Tarot cards were created for the purpose of game playing and nothing more. Tarot is really a type of card game having nothing to do with Kabbalah, ancient Egypt, Eastern religions, or Native American spirituality. The marketing of Tarot cards by the New Age publishing industries in conjunction with the above phenomena is a form of cultural thievery based on nothing more than pseudohistory. This is a forum primarily for the discussion of stereotypes and cultural appropriation issues related to the New Age marketing of Tarot cards for divination. All critics of Tarot divination and other forms of New Age cultural theft, regardless of religion or lack of religion, are welcome. Players of Tarot card games, Renaissance historians, and skeptics of paranormal claims are also welcome.

"The Tarot pack is the subject of the most successful propaganda campaign ever launched: not by a long way the most important, but the most completely successful. An entire false history, and false interpretation, of the Tarot pack was concocted by the occultists; and it is all but universally believed". A Wicked Pack of Cards, by Michael Dummett

"People are often suprised to learn that Tarot cards were originally invented for playing games, that such games are still widespread and popular in continental Europe, and that the employment of tarots for divination and fortune-telling is a relatively recent perversion of their proper use, dating only from the eighteenth century".
The Penguin Encyclopedia of Card Games, by David Parlett