Jason Whitlock: Tyler Perry’s ‘Straw’ is ‘demonic’



The number-one film currently streaming on Netflix is Tyler Perry’s latest movie, called "Straw," which follows a single mother who faces “a series of painful events.”

BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock and BlazeTV contributor Shemeka Michelle didn’t love the film, but they do think it revealed something about Perry’s audience.

“Initially, I was very upset with Tyler Perry, simply because I thought, you know, his greatest fan base, which he himself has admitted is black women, I thought it would go completely over their heads,” Michelle tells Whitlock.

“Spoiler alert, for those who haven’t seen it,” she continues, “he waited until the very last minute of the movie to really show that this woman was suffering from psychosis, which is a mental disorder based on being completely detached from reality, which is what she was.”


“I got even angrier when I got online and it was proven that it completely went over women’s heads, and I kept seeing them say, ‘Oh, I am Janiah,’ who is the main character of the movie. ‘I stand with Janiah,’ you know, ‘Janiah is me, this is what single women go through every single day,’” she continues.

However, not all black single women are walking around suffering from psychosis.

“This is not what single women or single mothers go through every day,” Michelle says. “And then I had to say it’s not Tyler Perry’s fault that his main group of supporters are intellectual midgets.”

“I’m just trying to figure out where to stand with Tyler, because I thought he just could have done a better job, but I think it exposes the psychosis in black women, the detachment from reality, the hallucinations, the bad behavior, because so many of them were just applauding this,” she adds.

After watching the film, Whitlock had a similar realization.

“Corporate media, the movies, Netflix: They’re all just dumping poison. You’re a victim no matter what you do, no matter how crazy you are, no matter how violent you are, you’re only doing it because this system is racist and because you’ve been mistreated,” Whitlock says.

“And this is where you and I disagree,” he tells Michelle. “Tyler Perry is the source of a lot of the delusion that black women have. His movies are there to create delusion among black women, to create a false reality.”

“His movies are demonic, and his movies are there to make black women think they can do no wrong, they’re a victim of everything, the world is against them,” he adds.

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Demons in the dark: The terrifying experience that permanently ended a radio show’s horror series



Ghost stories are all fun and games until they’re not.

Years ago, when Calvin “Speedy” Wilburn, Rick Burgess’ longtime co-host and producer, traveled around the country visiting haunted sites for a popular October series on the now-retired “Rick and Bubba Show,” he had no idea he’d encounter actual demons.

Dubbed “13 Days of Horror,” the well-intentioned Halloween series was supposed to be a lighthearted way to enjoy October festivities. Rick describes it as a “Scooby-Doo ... Ghostbusters kind of thing.”

But it wasn’t long before the crew discovered that there’s no such thing as lighthearted horror.

On this episode of “Strange Encounters,” Speedy shares the harrowing story of a demonic encounter that shook him so deeply, the team shut down the series forever.

“13 Days of Horror” focused primarily on visiting purportedly haunted historical landmarks. Speedy and the camera crew often teamed up with paranormal groups armed with infrared cameras and EMF meters to venture into the country’s dark corners.

However, one “very cold Alabama night,” the team broke with tradition when, instead of visiting another landmark, they met up with a lady and her young daughter at their house, which they claimed was haunted.

The crew immediately knew they were dealing with something different when the child showed them bloody scratches on her body where a demon had allegedly attacked her in her sleep. The mother told bone-chilling stories of her daughter waking up with braids in her hair that weren’t there before she went to sleep and candles being blown out en masse around the house.

Speedy recounts how upon entering the home, he could feel that “the vibe was different.” There was a “heaviness” and a “darkness” that “weighted on [his] shoulders.”

The paranormal hunters they were with then began “asking questions for the spirit to appear.” They even had the young girl, who was “horrified,” ask her spiritual tormentor questions about why it was attacking her.

That’s when Speedy and the team shut it down and left the house, knowing that what they were involved with was no laughing matter.

On the car ride back, one of the staff members who had been taking pictures in the home pulled out his camera to look over the images.

The photos he had taken were completely black except for numerous “orbs” hovering everywhere.

That’s when the crew knew for certain that what they had experienced was “not a spooky, funny, let's go have a good time, Mystery Machine, Scooby-Doo, bring back a funny bit for the show” situation.

“This was a demonic heaviness, a serious situation we were in, and looking back on it and knowing what we were doing and what we were asking, you just feel so foolish,” Speedy tells Rick.

While that experience shut down the series permanently, there had already been other experiences that had made the crew wary about their “13 Days of Horror” segment. There was another time when the crew was left quaking in their boots after visiting the children’s wing of an abandoned mental institution.

