This Week in Witchcraft (S1 E19)

Welcome to This Week in Witchcraft. The elements have been conquered with intense heat, and witchcraft has become more cosmopolitan. Can you spot it out in the wild?

I'm Dylan Hamilton, and with me are Michael Durham and Andrew Hudson. Michael has a bit of witchcraft that Joel has found for us, and he's going to read it off for us, and then we're going to try and analyze it and answer it.

Redefining Household, Home, and Family

I appreciate Joel bringing some content, always. He says, I was watching a Lego video and they were promoting their LGBTQ creators, focusing on their small creations that represent how they feel inside.

One was a small castle, and how this creator felt safe in their home to express himself. This priggled me as a soon-to-be husband, as I will have my own castle to protect, manage, and uphold. And I found it ironic how they were promoting safety in the home, and yet twist the home into something that is not a place that is not safe to raise children for a company that aims their products at boys and girls.

How is the term household being changed today, and what do you all think about this? That was an excellent observation and question. You know, we see things out in the wild, and it kind of gets our minds thinking a little.

Bit.

I mean, what kind of message is being given here? It has been of utmost importance in pagan society and its oneness and its fungibility to recreate the idea of household, home, family, into whatever you want it to be.

For example, in Canada today, you can create a family simply by contract. That four individuals of four different addresses from different parts of wherever can simply agree together to be called family, four different guardians for a single child.

A child can have four guardians, it doesn't matter where they live or what their genders.

Are, or whatever.

And this is called family. This is called a household. And it's interesting that somebody is taking the language of, my home is my castle, the idea of a defined space that is meant for, that is primarily applied to, family and according to the scriptures, where there is a husband and a wife, and they are parents of children.

This is the biblical norm. And where in the world did we ever get the idea that a man's house is his castle? We got that from the Bible. We got that from the scripture. We got that from the clarification of family government over and against other spheres of authority.

But here's somebody talking about home and talking about, you know, their home is their castle and they're trying to redefine what home is and household is and family is and.

So on.

One wonders why, why is the name still important? Why is the concept still valued? You know, what drives somebody who, who rejects the categories given to us by scripture about what a man is and what a woman is and what a family is?

Why would they still want to be talking about home and household and family in positive.

Fashion?

Well, in this witchcraft and the demonic appropriation of alternate authority and the redefinition of these words is the, the enchantment of the word family or home or household with new meanings and whatever the meaning is that you want it to be.

You know, I'm a family of one. You know, are you also a married bachelor? I mean, what does it, what does that mean? We are a family. Um, people use that term all over the place to not talk, not talking about family in the biblical sense, but using it in a very non biblical sense, trying to give a sense of legitimacy very often to brokenness and pain or sexual immorality and so on.

So what do we think about this? Is any home, is any house, is any kind of family legitimate according to the scriptures?

No.

Further, is home to be thought of as a place of safety where whatever I think and how I feel and whatever I do must also always be affirmed. I mean, that's the idea, right? You know, if I go home, nobody will ever say anything contradictory.

Home is where nobody will tell me not to do or feel what I do and feel. Home is where there is no resistance to anything I think.

And when we think of castles, do we think of a place where there's no ruler? I mean, that's what we're dealing with, right? We're dealing with people who do not want to be ruled outside of themselves at all.

It's like the poem Invictus, right? I am the captain of my soul. And when we think of a castle, we think of rule. We think of a king and a queen who inhabits that castle. And they're using something that is pointing back to the reality of everything that is baked into creation and trying to appropriate it and twist it all to have their own way.

And that's probably the irony you're seeing in it.

What I find ironic is we have these Lego creators. Let's use a small C for that.

Creators.

What do they create? The creatures they create in their own image are like Frankenstein's monster. Terrible, disgusting creatures. How can one even build Legos without the truth of male and female? What do they stack?

Stack them in piles?

You're saying it's an interlocking design that you have to follow?

Okay.

It's printed. It's imprinted even in their plastic. The design of the creator, not their creators.

It was a few years back, but I did a movie review on a child's cartoon called Ferdinand. It was a movie. And in this film, the major theme that came across again and again and again is family is where you belong.

