Occult Influence in Video Games: How Children Are Spiritually Targeted and What Parents Can Do
The first time I watched a child play Cult of the Lamb, I felt a quiet alarm settle in my chest. The room was warm, the TV glowed, and the game looked almost harmless: bright colors, cute characters, simple controls. But the loop beneath the charm was clear. A tiny lamb kneels before an unseen stranger, receives power, and then spends the rest of the game building a little church of followers. You feed them, you teach them, you punish them, you hold rituals at altars. The whole mechanic is charming on the surface and unsettling the moment you call it by its true name: it is worship practiced as play. The player does not simply watch devotion—he performs it. The controller becomes a liturgy, and the liturgy trains the heart. That single image explains why so many parents and pastors ask the same hard question: are our children. under attack? The honest answer is layered. No single game is a secret curse. But video games are one of the most powerful habit-making tools in our culture...