(AgapePress) - A national fast-food chain is now including black magic in its "Kids Meals."

It has become the staple of late-night television infomercials -- the fortune-telling, tarot card-reading charlatans who promise viewers that, for a nominal fee, they can predict the future. The use of tarot cards is linked to the occult. Now, Taco Bell has begun giving out tarot cards in their "Kids Meals."

Randy Sharp, special projects director for the American Family Association, says Taco Bell is attempting to cash in on the "Harry Potter" craze of black magic -- and that families should beware.

"[The tarot card promotion] is part of an occult because these cards teach kids that they can predict [their own] future ... simply by turning over a playing card," Sharp says. "This is very dangerous, especially when you look at the occult [and] the controversy that Harry Potter brings with magical spells and sorcery."

The popular series of Harry Potter books and a recently released movie based on one of those books have been sharply criticized by many Christian and pro-family organizations around the U.S. as promoting witchcraft in a positive light.

Sharp recommends that families stay away from Taco Bell or any other restaurant that offers tarot cards or other occult symbols to young children. "Any parent who’s concerned about their children and the sorcery and the witchcraft and the fortune-telling that is presented in tarot cards, might want to avoid Taco Bell," he says. "There are alternative places to eat."

Sharp says Taco Bell and its parent company have no concern for the potential harm they could cause by promoting witchcraft and black magic. He believes they are concerned only with profit.

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