I'm a "live and let live" sort, particularly when it comes to spiritual practice and belief. Everyone should be free to come to their personal spiritual path. Or not. I think atheism and agnosticism are valid choices as well. Not that anyone needs my approval.

However, some people are, um, obsessed and imbued with crusading spirit. I don't want to point any fingers but some American Christians are evil. I'm not using the term "evil" as a metaphor. I mean they actively seek the destruction anything not in complete accord with their very specific definition of Christianity and interpretation of the Bible. These are people who use their prayers as weapons. They call it "spiritual warfare". Some Christians use this phrase to refer to an inner spiritual fight to purify one's soul. That's cool. Others use the phrase in reference to an external fight against, well, pretty much everything.

Some people think the DemonBuster site is amusing. It has a certain retro feel to it with the fire and brimstone tone of itinerant revival preachers shouting. Digging a little deeper, I find some very disturbing bits of prayer, examples of amazingly vicious hatred. A page on Winning over Witchcraft contains the following:

Through the Blood of Jesus Christ we also bind up and destroy all their spirit-guides, helps, and shields of these workers of evil, and leave them without any strength - stripped of their evil power and influence.
In the name of Jesus Christ, and by the Blood of the Lamb, we now seal up their powers within themselves, so that they cannot use them on anyone, and that their works might be destroyed, in the hope that their souls might be saved for the glory of God. AMEN.

This may not strike you as very extreme but understand that their worldview imbues everything with evil. They believe they are under constant attack by Satanic forces, demons, witchcraft, etc. Apologies for the caps but, hey, that's part of the experience.

AS YOUR WAR CLUB AND WEAPONS OF WAR I BREAK DOWN, UNDAM, AND BLOW UP ALL WALLS OF PROTECTION AROUND ALL WITCHES, WARLOCKS, WIZARDS, SATANISTS, SORCERERS, AND THE LIKE, AND I BREAK THE POWER OF ALL CURSES, HEXES, VEXES, SPELLS, CHARMS, FETISHES, PSYCHIC PRAYERS, PSYCHIC THOUGHTS, ALL WITCHCRAFT, SORCERY, MAGIC, VOODOO, ALL MIND CONTROL, JINXES, POTIONS, BEWITCHMENTS, DEATH, DESTRUCTION, SICKNESS, PAIN, TORMENT, PSYCHIC POWER, PSYCHIC WARFARE, PRAYER CHAINS, INCENSE AND CANDLE BURNING, INCANTATIONS, CHANTING, UNGODLY BLESSINGS, HOODOO, CRYSTALS, ROOTWORKS, AND EVERYTHING ELSE BEING SENT MY WAY, OR MY FAMILY MEMBER'S WAY, OR ANY DELIVERANCE MINISTRIES WAY, AND I RETURN IT, AND THE DEMONS TO THE SENDER, SEVENFOLD, AND I BIND IT TO THEM BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS.

In their quest to protect themselves, their answer is to attack everyone. Their answer is to spew prayer bullets in a 360 degree circle around themselves. This is a siege mentality of the spirit. There is no mention of love or compassion. What I notice most is the hate, the focus on destroying all they designate evil (and there is much they think evil.) There's a saying that you will become part of the thing you hate passionately. This is the path of fear, the path of destruction, the path of contempt and evil.

I feel a wary pity for them. I wish them no ill-will yet they may see me as an enemy because in their world-view almost everyone is an enemy. I find it very sad, not amusing at all.

Here's one last quote on the "snares the devil uses". Please note that you may not think of yourself as a "witch" but, after refering to the list below, you may understand they think of you as evil. All it takes is playing cards or burning incense. I've emphasized a few I find interesting:

Witchcraft is the use of everything in the devil's arsenal to destroy any change of a human being coming into the full power of God. (To keep the person from being knowledgeable and powerful enough to "overcome" (defeat) him and his army of evil spirits.)

Occult means unseen, so all these practices are hidden snare to involve humans in the devil's world to make the human think that he, the human, has it all. Here is a partial list of snares the devil uses.

Occult Practices (partial listing): Fortune Telling, Ouija Board, Cards, Good Luck Charms, Seances, Edgar Cayce, Jeanne Dixon, Mind Control, Witchcraft, Four-leaf Clover, Rabbit Foot, Wishbone, ESP, Transcendental Meditation, Yoga, Hypnosis, Drugs - Tranquilizers and Pain Relievers, Incense, Dungeons and Dragons, Pendulum, Palm Reading, Automatic Handwriting, Pierced Ears, Horoscopes, Signs of the Zodiac, Voodoo, Magic, Levitation, Waterwitching, Tea Leaf Reading, Secret Organizations and Lodges, Eight Ball, Smoking, Chewing Tobacco, Dipping Snuff, Drinking Alcoholic Beverages, Kabala, Handwriting Analysis, Strychnine, Arsenic, Spirits of Gene and Chromosome Damage, Crystal Ball, Tarot Cards, Psychic Readings, Spiritualism, Sorcery - Drugs - Pharmakia, LSD, Rubik's Cube, Clairvoyance, Telepathy, Para-psychology, Enchantments, Potions, Ankh, Peace Sign, Star of David and Five Pointed Stars, Artifacts, Tatoos, Owls and Frogs, Snakes Self Realization, Deja-vu, Martial Arts, Buddism-zen, Hinduism, Taoism, Yin and Yang, Confucianism, Acupuncture, Hare Krishna, Bingo Gambling and Playing Cards Gambling, Astral Projection, Eckankar, Reincarnation, Arthur Ford, Ruth Montgomery, Divining for Metal or Minerals or Anything Else, Psychosybernetics, Mind over Matter, Pyramid Power, UFO, Trances, Dolls (Originated in Voodoo), Psychometry, Psychic Predictions, Clairaudience, Second Sight, Auras, Metaphysics, Mental Science, Vision, Superstition, Fetishes, Runes, Amulets, Talismans, Satanism, Indian Witchcraft, Sun or Moon Worship, Spiritual Healing, Italian Horn, Indian Religions, Warpaint, Maize Fertility, Christian Science Healing, Omens, Karma, Rock and Roll, Mediums, Hex Signs, "Jesus" Rock and Roll, Itial, Irish, Gypsy, German, Etc., - Witchcraft, Rappings, Poltergeists, Haunted Houses, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Tolkien, Conjuration, Incantation, Idolatry, TV Shows like "Merlin", Walt Disney, Rose Mary's Baby, Reading Hari, Biofeedback.