Yet another abomination of a Disney movie, Hexed, is scheduled for release this coming Thanksgiving weekend. The film features magic, spells, witches, occultism, and a mother using New Age-type crystals to protect her daughter.
Nothing anyone should take a young person to see…
In Hexed, Billie, a teenage girl, accidentally unleashes her “supernatural” powers at school and gets expelled. That leads her into a magical realm known as “Hexe”, a land that is populated mostly by witches.
The movie clearly communicates that such “witch power” is inherited… something to be proudly passed down from generation to generation...
Really?
Scripture in no way treats witchcraft as anything to be proud of…
Deuteronomy 18:9-14 makes it clear…
When you enter the land which the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to imitate the detestable things of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, a soothsayer, one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, 11 or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who consults the dead. 12 For whoever does these things is detestable to the Lord; and because of these detestable things the Lord your God is going to drive them out before you. 13 You are to be blameless before the Lord your God. 14 For these nations, which you are going to dispossess, listen to soothsayers and diviners, but as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you to do so.
Disney has created a film that will likely be seen by millions of young, impressionable girls… that it is morally OK to become a witch. It sends a message that it is OK to participate in things that God clearly calls us not to do.
One critic put it this way… “Billie is a character who is calling on calling on spells that actually exist, participating in covens, again, a thing that actually exists, demonstrating occult practices that are real, that are practiced by people today.”
And to those who will surely comment after reading this that, “It’s all just some good fun”, consider Galatians 5:19-21 and read what else Paul lists along with witchcraft…
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envying, murders, drunkenness, reveling, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
And here is the not-so-subtle “con”…
Since Billie has always felt different from other teenagers and struggled to fit in, she will now be able to create a socially attractive identity by embracing witchcraft.
The film promotes witchcraft as the one thing that will make you whole…
Not Christ, but the occult...
This movie is grooming young girls (and boys) into witchcraft, and believing that you don’t need to turn your life over to Christ; you don’t need to repent of your sin; and you don’t need to put your faith in Him… but instead, what you need to do is become a witch so you can get what you want and be popular.
I don’t think so…
Parents, guard your children.