Are tarot cards evil?
Deuteronomy 18
9. When you come into the land which the LORD, your God, is giving you, you shall not learn to imitate the abominations of the nations there.
10. Let there not be found among you anyone who causes their son or daughter to pass through the fire,* or practices divination, or is a soothsayer, augur, or sorcerer,
11. or who casts spells, consults ghosts and spirits, or seeks oracles from the dead.
12. Anyone who does such things is an abomination to the LORD, and because of such abominations the LORD, your God, is dispossessing them before you.
13. You must be altogether sincere with the LORD, your God.
14. Although these nations whom you are about to dispossess listen to their soothsayers and diviners, the LORD, your God, will not permit you to do so.
15. A prophet like me will the LORD, your God, raise up for you from among your own kindred; that is the one to whom you shall listen.
Despite the admonishment, the Hebrews regularly abandoned the Yahweh religion for Canaanite cults. The Canaanite religion focussed on the god Baal, and the Hebrews frequently disassembled their Yahweh altars and built Baal altars.
The Hebrew Bible uses the term Baal in reference to various Levantine deities, often with application towards Hadad, who was decried as a false god. That use was taken over into Christianity and Islam, sometimes under the form Beelzebub in demonology.
Tarot cards are not anything to do with demons. They’re artworks for meditation that can help us understand ourselves and our relationship to god and more peacefully move through the world.
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