The ‘comic cosmic’ makes the spirit realm appear very “spooky” (the “spooky spiritual”) in appearance. Christianity has been very guilty of emulating the world with cheap substitutes of what the world offers instead of just plain giving the people what they really need, Jesus. Instead of giving people what the really need, we instead turn Christianity into a “catch-phrase Christianity” where doctrine and theology has been summarized into these phrases that rhyme…

f you analyze many of these Christianized catch-phrazes, many of them are based on a conditional response and when one further studies what will happen if one does not conditionally respond to the theology in the “catch-phrazes”, something bad is bound to happen. Therefore, these catch-phrazes appear to be just mere “spiritual supersitions”. Where a regular superstitious person will not “step on a crack, break mother’s back” and “crack a mirror, seven years of bad luck”, the “spiritual superstitious” (usually in Word of Faith circles) is always certain to follow their spiritual superstitions of grossly misinterpreted verses such as “name it and claim it”, “I refuse to receive”, and “I confess, theefore I possess”. Where the physically superstitions would refuse to walk on a crack in the sidewalk thinking that one day, their mother’s back will be broken, the spiritually superstitious will go out in greed to “name it and claim it” in fear of being seen by their fellow faith friends as “lacking faith”, “hidden sin issues”, etc.

The Christianity of the “spiritual superstitious” has been made into a “tribal religion” of where in the pagan tribal religions, improperly doing or failure to properly do certain things causes the lightning to flash from heaven to strike the disobedient. In the ‘tribal religion’ of “spiritual superstition”, failure to perform catch-phraze Christianity will bring down curses, doom, etc that is your fault. To disagree with catch-phrase Christianity and ’spiritual superstition’ causes “victory voodoo” done “in the name of God” to come down as people speak and pray damnation, curses, hellfire, and destruction over the people who disagree claiming God’s punishment for “touching His anointed”.

Many people are getting disturbed by the many “(fill in the blanks) in the Spirit”, the “warfare over some unseen force”, the “always in need of warfare and repentance” that many have “discerned”. In fact, Mario Murillo wrote an entire chapter about this issue in his best seller Fresh Fire entitled “‘Honey, I Shrunk The Devil’, The Fatal Attraction to A Spiritual Warfare Fad” over ten years ago where he warned about the “counterfeit spirit of spiritual warfare” and how if we are not careful, spiritual warfare will turn into a triviatized version of the game Risk. Many are now asking the same questions as they see crime rise in their city after the “spiritual mappers and warriors” were paid big money by churches to “expel the demons” from the city, drive stakes at the borders of the city, one person even went as far as to place “no demons allowed” signs at the entrance of the city limits, etc. Many are asking why the constant 24×7 calls of “if we just repent”, our lives and cities will be better has not materialized. There is a time for repentance but as the spiritual mappers and warriors get further obsessive to find a war to fight by looking for evil, they always find something to “repent” over. Where the educational system had the three foundational “R’s” comsisting of “readin”, “ritin”, and “rithmetic”, the spiritual warfare people who are obsessed with the entire concept have their unwritten laws of the “three R’s”: