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Remember When Churches in the ’90s Had Sermons About Pokemon Being Demonic?

Remember When Churches in the ’90s Had Sermons About Pokemon Being Demonic?

Monday, September 14, 2026
Somewhere in your parents’ house there is probably a binder of Pokémon cards that got confiscated from you. There was a whole apparatus behind that: Special sermons. VHS tapes. At least one book. All of it arguing that Pikachu was the gateway to the occult. A clip from one of those tapes shows a man…