Yes and no. Only the higher ups in the religious hierarchy know and understand the occult and are considerate to be dark occultist who work against humanity to keep it enslaved and ignorant of the occult and about their real divine nature. The smaller priests and brainwashed believers and followers think that the occult comes from the Devil and is to be avoided. Which is a big deception cause the one thing they avoid prevents them from reaching and achieving the one thing they desire the most. Which is a Union with the Divine.
No, religious people follow God's commands regarding rejecting the Occult because it always results sooner or later in coming under the influence of demonic forces contrary to God.
Not all do, you can get it out of your system and hopefully you will eventually find the right path
No, freemasons are religious
No
Definitely occult. Many people who do it consider it a religious experience, but it is not Christian. Concerning the experience itself, I believe it is no more of a religious or an occult occurrence than walking down the street physically. It is neither.
Whether a person, religious or not, is against following the paranormal depends on their individual beliefs.
Whether a person, religious or not, is against New Age ideas depends on their individual beliefs.
The people in the back of the room talking were very secretive. The people in the back of the room talking were very secretive.
The reason that so many religions band the occult stems from the truth behind religion. The oldest religion is what is now known as the occult. It began with prehistoric man worshiping God through nature. They believed that there was a God who provided animals to hunt. They believed that there was a God who gave them the Sun. There was a god that gave them plants, and so on. Eventually organized religions came along and they combined all these Gods into a singular spiritual being.However people clung to the old traditions and eventually to bring more people into the modern religions they began teaching that the old Gods were evil. The biggest example would be the devil. He is a cloven hooved, horned, animalistic deity. He is a carbon copy in appearance to the old god of the hunt. They taught that if you worship these Gods you are actually worshipping an evil being. That following the evil beings would result in you going to a place of punishment after you died. Unfortunately to hide the truth they discouraged people from asking too many questions and a lot of religious history was lost because of this.So no, the occult is not banned because it is about the unknown. The occult is banned simply because they want to keep it unknown and mysterious.
Not necessarily. Different religions teach different views on magic, and even within a religion, opinions may differ.
an age limit to buy alcohol forbid people from buying alcohol.
Ghosts are not purposely secretive. A ghost does not have human form, because of this, most people can not see them.
Most religious people today are not intolerant in the way the Church was in medieval times. So, it can be a false stereotype to attribute intolerance of condemnation to the great majority of religious people of any faith. Those who do harbour such feelings are more likely to condemn magic and occult practices, including the use of oija boards, than science.