Speedy also shares wild stories from his dad’s days of going door-to-door sharing the gospel that will make your blood run cold. From a woman who “roared like a lion” at the sound of Jesus’ name to a sick patient who spoke in a voice that was not her own, these moments confronted Speedy with a spiritual reality far beyond the playful scares the crew had set out to chase.

To hear the details of each harrowing demonic encounter and Rick’s biblical response, watch the episode above.

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Meet the man building the Christian answer to Fortnite



The word “programming” gets tossed around often when talking about TV — and it carries two meanings. One is obvious. The other is more insidious.

What you and your kids watch is programming. Not just what’s on the screen, but what’s being impressed upon them.

To some people, especially tech giants like Google, the message of the Bible runs counter to much of what they are pushing onto kids today.

The same can be said about the video games children play. And in many cases, it’s worse. Far too many video games marketed to children numb them to violence or undermine traditional values. This isn't just a game. Kids inured to violence grow into adults inured to violence. Children taught to regard other people as objects — whether as targets in a first-person shooter game or as targets of lascivious attention — tend to grow into morally calloused adults.

These kinds of games, like the smartphones and tablets they’re played on, are everywhere. It seems every kid has either one or both devices, making it difficult for parents to protect them or prevent access to violent, unwholesome material, including interactive online games.

Some of these platforms offer more than just harmful ideas. Predators have been known to use online games to reach unsuspecting children by disguising themselves as other players.

A new solution

But what can parents do?

Parental controls only go so far, and today’s tech-savvy kids often know more about computers and the internet by the time they’re 13 than their parents ever will. Taking away devices is a clumsy — and worse, ineffective — tool. Your kids’ friends almost certainly have devices, and access to them can circumvent any boundaries you try to set at home.

One thing parents can do is provide their kids with an alternative.

Enter TruPlay, a new gaming platform created by Brent Dusing to bring “high-quality, fun, and biblically sound” entertainment to kids.

Dusing, a Harvard graduate and pioneer in Christian gaming through his previous venture, Lightside Games (which reached over 7 million players worldwide), also serves on the board of Promise Keepers — the organization dedicated to “Making Dads Great Again.”

The TruPlay suite of apps includes Bible-based games, such as “King David’s Battles,” which allows kids to role-play biblical characters. The Comics and Videos app illustrates scriptural themes in a graphic novel, similar in theme to “The Dark Knight Rises” but without the darkness. Other games resemble classic hits like the iconic block-building game Tetris — but using stained glass pieces instead.

Counterprogramming vs. censorship

This, too, isn't a game. It's counterprogramming.

Dusing says "there’s a lot of awful content" out there and “almost nothing … delivers God’s truth or hope or joy or Jesus Christ to children at all in the gaming space.” In fact, anything that dares to mention Jesus or the Bible, whether in gaming or any other space, without mocking it, is itself mocked. Compare that to the media frenzy around the release of a new first-person shooter. Coverage is wall-to-wall, as if it were the second coming.

But wholesome, family-friendly platforms like TruPlay get crickets — and sometimes worse than crickets.

According to Dusing, Big Tech platforms like Google have blocked or limited the visibility of TruPlay ads, claiming "sensitive interest" as the justification — as if promoting Jesus and biblical values were somehow dangerous.

To some, it is.

To some people, especially tech giants like Google, the message of the Bible runs counter to much of what they are pushing onto kids today — including, in some cases, the explicitly demonic, as opposed to an action game about King David or an adventure game about a little girl who believes in Jesus.

Dusing says TruPlay is being suppressed by Google because "the algorithms themselves view the content we make, encouraging biblically inspired games for children, as a threat."

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Of course it is — and that's precisely the point.

"There has been this sea change generationally in America — and really throughout the world — of people playing games as a common part of entertainment and cultural understanding,” Dusing says.

Indeed.

We went from innocent, fun games like “Space Invaders” and “Pac-Man” to hyper-realistic first-person shooter games like “Call of Duty,”designed to realistically convey what it's like to shoot another human being. Games like “Grand Theft Auto” make sport out of stealing, and games like “Doom” and “Quake” present satanic material as “fun.”

It’s a cultural rip current — pulling kids along while they don't even realize they’re in the water. And here we are.

“What world do we live in where fun, inspirational games with Christian principles are offensive but sexual content for small children, including sex trafficking, is permitted with no problems on Google?” Dusing asks.

It's a question that demands answers.

TruPlay’s response is "to transform generations of children in such a profound way that it will shape culture” in a different direction.

Basement demons, severed goat heads & child assassination plots: Former FBI agent shares blood-chilling stories from days undercover



Retired undercover FBI agent Scott Payne spent much of his career infiltrating motorcycle gangs and white supremacist groups, including the Klan. There are no words to describe some of the horrors he’s witnessed over the years.

“I'm sitting across the table from a pedophile who's hiring me to kill the kid that he molested,” he recalls from his undercover days. “There's a lot of people out there that just don't know how evil the world can be.”

A rock solid faith in God, he tells Glenn Beck, is what got him through then and what helps him fight the ghosts of the past now.

But he didn’t always have a relationship with God to strengthen him. In fact, there was a time in high school when dabbling in witchcraft led to a terrifying face-to-face encounter with a demon in his friend’s basement that scared him so deeply, he ran to Jesus and never looked back.

But that wasn’t his last encounter with the demonic. From children pledging to shoot their own fathers and pagan rituals, Payne has seen things most of us couldn’t fathom.

On this episode of “The Glenn Beck Podcast,” he shares some of his wildest stories.

In 2019, Payne infiltrated “the Base” — a neo-Nazi, white supremacist group founded in 2018 that promotes accelerationist ideology, which aims to collapse society through violence and terrorism to create a white ethnostate.

One event he attended, which he calls “Halloween hate camp,” involved “hand-to-hand combat training,” “firearms training,” “burning Bibles, burning American flags,” and a “ceremony of paganism” that included animal sacrifice.

Some members of the group stole a goat from a nearby farm, planning to sacrifice it to Odin – the central figure in Norse mythology who is the god of both war and death. The sacrifice was meant to symbolize the kicking off of the “Wild Hunt” — a midwinter ghostly procession of spirits and supernatural beings led by Odin to destroy enemies and send mortals to the underworld.

The Wild Hunt was seen as symbolic of the Base’s desire to “cleanse the world of anti-fascist non-whites.”

“We're all in a circle on our knees around the goat,” says Payne. “He comes down full-fledged with the blade.”

However, the blade was dull and failed to pierce the animal’s skin, so the executioner used a gun to finish the job.

“You think you're done, and you're not. They go and slice the throat of the goat, fill up a big cup with its blood,” says Payne, who went by the moniker Pale Horse.

The executioner then passed out acid to the group.

“They chase it with the blood as part of the sacrifice,” Payne tells Glenn, noting that he was able to avoid the acid but still had to “[dip his] whole finger” in the cup and “[suck] all the blood off.”

“Then, they cut the head of it off, threw its innards in the creek. Some members tried to cook it ... and then we carried the head around for, like, three more days,” he recalls.

Glenn then asks the question we’re all thinking: How did you reconcile such a job given your faith?

“I’m in work mode, and I know that somebody had to kick Satan out of heaven,” he says.

To hear more of Payne’s wild stories, including Bibles that wouldn’t burn and the time he nearly was found out, watch the episode above.

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Chicago Public Schools Pays $2.6M For Allegedly Forcing Students To Participate In Hindu Ritual

Kaya Hudgins, now 22, testified in a deposition that she was told participation in a 'Quiet Time' of Transcendental Meditation was mandatory.

‘Feels like a demonic ritual’ — KFC’s latest commercial will SHOCK you



In 1930, a man named Harland Sanders began selling fried chicken from a roadside restaurant in Corbin, Kentucky. That restaurant eventually became the global franchise Kentucky Fried Chicken, more commonly known as KFC. It’s been adored for generations.

However, now droves of people are swearing off the restaurant for life — and not because of the MAHA movement.

The latest KFC commercial — a blend of creepy cultish behavior and a not-so-subtle insinuation of cannibalism — likely has Sanders rolling over in his grave.

Pat Gray of “Pat Gray Unleashed” plays the full commercial.

Here’s a brief summary of what transpires in the two-minute ad: A young man walks alone in a misty forest. He suddenly encounters a chicken staring at him from behind a tree. Then, out of the blue, a puffy vest descends from the sky onto a woman. Then, a bunch of people all wearing similar clothing come out of hiding and surround the man and woman, who then levitate to face one another. The man’s clothes are suddenly replaced so that he matches the group.

Then, a giant golden egg appears and the cult-like group starts carrying it somewhere, while doing these strange, gyrating movements. The group arrives with the egg at a giant lake of gravy. The woman then carries the man into the lake of gravy and submerges him. When she pulls him back up, he’s a giant chicken tender. She holds him above her head, and the group stomps and cheers in preparation for their next meal.

Co-host Keith Malinak says it “feels like a demonic ritual.”

On top of that, there seems to be an insinuation that the meat the restaurant uses “is human.”

“You dipped a human being in gravy, and he became a piece of fried chicken. ... Wow is that weird,” says Pat in complete disbelief. “That was maybe the king of weird.”

“That was insane; that was evil; that was demonic,” says Keith. “They’re not even hiding anymore.”

To see the commercial, watch the clip above.

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Most Kansas lawmakers side against the devil, pass resolution denouncing satanists' 'Black Mass'



The Kansas state House voted 101-15 on Thursday in support of a resolution denouncing the satanic worship ritual scheduled to take place outside the state Capitol on March 28.

