I hope not for a ban but a boycott of Halloween. It’s out of control nuts with the yard displays, adults in costume, etc. Harmless? Not to the pocketbook these days
Or maybe I’m just getting old. The more funerals I have to attend, the less I see anything funny or lighthearted about death, tombstones, coffins, skeletons, or ghosts.
Just another medieval festival from pagan days that has outlived its usefulness (go ahead & snark “Don’t you mean Christmas!!?”)
Guy across the street used to give out pamphlets to kids on Halloween saying they would go to hell because of their pagan practices.
Now whose house do you think got egged.
Later years he gave out treats with the pamphlets. Treats got eaten. Pamphlets got trashed.
Let the kids have their fun. That’s all it is. Kid fun. Look for demons in the demonrat party.
CC
Nuts!!!!
Halloween is a uniquely American holiday with no serious religious connections!!
I love it!!
In typical American fashion, we have turned what was the scariest night of the year to medieval pagans and the superstitious, into an excuse for a party. Gotta love America.
There is no such thing in the Constitution.
Sorry to be picky.
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Ban Halloween just because you’re catching flak over observance of your favored holiday? How childish. Go suck on a lemon pastor!
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.
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.
