notice a lot of things some folks might not otherwise.

For myself, going into a church meeting, where the decor is generally darkened, with what to me (and obviously several others here on the board) look like pictures or paintings of pyramids, would certainly get my 'spidey senses' tingling, and make me pay very close attention to everything else going on, especially the music and the specific teaching/preaching being done. I would in fact be looking for other corroborating evidence. If I began to see a pattern of 'almost could be looks sorta like' new age type things, 'coincidences', I would probably just not come back. If however I saw nothing else amiss, but just the weird painting on the back wall, I would chock it up to either a)bad taste in art, or b)somebody there has some issues and they are slipping in unnoticed, possibly even unknown to themselves even.

You would be surprised how many people in Wiccan, neo-Pagan, and Satanic circles make it their 'mission' to get involved in churches in order to wreck havoc. Yes, it's not a silly conspiracy theory, it really happens. (Atheists sometimes do the same thing, by the way.)

A couple coming to a church and being disturbed by artwork that to them looks worldly and possibly occultic should not cause us to say 'Wow, what a bunch of weaklings, easily offended...' but it should cause us to follow Paul's example and teaching and consider how all eyes are on us and we should abstain from even the appearance of evil. Which is the greater problem, some Christians who are troubled by what they see? OR other Christians who could care less about offending their brethren?