In his Easter message this weekend, the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney Dr Peter Jensen has warned of the occult.
The Archbishop is particularly concerned about people using the supernatural to contact deceased loved ones.
That’s right dear reader, one of the leading Christians in the country, with a pendant hanging from his neck showing a deceased person on a cross, during a festival celebrating the alleged resurrection of said dead person some 
2000 years ago, tells his congregation that to believe someone could establish contact with people who passed away is very silly, supernatural, indeed witchcraft. Mwuahh ha, ha, ha, that is delicious.
A man whose whole professional reality is based on being able to communicate with a dead person, whose religion is based on the idea to promise a life after death, argues that we should be concerned about people trying to contact the deceased. The butcher telling shoppers not to make gravy.
The Archbishop then continued his sermon by sharing with his sheeple the initial finding of his investigation into the phenomenon of people evoking the spirits:
Dr Jensen told ABC radio's AM program there has been a surge of interest non-traditional religions.
"There's become a great deal more freedom than there used to be decades ago, with mind and spirit stuff; new age religions," he said.
"All the sort of stuff you see very prominently in book stores.”
Competition angst, that’s what this is, and as per Religion 101, competition needs to be stomped out. When operating in the holy industry, the standard weapon of choice to smear opposition is to pass judgment and brand them as sects, or as in Jensen’s case, new aged spirit stuff.
My hypocrisy meter almost maxed out when I took a reading on Jensen’s 
Easter message. Seemingly totally oblivious to the fact that his own religion was once upon a time considered an occult movement, with a guru gathering followers, which then set forth to convince others of their self-righteous claim to be the new, the one true religion, the Archbishop chooses to debase other people’s believe systems coz they aren’t quite as antique as his own.
It appears the priest’s line of reasoning is straight forward – The older an religion, the more believable and true it is. However, following his logic, we should all be converting to Hinduism, the religion with the oldest recorded roots, predating Sumerian, Egyptian and Babylonian cultures. By world religion standards, Christianity and Islam are new kids on the block, new age spirit stuff so to say.
But the Bishop kept the best part for last, where he reveals who his audience should blame for re-birthing this heretic past time of trying to get in contact with the dead. And the culprits are:
"But there's also been a large migrant intake into this country from people who haven't been impacted by Western cynical secularism, but culturally have a strong belief in the afterlife and in supernatural beings; in ghosts and spirits.
"And a surprising number of people therefore who are now living in
Uhh yeah baby, daft migrants with their unwashed believes engaging in voodoo majic, bringing with them from their homelands all those “occult” 
traditions the Christian missionaries weren’t able to extinct for good. For their good that is, because as most well read people would know, in the Christian life after death model there is nothing to be scared of. Apart from burning eternally in hell.
So, Archbishopman says don’t try to communicate with any souls in the after life, other than Jesus that is - you are allowed to talk to him. Believe in his father and you got nothing to worry about. Remember Adam and Eve, any indiscretion on this part and you won’t make it to heaven, sorry mate, flames on fire for you. Which probably explains why hanging out in your bookstore’s New Age section will lead you to nightmares.
Happy Easter
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