This denunciation, although an important signal to Kansans and the nation, is not law and does not amount to a cancellation of the event. In fact, the satanists still intend to flock to the state grounds and to flout Democrat Gov. Laura Kelly's directive to remain outside the Capitol building.

However, the Satanic Grotto's planned desecration of the Eucharist is now in doubt, given recent indications that the satanists may not actually be in possession of a consecrated host as well as new guidelines adopted for use of the Capitol grounds by the Kansas Legislative Coordinating Council, which would make the unlawful possession of a consecrated host grounds for removal.

It appears, therefore, that the satanists' planned "Black Mass" might end up being nothing more than insubstantial anti-Catholic theater exemplifying their bigotry and uniting lawmakers from both parties, Christians from various denominations, and even some nonbelievers in affirming the state's "identity as one nation under God."

Former Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.), who has been involved in the efforts to prevent a real Black Mass from taking place at the state Capitol, told Blaze News that the satanists' efforts to provoke Catholics and draw attention to themselves may serve as "spiritual kick in the pants to Christians across Kansas," prompting them to "say, 'Hey, wait a minute — this our state too.'"

Lawsuit

The Satanic Grotto, a leftist anti-Christian hate group that appears to be little more than an unpolished knockoff of the Massachusetts-based Satanic Temple, received a permit to hold a "Black Mass" at the Kansas Capitol building in Topeka on March 28.

The group's event listing states that the group will "dedicate the grounds and our legislature to the glory of Satan" and notes further that members "will be performing rites to the black mass and indulging in sacrilegious blaspheme [sic]."

Michael Stewart, the leader of the anti-Christian hate group, told KSNT-TV that he would lead the "Black Mass," noting that he would "heavily lean into the four blasphemies, kind of representing an alternate to the stations of the cross."

The satanists are expected to break crucifixes, tear up at least one Bible, and mock Catholics' central sacrament — intended actions Stewart confirmed in a Wednesday op-ed. A flyer for the event further indicates that as part of their "theuraputic [sic] blesphemy [sic]," the satanists will denounce Christ, desecrate the Eucharist, and corrupt "the Blood."

'God takes Satan to court. Satan wins.'

There has been intense backlash, particularly from Catholic groups in the state who were led to believe by self-identified members of the Grotto that the group had stolen a consecrated host and sought to "use its desecration to manifest the link between Satan and the capital [sic] building."

In addition to social media posts, Chuck Weber, the executive director of the Kansas Catholic Conference — a group that leads public policy advocacy efforts on behalf of the Catholic Bishops of Kansas — stated in a sworn statement that Stewart told him in a March 8 phone call that he was in possession of one or more consecrated hosts.

In addition to encouraging prayer, inviting the faithful to attended a Eucharistic Holy Hour at a church near the statehouse on March 28, and calling for state officials to cancel the event, the Catholic Archdiocese of Kansas City  filed a lawsuit demanding the return of consecrated hosts the satanists suggested they had stolen.

It is the conviction of the Catholic Church that "at the heart of the Eucharistic celebration are the bread and wine that, by the words of Christ and the invocation of the Holy Spirit, become Christ's Body and Blood." The archdiocese noted that given the highest importance of the consecrated host and wine to Catholics, any attempt to "desecrate or attempt to destroy or otherwise harm these items is a grave concern to Archbishop [Joseph] Naumann, the Catholic Church, and countless of the Catholic faithful."

Archbishop Naumann demanded resolution through a civil jury trial.

The Leavenworth County District Court dismissed the lawsuit Thursday, prompting the Grotto to state on Facebook, "God takes Satan to court. Satan wins."

Stewart told WIBW-TV that the supposed hosts he has in his possession were not obtained by criminal means.

"We didn't do it," Stewart said, referring to the allegation that he or his compatriots stole consecrated hosts.

Stewart suggested to the Oklahoma Voice that his anti-Christian hate group has its own consecration rituals and will mockingly "consecrate" some unleavened wafers purchased online.

"I find it very entertaining that [Archbishop Naumann] is convinced that I have Jesus trapped in a cracker and he would take it to court," said Stewart.

The Satanic Grotto similarly did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News. The anti-Christian hate group did, however previously provide this response: "The Satanic Grotto says get f**ked blaze news."

Voting against the devil

Gov. Kelly appeared reluctant early on to condemn the planned event or acknowledge the Grotto as bigots; however, she indicated on March 12 that in order to "keep the statehouse open and accessible to the public while ensuring all necessary health and safety regulations are enforced," the group's anti-Christian demonstration would have to take place outside.

The satanists maintain that they will enter the state Capitol building to perform their dark ritual, even if that means they'll end up in handcuffs.

