Ankerberg Theological Research Institute - The John Ankerberg Show

Ankerberg Theological Research Institute - The John Ankerberg Show:

"The occult nature of the tarot is the principal reason why the church has consistently opposed its use, as even tarot promoters admit:

They represent the outcome of a much more profound doctrine—a secret and forbidden doctrine—a doctrine that was condemned from almost every pulpit in Christian Europe of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries… as some sort of evil influence. Priests dubbed the set of Tarot cards 'The Devil’s Picture Book' and forbade their use for any purpose in most towns and villages."