Christians are being warned against a “Christian Ouija board” being sold online. The product appears to have stemmed from a video posted online eight months ago on a YouTube channel with the handle “Holy Spirit Games.” The video features a man in a cheaply made Jesus costume using foul language and sexual innuendo to promote the “Holy Spirit Board.” The video appears to be meant as either some sort of parody or satire due to the man’s over-the-top performance, and laughing can be heard in the background from someone who may be filming the “ad.” The channel has 51 subscribers, and the ad has been viewed over six thousand times.

Joke or not, the board game itself is being sold on Amazon. “GET THE ANSWERS YOU NEED! – The Holy Spirit Board can answer all of life’s most important questions, straight from the man himself!” reads the game’s description. The game has 42 reviews, with 61 percent being 5-star ratings and 28 percent being 1-star ratings. One 1-star rating headlines the rating with “I Thought This Was a Joke.” “I really thought this had to be a joke, but it is really for sale,” the review says. “This is like selling ice in Alaska-no one would buy that. Same here-you want to contact the Holy Spirit? PRAY. For goodness sake, it’s free. You think God can’t hear you? There’s no place He doesn’t see and hear everything. I promise He even hears your thoughts. Save $30 and buy a Bible with it.” Most 5-star reviews appear to be tongue-in-cheek, with one reviewer writing, “After setting it up, at 1 min and 16 seconds, I made contact!!!! It’s been a while now, and I feel that we are connecting so well. I asked [Jesus] to move in with me yesterday, and now he seems to be avoiding me again…… Did I come on too strong?” Another reviewer stated they bought the board as a joke. “A friend who collects Ouija boards was really excited to see this amusing and unique Ouija equivalent! Their online video made the product all the more enjoyable!”

Exorcist Roman Catholic Father Ernesto Caro of the Diocese of Monterey, Mexico, stated that encouraging people to speak with spirits is no laughing matter. “The devil is always looking for different ways he can trap all the victims that he can take for him. And this is one,” he said in an interview on “News Nightly.” Taking the board game’s claims of connecting users to God seriously, Caro warned that users might “think that it is God who is talking with you, but it’s not. If the [Ouija board] triangle is moving by itself, be careful. It’s not God who is moving; it’s the devil.” One user on Amazon echoes Caro’s statements, writing, “To those who mock, many, many Christians had a life before they were Christians, and of those, many are well-studied in the occult or have been involved in it before they were Christians. They understand what is actually going on here better than most. So you may try to act smart and be rude, but you are the one in the wrong here. Those in Christianity, as within any religion, have the right to protect and call out attacks and inconsistencies that are easily proven wrong according to their religion because this product is 100% incorrect in advertising and a sneaky way to get those Christians involved in something that is against their Bible.” Overall, the game seems to be made as a mockery, but that doesn’t make the dangers of Ouija any less real. Nor does it make mocking the reality of demons any less real. As Galatians 6:7 says: “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”