The governor's office did not respond to a request for comment.

Huelskamp told Blaze News that like Gov. Kelly's "really weak" response to the "Black Mass," the response from the Kansas legislature was also "pretty timid."

"The general philosophy was, 'Well, if we ignore evil, it will go away,'" said Huelskamp. "But what I've seen in the last couple days — I've been in touch with a lot of legislators who are really stepping up, saying, 'You know what? We need to take a stand on this.' And they have."

Kansas House Resolution 6016 states that the "planned satanic worship ritual is an explicit act of anti-Catholic bigotry and an affront to all Christians. It blasphemes our shared values of faith, decency, and respect that strengthen our communities."

Those who voted for the resolution affirmed that they denounced "the planned satanic worship ritual scheduled to take place on the grounds of the people's house, the Kansas state Capitol grounds, on March 28, 2025, as a despicable, blasphemous, and offensive sacrilege to not only Catholics but all people of goodwill, and it runs contrary to the spiritual heritage of this state and nation."

"We call upon all Kansans to promote unity, mutual respect, and the values that uphold our identity as one nation under God," added the resolution.

The resolution passed in a bipartisan 101-15 vote.

While some Democrats voted for the resolution, all 15 state legislators who voted against denouncing the satanic ritual were Democrats, namely Reps. Wanda Paige, John Carmichael, Ford Carr, Jo Ella Hoye, Heather Meyer, Silas Miller, Brooklynne Mosley, Melissa Oropeza, Dan Osman, Jarrod Ousley, Susan Ruiz, Alexis Simmons, Lindsay Vaughn, Valdenia Winn, and Rui Xu.

The Kansas Catholic Conference stated, "We are shocked and appalled that 15 Democrats voted NO," adding, "Anti-Catholic bigotry is alive and well in Kansas."

'It's the same arguments that the pro-KKK people had in the 1920s.'

Kansas state Rep. Sean Tarwater, a practicing Catholic, said, "What eats at me the most is that I fear for the souls of those that are going to be involved with this Black Mass, and especially for those that are supporting the Black Mass in this room and on that committee," reported the Kansas Reflector.

Huelskamp told Blaze News that "we're still looking for a little more from the legislature," underscoring that the matter at hand is plainly a battle between good and evil.

Huelskamp, a Catholic with four adopted black children, noted that Kansas has a really proud history of repelling bigots, highlighting the battle that made it the first state in the union to ban the Ku Klux Klan.

"In the 1920s — 100 years ago — the KKK tried to make a big entrance into Kansas. There was a significant political battle," said the former congressman. "They refused to recognize the KKK and they kicked them out of the state."

"All of the arguments of the left on this, on the satanists, it's the same arguments that the pro-KKK people had in the 1920s. 'Hey, it's free speech.' 'Let them come in, free to organize.' Eventually, the State of Kansas — I think the '24 election — said, 'No. We will not let the KKK in the state,'" continued Huelskamp. "I mean, at that time, there were rallies of 50,000 Kansans that were KKK supporters demanding recognition by the state."

"I'm still upset the [Kansas] secretary of state, Scott Schwab, recognized the satanists when he gave them nonprofit status," said Huelskamp. "We might like to go back and re-examine whether any group, you know, any hate group just receives automatic recognition by the State of Kansas. So 100 years ago, we said the KKK didn't qualify. So how did the satanists qualify? It's obviously a hate group in my books."

Catholics and Christians from other denominations plan to protest the "Black Mass."

TFP Student Action has, for instance, invited counterprotesters to attend a rosary rally of reparation at the south side of the Kansas state Capitol building at 10:15 a.m. on March 28.

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'May or may not be possessed': Inside the thriving online market for 'haunted' dolls



Dolls are like clowns — they can go from cute to creepy real quick. And for the creepiest of them all, fame and fortune could await.

For every Annabelle or Chucky, however, there are thousands of dolls still languishing in obscurity.

'I'm not responsible for any hospital visits, death, or nightmares, or any other unfortunate things that may occur,' the seller warns.

They may not have the brand recognition, but when it comes to the spirit realm, they're the real deal. At least, that's what the people selling them say.

Real haunted doll active!

"REAL HAUNTED DOLL ACTIVE! Possessed Malevolent Evil Demonic Spirit Of A Demon," is how eBay seller hauntedvoodoogirl describes a baby doll she's selling. With its clean pink dress and bright blue eyes, the doll doesn't exactly look evil — although the Ouija board behind her does add a hint of spookiness.

A word of caution follows: “Please note, by buying this doll, you are inviting a spirit to come into your home.”

Welcome to the seldom-traveled market of haunted dolls, dummies, and figurines, selling for anywhere from hundreds to thousands of dollars on auction websites.

