Another multi-billion dollar industry that dominates the market today is occult-oriented role-playing games. These role-playing games foster a sense of personal power and authority through identification with the characters portrayed in the game.
Some psychologists have warned that imagination and make-believe can cause children to emotionally experience or simulate the role being played. This becomes dangerous when the acts are violent in nature. Tactics such as inflicting pain through slashing, psychic power, fits of rage, and "draining the life force" out of an opponent belong to Satan, not to God.
Role-playing games have also been known to desensitize children toward violence. Distinctions between good and evil often become blurred. Therefore, what was once unthinkable behavior becomes acceptable or normal behavior. This is known as gradualism.
Remember the parable of the frog that jumped into a cooking pot on the stove? At first, the water was temperate, even comfortable for the frog that was stranded in this strange human abode. Gradually, the temperature became warmer and more uncomfortable. When the water began to boil, the frog didn't notice. It never felt the increasing heat. Despite the fact its skin was burning, the frog wasn't alarmed. Not long thereafter, the frog lost consciousness and became dinner that night. In a similar way, what is true in the physical sense is true in the spiritual or ethical sense. In a culture of increasing darkness and depravity, it's easy to drift along, unaware of impending danger, until it's too late.
While many Christians would not allow their children to bring a pentagram or a voodoo doll into their homes, they have unknowingly opened a door to the demonic simply by allowing their children to read books, watch programs or play games that are pagan, and that employ principles practiced in occult worship.
It is surprising how many Christians are deceived concerning the dangers of witchcraft and sorcery. God does not consider sorcery or witchcraft to be innocent fun for children or adults. He confronts it in the strongest of terms. So, let's take a moment to examine how seriously God views this sin.
Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after them, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God. (Leviticus 19:31)
There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. For all who do these things is an abomination to the Lord, and because of these abominations the Lord your God drives them out before you. (Deuteronomy 18:10-12)