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The Living Waters Podcast

Ep. 376 - The Pagan Revival: Why Witchcraft Is Exploding Among Teens

The Living Waters Podcast

Living Waters

Evangelism, Apologetics, Jesus, Spirituality, Religion, Christianity, Gospel, Creation, Religion & Spirituality, Salvation, Prolife, Faith, Witnessing, Theology

4.93K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

What happens when a generation openly pursues the supernatural while turning away from God, searching for meaning and identity in everything but Him? Ray, E.Z., Mark, and Oscar dive into the rising tide of paganism, astrology, witchcraft, and spiritual experimentation among Gen Z, exploring why young people are so drawn to these practices and what this reveals about both the culture and the church. The guys emphasize that this hunger points to a deeper spiritual void that only Christ can fill...

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0:00.0

There's like a thirst for transcendence, right?

0:03.6

There's a thirst for spirituality.

0:06.1

And so there's a drifting, a gravitating.

0:09.4

Use that word towards anything that's spiritual,

0:11.7

as long as it doesn't include repentance.

0:13.7

Yeah, good point.

0:14.5

Right?

0:15.5

One person worded like this, astrology gives meaning without surrender.

0:20.5

Territ gives guidance without holiness, and manifestation

0:23.6

offers control without a king, right? But only Christ gives life, only Christ gives truth,

0:29.9

only Christ gives meaning to these things that we are experiencing on the daily. We hunger and

0:37.3

thirst for a transcendent understanding

0:40.3

to what is happening around us. And only the Christian can make sense to it because we seek

0:46.3

after repentance, not just spirituality. We're spiritual beings. And as spiritual beings, we try to

0:52.3

fill that whole of spirituality with something, and this is why the world is throwing, vomiting, everything up before you.

0:59.0

And unfortunately, the young generation especially is willing to swallow that regurgitation of whatever it is, if it's not dealing with God.

1:08.0

It's something that we're going to do. if it's not dealing with God.

1:18.5

It's something that we like to call being Fly on the Wall.

1:19.0

Yeah.

1:20.7

That's a cool segment.

1:21.2

That's right.

1:24.1

That's actually a confirmation as to what I'm going to talk about.

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