Whether you believe in the supernatural or not, it's clear these dolls have become a lucrative storytelling opportunity for some budding entrepreneurs.

On eBay, there is a plethora of would-be haunted items selling for between $400 and $8,000, with plenty of buyers vying to take them home.

Hauntedvoodoogirl has 202 reviews, with a 100% positive review rating and over 650 sales. Many of these are sales of “haunted” dolls from $100 to $450 — just like the "possessed malevolent evil" baby doll she's currently trying to move.

Of course, these listings often come with a disclaimer: “It may take months with you to see any activity with a doll when it moves from one location to another, please give it time, very rarely will you see activity immediately, allow the doll time to feel comfortable in your home.”

Serious stories for serious money

As you move into the higher end of the possessed doll market, the backstories get more complex — yes, the backstories.

An allegedly possessed mannequin selling for $400 comes from a “well-known psychic medium” who claims to have been “practicing Wicca for 55 years.”

Skeptical? Does finding out that she moved next to a cemetery and purchased a hearse to feel closer to the “spirits" change your mind? What about the guarantee that every doll receives a midnight session that involves communication through meditation, an Ouija board, and even a pendulum, for some reason?

Just know that the principle of "buyer beware" applies: “I'm not responsible for any hospital visits, death, or nightmares, or any other unfortunate things that may occur,” the seller warns.

Got $450 to spend? Perhaps you'd like a life-sized “poltergeist”-haunted vessel. Once you hit this price point, salesmanship goes from jumbled descriptions to full-fledged fan fiction.

“Lillian was only 5 years old when her life was cruelly stolen. ... Her parents were physically abusive. ... Her mother forced her to light cigarettes on the hot stove, often causing painful burns on her small hands.”

Spooky self-help

Not all dolls have such grim backgrounds. Emma, for example, houses the spirit of a girl born in Michigan (just like the seller!). Emma stumbled upon a book about witchcraft in the library as a young girl, and her learning helped her find self-confidence and respect.

And now she's ready to pass these on to you. “Emma is going to help you find your strength, stick up for yourself, and to never tolerate disrespect,” the listing promises — all for a small fee of $600.

It's in the four-figure range that the sales pitches become truly baroque.

Whether it is a $3,000 “authentic demonic doll” or a $5,000 “paranormal” doll encased in a lantern, there’s no shortage of tales to spin.

That “cursed vessel” not only caused alleged financial ruin but car accidents and even six apartment floods. The incidents caused the owner to put the doll in a cage and perform a “protection spell.”

Now, the seller just wants to recoup some money from a generous buyer and allegedly get his or her life back together.

“If you’re crazy enough to pay what I am asking for this doll, then maybe you’ll be able to handle what it brings and the financial ruin it will bring you,” the seller writes.

For experienced owners only

A pair of classic possessed ventriloquist dolls can be yours for just $8,000. Then again, if you're forking over that much, maybe you'd prefer the reliability of an “active” porcelain doll.

For “experienced” owners of paranormal items only, this doll comes complete with audible footsteps and electromagnetic frequencies.

Here, as in all of these listings, there are no guarantees: Paranormal events could take weeks or even months to happen or may never happen at all. Some listings insist on no refunds, while others end their novellas more honestly, noting that the dolls are for entertainment purposes only.

You know, like blowing all your money in Vegas.

Upselling exorcism

The paranormal doll experience stretches beyond eBay, but the long-standing website is indeed where it has its strongest base. Thousand-word explainers dominate the market there and back up the experience with expensive product.

On other sites, like Facebook Marketplace, the tone is a little less serious. Yes, buyers will still find the “creepy old lady doll” they are looking for, but descriptions tend not to mince words.

“May or may not be possessed. There is no documented evidence of demonic activity, but the dog won't go in the same room with her."

And she can be yours for $45.

A pair of dolls that likely would be described on eBay as paranormal fixtures of a forgotten time merit nothing more than a laconic upsell on Facebook: “An exorcism can be performed for $50."

Still, even with a possessed doll that features its own custom “ghost bike,” Facebook consumers are hard-pressed to find anything that will break the bank.

Which raises the question: Just who's buying all these expensive eBay dolls — and why?

Shady business?

“I don't know what to say, to be honest,” collector Efron Monsanto told Align. “As a collector, I find the idea odd, but most items in the space for our type of hobbies are.”

Monsanto routinely goes far and wide seeking out rare and vintage oddities, but even he found the high prices for the dolls baffling.

“For sellers trying to profit off these dolls, I believe they could be taking advantage of the mentally ill and their allies.”

Few of these sellers seem to specialize in the haunted doll trade. Many of the dolls for sale appear to be one-off cash-grabs, sold alongside a catalogue of Pokemon cards, toys, or stuffed animals.