Family is where everybody loves you. This is home where you're completely affirmed in what you are, no matter if what you are is completely opposite to what your nature or your design is. And the whole film is about creatures acting in ways that are not in accord with their purpose and their design and their nature.

And that only when everybody is fully affirmed in that, does everything turn out okay. And then the hero of Ferdinand is brought through his entire story arc as a Christ figure in which he's the one who brings the enlightenment that everybody else needs through his self-sacrifice.

And as far as storytelling is done, somebody applied their abilities, which were apparent. They did a good job, but they told a very bad story. They made their lie very creative and they made it pretty and they made it humorous,.

But it was still a lie.

And Lego creators, I mean, you can create something that's interesting and perhaps unique and clever, but that doesn't make it true.

This idea of the castle that's being created by this small key, small C creator is a projection of a safe space, which they don't want to remain in just their castle. They want your castle to reflect their castle.

Their tyranny does not merely extend to only their castle. They projected into the public space as well.

And a reason for that that I can see is they're not going to be about a fruitful castle. How are they going to create more castles like their own? They're going to have to appropriate yours. They're going to have to take your children and they're going to have to teach your and disciple your children rather than being able to create one of their own.

And I think castles that are fruitful are God given and they are fruitful by God's blessing when everything is ordered correctly within the home, according to God's standards. And they know intrinsically that their castle falls before it ever begins.

So they have to appropriate yours in order to project theirs into the future. They do not have generations. And they actually have to co-op a Christian, I would say, a Christian tactic of adoption. They have to co-op adoption in order to push theirs any generations further than themselves.

And they're stealing that from us as well.

Media Recommendations: Bavinck, NewPipe, and PictureThis

Well, Joel, we really appreciate the observation and the question. It's important to consider how family and home and household are being redefined by the witchcraft of the paganism we encountered today.

Amen. And I guess that's going to wrap it up for us. So we're going to go on to what we're going to recommend for content going forward. Michael?

I have another book by Herman Bavink. It's a collection of essays on religion, science, and society. And there's a lot of different topics in here from classical education to Christian principles and social relationships and the topic of evolution.

And I'm currently in an essay of beauty and aesthetics. But what I enjoy most about this book is the eulogy that is given at the beginning on the occasion of Herman Bavink's death. Getting to hear somebody's assessment of his life and insights into his, into the grace of God at work in Herman Bavink's life.

It was very enjoyable.

There are times that I don't feel like paying for data. I have a cell phone plan that I get through Google. Speaking of using infrastructure, that's, that's pagan, but I don't like paying for data that I'm not going to use.

So I don't, I don't have their unlimited data plan. And because of that, it has led me to change some of my behaviors. One of which being how I consume content. Well, I happened to find an app on Android called New Pipe, which gives me the ability to download either video or audio from YouTube and save it for a later time.

I use that in many ways to replace some of the content that I had previously just relied on streaming all the time. It's a helpful tool to download those bits of content on YouTube that you may want to save for later, not necessarily cold storage, but for you to come back to time and time again, especially those bits of content that proclaim Christ and are unapologetic, which may be taken down at some time in the future.

I do not trust YouTube or Google. So it's called New Pipe and I use it to consume data offline and save it for later.

And then, well, I'm going to recommend a tool too. It's an app as well on, I get mine through Apple podcast since I have an iPhone, but it's called picture this. And it is a, it's a software that recognizes from a photo plants around your home or your homestead or your farm or whatever you may have, in order to find natural reoccurring species that you may be able to utilize, avoid or treat.

And I've been using it. You can ask my wife. I've got time during the day where I'll walk around and see something new that I haven't picked up on before around our property. And I'll just give it a little shot.

And according to a, a poll on Bitcoin, Twitter homes, Bitcoin and homesteading Twitter, it's about 85 accurate according to their estimation. So it's, it's usually accurate, but I wouldn't use it on like funguses too often because you can get in some real trouble with that.

But I'll tell you this, it can accurately identify poison Ivy and Virginia creeper, which is, it's a very, very helpful thing for me.

And that wraps it up for today. We're always very thankful for our listeners tuning in every week and for supporting us by rating, reviewing, and sharing the show. And we hope you can join us again for another week of uncovering and rebuking witchcraft in the modern world.