Did you ever make a wish when you saw a falling star? Seems innocent enough, right? Well.........leave it to an Armstrongite to find something pagan or demonic about it.
We all heard a gazillion times over how those nasty angels of light rebelled against God and were cast out of heaven and down to earth. Yada, yada, yada. So the logical conclusion for those trained in Armstrongism is to equate the falling stars streaking across the sky at night as fallen angels. So when you make a wish on a falling star you are wishing on a fallen angel/demon to make it come true. I kid you not!
Yahoo comment:
I was thinking of something not too long ago, and wondered if anyone else had thought of this.... you know how stars are sometimes used to represent angels in the Bible? Then there are "fallen" stars...and I wondered about the phrase we used to recite about wishing on a falling star... does that have some pagan origin...or am I just tired and reading too much into it?!!
I can just hear Dr. Bob Thiel right now:
"We in the TRUE Church of God KNOW that a third of the angels fell from heaven when they rebelled against God. We in the Living Church of God know that these fallen angels are now demons. No true Christian would be allowing their children to make wishes on stars, nor would adult true Christians do such a thing. Regular readers here would know that we in the true Church of God know that wishes should actually be prayers and we are to direct our prayers to God alone. We in the True Church of God do not pray to demons or ask them to influence God."
A "falling star" or a "shooting star" has nothing at all to do with a star! These amazing streaks of light you can sometimes see in the night sky are caused by tiny bits of dust and rock called meteoroids falling into the Earth's atmosphere and burning up. The short-lived trail of light the burning meteoroid produces is called a meteor. Meteors are commonly called falling stars or shooting stars. If any part of the meteoroid survives burning up and actually hits the Earth, that remaining bit is then called a meteorite.