Still, some sellers do focus on a quality product, as evidenced by rave customer reviews.

“I keep coming back to the Seller! Time and time again!” said a buyer of yet another allegedly possessed doll.

Another buyer said her haunted clown has been “very active with me responding when I ask her to light up the catball and poltergeist activity!”

A different customer, who paid $100 for a haunted jewelry box, admitted experiencing no paranormal activity but was still pleased with the purchase.

“I Haven't Experienced ANYTHING Yet! But, I WILL Say This Box IS LOVELY!!!” the customer wrote.

Even as the prices go up, customers are still happy with their lack of activity, displaying a genuine interest in the authenticity of their purchase, with little expectations.

Harmless fun?

Chrissy Clark, a journalist who specializes in underreported stories, isn't so sure.

“Who is buying demonic dolls that someone is trying to off-load?" she asked.

“If these dolls are authentic, then there is an obvious spirit of greed that leads people to sell the items instead of destroy them.”

‘Evil, demonic behavior’: Drag queen and trans worship at the Cathedral of Hope church



The Cathedral of Hope church in Dallas celebrated the "Art of Drag" during a service followed by a drag brunch — and in a show of bravery, BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales sacrificed her own sanity to attend and report on the event.

The celebration was supposed to be an “act of defiance and in response to the numerous bills introduced in the Texas legislature attacking drag performers and transgender people.”

“During the services, we will take a few moments to bless and affirm those who use drag as an art form and affirm our transgender siblings made in the image of God,” read a promotional message on the Cathedral of Hope’s website.

“I did go, and I wish that I hadn’t,” Gonzales tells BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere on “Stu Does America,” before showing him the footage she captured during the event.


In one scene, drag performers — and an adult on his hands and knees in a furry costume — lined up at the front of the church to applause from those in the pews.

“That’s not an actual dog,” Stu says, but “a human being who’s crawling on all fours in front of a church. This is really what’s happening.”

“That actually happened at a church this weekend. Again, it was all drag performers. People dressed as women that were men, I guess vice versa as well, and at least one person who is being led on a leash,” he continues.

“I laugh so I don’t cry,” Gonzales chimes in. “I’m the one who has to go document these events. It really is startling to be there in what they call a house of God.”

“They’ve got all these big, beautiful crosses everywhere, and to watch this evil, demonic behavior taking place with crosses all around, symbols of God all around, is the most unsettling thing,” she continues. “I mean, it’s bad when it's with kids, right? But this one being in a house of God, they say, you just feel it in your gut.”

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Rebuking the demonic demands that we reject leftist lies



A few years ago, I started attending counseling sessions with a Christian therapist because I was wrestling with what the broader field of psychology calls an “inner critic.” It’s that nasty voice that whispers you’re not good enough, you’re a failure, you’re unlovable.

Being a reader and a researcher, I went into my initial session already knowing that our inner critic originates primarily from two places: Either it's born of society’s unrealistic expectations, or it comes from internalizing criticism from others, usually during childhood.

I guess I didn’t account for the fact that I was seeing a Christian therapist — someone who does not exclusively operate in the bounds of mainstream psychology — because before I could finish telling her what I thought were the origins of my inner critic, she cut me off.

Actually, I think what you’re dealing with is demonic lies.

Pardon?

Yeah, I think those terrible things you think about yourself aren’t necessarily your thoughts. They’re lies being whispered to you by the enemy. You need to rebuke them.

At the time, the idea was outlandish to me. I believed in the demonic — believed that demons could and often did torment people. But this wasn’t that, surely. This was me mentally flogging myself for failing to meet expectations that I subconsciously agreed to.

The left has been captured by demonic ideology.

I won’t bore you with the details of the long and somewhat strange journey it took for me to realize that my counselor was right. Suffice it to say that I learned to distinguish between the voice that gently convicts and spurs us toward repentance when we have erred, our God-given conscience that guides us in general ethics and morality, and the hateful, lying voice of the enemy that seeks to incapacitate us with fear and shame — often using our past traumas and modernity’s lofty standards to do it — and to create division between us and God.

When that hateful voice of the enemy rears its head, hurling accusations, insults, and lies, I have learned that the only way to silence it is indeed to rebuke it as slander from the demonic that follows in the stead of Satan, whom the Bible calls “the accuser of our brethren” (Revelation 12:10). Lying is "his native language,” it says in John 8:44.

Perhaps it’s this practiced discernment that allows me to recognize demonic lies in other playing fields.

By now Christians — not those in name only, but the saints who regard the Bible as both truth and authority — understand that the left has been captured by demonic ideology.

Since the dawn of this new progressive Democratic Party, believers have been calling out the big three — the sexualization of children, abortion, and gender theory — as those are the issues that are most diametrically opposed to biblical doctrine and therefore can easily be identified as demonic.

