Stephen Phelan, communications director for Human Life International, is alerting families to the new edition designed to appeal to young girls. Lord only knows what answers the “spirits” will spell out for girls. One can easily imagine the spirits spelling out “Join N.O.W.” or “Read About Bella Abszug.”
Religious conservatives have launched a boycott, here.
Phelan warns that it is a “dangerous spiritual game . . . It’s not Monopoly. It really is a dangerous spiritual game and for [Hasbro] to treat it as just another game is quite dishonest.” He reminded young girls that the Bible says “not to mess with spirits” and that they could endanger their souls. (I cannot remember the “don’t mess with spirits” thing in the Bible but I do recall the mention of Hasbro in the Book of Revelation in discussing the Biblical Beast:
Revelation 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to play Quija:
Revelation 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he first spell the name of the Hasbro, or the number of his name on Quija.
Revelation 13:18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six which shall be spelled out in Quija at night during pajama parties and the little beasties shall be told not to tell their parents.
Phelan insists, for good reason, that “[a]ll Christians should know, well everyone should, that it’s opening up a person to attack, spiritually.” I wish I had a nickel for every drug addict and prostitute that I have met in criminal cases who decry the night their friends brought over that Quija board.
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