Posted on 10/22/2013 5:24:37 AM PDT by Keli Kilohana
Ban Halloween just because you’re catching flak over observance of your favored holiday? How childish. Go suck on a lemon pastor!
I went to Catholic Parochial schools grades K-10. this was back in the 1950s and early 60s. the kids who went to public schools got a little of this and a little of that around the holidays, but mostly no religious anything and that was over 50 years ago. I sent my kids to public schools, but made sure they had religious instruction once a week at least.
so send your kids to religious instruction and try to get the public schools to TEACH math, reading.....get these schools to teach REAL history and not leftist propaganda. I could care less if they did not teach religion. that is up to you.
not only do I not want public schools to teach religion, I am glad they are not touching it. I agree the schools are warehousing/babysitting services lately and kids only take home the basics in education, if the parents reinforce the basics with their kids, and work with them, they will get a decent education....
or you can home school...another viable possibility. but don’t do what my son’s friend’s parents did, and homeschool, without doing the work and raised a kid who is now struggling to get her HS diploma so that the college she is attending will continue her education. they said they were home schooling but did next to nothing for her.
probably...he was a bit of a ‘Richard’.
my kids called him ‘Churchy’ which is what Homer Simpson called his pastor once.....
In Detroit I remember “Devil's Night” where so many people fired pistols into the air (at the time) we thought we were in the Mekong River Delta, under fire. It was damn scary and I'd say to folks, “you know, the rounds you just fired have to come down SOMEWHERE!
Good things those neighbors didn't live in Detroit, they'd been hit from all sides by mortar fire... :-)
The reason most often given for banning Christmas from public office and schools is :the separation of church and state.” That phrase DOE NOT appear in the Constitution. However, the first amendment does state that Congress shall not establish or prevent the free exercise of religion. Favoring the religion of Wicca over the religion of Hinduism seems to establish a religion—Wicca. Therefore, neither should be promoted in public schools or offices. Fair is fair!
I flew Hueys in Vietnam, so I’ve seen death, too. Evacd lots of body bags.
Halloween is way overblown with too much adult participation.
So you have a happy Halloween.
CC
Jack Chic tracts are designed to be completely off the charts.
CC
We stopped doing halloweird many years ago.
Yes, let’s just ban ALL holidays, religious or otherwise. While you’re at it, eliminate days off on Saturday and Sunday, and NO days off for national holidays, and NO holiday pay or time off either, unless you’re a muslim, then take all the time off you want.
The audacity of their hypocrisy is astounding.
Truthfully, I’m not so much in favor of banishing Halloween, but expanding on it.
Hallow ‘een (Hallow eve)(”holy evening”) is actually a three day holiday. It is followed on November 1st by All Saints’ Day, and on November 2nd by All Souls’ Day.
In Christianity, it initiates the “triduum” of “Hallowmas”, the time in the liturgical year dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the faithful departed believers.
Halloween could poetically be looked at as beckoning the impure dead, the damned, the monstrous and evil, to come forth to the world to be greeted by the Saints who may redeem them to heaven the next day (or send them packing). All invisibly to man, who stands in the middle.
Then after this is done, on the third day, the pure souls are greeted and honored, without the presence of evil.
Truthfully there is a fourth and fifth day of this cycle, Christmas and New Years’ eve. Christmas representing the birth of redemption and life, and the fireworks and joy of New Years’ eve, which celebrates the end of death, and the birth of the new.
Thank you, I will.
Hallowe’en is also known as “The Third Harvet”, in older agrarian communities.
The First Harvest is grain, and is associated with August 1st. This is where the ‘loaf mass’ originated.
The Second Harvest occurs on Sept. 22, the Fall Equinox, and is the harvest of all the vegetables and other grain, including corn. This is where the picture of The Cornucopia stems from, The Abundant Harvest.
The Third Harvest, associated with Oct. 31st, is the slaughtering of the stock animals, in preparation for winter.
So, calling a Harvest celebration, would not only be fair, but correct, as well.
What surprises me is how many “Christians” are upset about the possibility of losing Halloween—but, hardly peeped when Jesus was replaced by Frosty the Snowman.
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