But there’s another way Satan has influenced the Democratic Party and its voter base to do his bidding, and it’s not one that gets adequate attention. On top of convincing liberals that progressivism, which inverts biblical truth, is the way forward, he’s also convinced them that the response to opposition is to spit venomous, defamatory accusations, the vast majority of which are egregious lies.

Let’s look at some common indictments that come from the radical left.

  • If you think marriage is something that occurs between a man and a woman, you’re a homophobe.
  • If you’re not pro-censorship, you endorse hate speech.
  • If you think it’s impossible to be born in the wrong body, you’re a transphobe.
  • If you don’t want your child exposed to gender theory in school, you’re a bigot.
  • If you don’t get on board with the idea of black reparations, you’re a racist.
  • If you don’t support abortion, you want to deny women lifesaving health care.
  • If you don’t shriek in horror at Trump’s mass deportation plans, you’re a xenophobe.
  • If you don’t besmirch the founding of our country, you’re a white supremacist.

The list is endless.

It boils down to this: If you don’t agree with X leftist idea, then you’re a vile person deserving of condemnation, ostracization, and shame. Your head is immediately placed on the guillotine of cancel culture.

These kinds of accusations fit the description of the voice of evil I described above. They are accusatory, hateful, and aimed at silencing people using shame and fear; they create division; and most of the time, they’re lies.

Unless, of course, someone is a legitimate racist, misogynist, or whatever it might be. When it comes to these people (and they do exist; I know some of them), certain accusations are true and deserved. To hate people for their race, gender, or other immutable trait is also demonic and should be called out as such.

When something falsely accuses, breeds fear, shame, and division, spreads lies, and incites persecution, you can be sure it's demonic in origin.

But if you look at the entire landscape of our country, the truth is that these people are rare and getting rarer — and of the ones who do exist, many of them are actually on the left. They’re the ones fighting fabricated racism with real racism, perceived misogyny with genuine misandry, pretend homophobia with slights against the nuclear family.

But radical leftists either can’t see this or they simply don’t care because their agenda is pre-eminent.

Either way, they spit these accusations with the intention of silencing dissent. In doing so, they crush their adversaries and instill fear in the bystanders who watch wide-eyed as the heads of bold naysayers roll. Fear waxes, brave opponents wane, and a destructive lie — whatever it may be — crystallizes: Pro-lifers don’t want women to get lifesaving care, DEI opposers want black people to fail, and those who didn’t get the COVID vaccine are granny-killers. Society at large then accepts these lies as truth. Those who don’t bend the knee are then persecuted.

When something falsely accuses, breeds fear, shame, and division, spreads lies, and incites persecution, you can be sure it's demonic in origin. And when something is demonic in origin, you rebuke it.

But what does this look like? After all, when it comes to these kinds of accusations, we’re dealing not with actual demons but with human beings who have probably unknowingly adopted a demonic creed. Rebuking isn’t going to look the same.

And maybe "rebuke" isn’t even the right word. Perhaps "reject" is a better fit for this scenario.

I like what Megyn Kelly said recently when she was covering the acquittal of Daniel Penny. To the BLM radicalists who were spewing the lie that Penny acted out of racism, Kelly said, “That's not working any more. You're going to have to find a new line. I don't know what it's going to be, but the BLM era is officially over.”

I think her words are a good template: No, that’s not true. Now move along with your lies. They have no impact here.

Imagine how public discourse would shift if we all had this response when another false accusation was thrown at us. The power would be sucked from that lie, and we could simply move on.

Under the Biden regime, with its chain links to the legacy media, big tech, and every other big _____ out there, perhaps this simple notion wouldn’t have worked. The narrative was set in stone. But it’s dawn in America, and the stone is crumbling. With the inauguration of Donald Trump just days away, change is here, with more of it on the horizon. The mouths of lions are already being shut. The heads of giants are already rolling.

I say this not to equate Trump, however powerful and mighty he might be, with God but rather to say that God saved this man because of the role he will play in the revival of America — a revival that is already unfolding before our eyes.

Trump has his part to play in the rebuilding of this great nation — securing our borders, re-establishing order in our streets, weeding out anti-Americanism, dismantling the Deep State, and restoring economic prosperity, among others.

But we also have a critical role to play. I feel strongly that part of that role is, one, to recognize that the accusations and name-calling of the left are a demonic plot, and, two, to reject them and speak the truth.

We must boldly declare that men are men and women are women; that babies, regardless of their age and circumstances surrounding their conception, deserve life; that all people, as image-bearers of God, are equally deserving of dignity; and, perhaps most importantly, that these statements do not make us homophobes, racists, white supremacists, Christian nationalists, or even far-right radicals. They make us truth-tellers.