By Kayla DeKraker
Can watching demonic things on TV can actually allow evil spirits into your home? Candace Cameron Bure thinks so.
“I’m like, you’re opening up a portal,” she said about watching demonic content. “Like, if you’re watching this or you’re playing this video game or whatever, like that’s a portal that could let stuff inside our home. Like, I don’t even want someone watching a scary movie in our house on the TV, because to me, that’s just a portal.”
Bure explained that because she’s in the film industry, she knows that, behind the scenes, the scary things in movies are fake and made up of lighting and makeup, but she believes watching it can still negatively impact people on a spiritual level.
“There’s still something that can be incredibly demonic while they’ve made it, and I feel like it’s a portal that gets opened up and let in,” Bure told her son Lev Bure and pastor Jonathan Pokluda on her podcast.
Pokluda explained that the devil tries to make people think it’s not really a big deal to watch scary things.
“He tries to disguise under that stuff. Like that’s what he wants you to feel. Like, if you ever are like, oh, I’m not. I’m not going to be impacted by that. That’s what Satan wants you to feel,” he said.
Pokluda also revealed he knows of actors who have done real witchcraft while making a film.
“I’ve heard of, you know, actors and actresses like learning witchcraft to better understand a role,” he explained. “Actually casting spells through the TV. They’re like real spells. They actually read the things. I’ve heard witches actually sound the alarm saying, ‘Hey, this is not okay, guys. You’re messing around with stuff. You don’t know what you’re messing around [with].’”
Bure added, “And so you’re speaking it into all these homes. If you’re watching it on TV. Like, those are real witchcraft words.”
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Ephesians 4:27 warns believers, “do not give the devil a foothold,” and some psychological studies prove that watching scary movies can do just that. One doctor revealed that horror movies can impact sleep and mental health in a negative way.
Dr. Pamela Rutledge, director of the Media Psychology Research Center, said, “Even the post-horror euphoria some feel is activating, not relaxing. Thus, even for those who enjoy the emotional roller coaster, horror and suspense films can make it harder to sleep.”
She also noted that horror flicks will impact people who already struggle with anxiety worse than others.
“Chronic anxiety increases the sensitivity to startle-eliciting stimuli, thus making people who are already stressed and anxious more likely to respond negatively,” she said.
Whether watching scary things opens a “portal” as Bure believes or not, focusing on evil is not what God desires for us. In Philippians 4:8, He tells us to think about “Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent or praiseworthy — think about such things.”
As His children, we should consume wholesome content that uplifts God and each other.
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