Posted on 10/16/2014 11:34:54 AM PDT by lifeofgrace
We did not celebrate Halloweeen. Not for us. It helped the children learn to live out being different from their peers and wasn’t much to give up.
We went to a film or a harvest party on Halloween.
What does that make those nasty orange “circus peanut” things?
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The poop of the Devil?
Yet you'll deny this generation's children the same American tradition that you, yourself, enjoyed.
Every year at this time, we get the same, stick-in-mud, type of anti-Halloween spewage from someone with some sort of axe (religious, political, or otherwise) to grind.
Generations of Americans have grown up with Halloween. It is a uniquely American tradition. It creates great memories for kids.
Go be miserable someplace else.
I like Halloween even more than I used to because it is a “socially encouraged” event that forces smothering parents to open the door of the padded pastel prisons in which they have confined their children, to prevent them from ever experiencing “bad”.
The same kind of parents that don’t want grades given in schools, or scores kept in children’s sports, and who give “participation prizes” to all the kids, stealing their children’s victories and defeats because the parents live in a state of fear and neurosis.
But Halloween means that their children will see *strangers* who live in ways different from their parents, with nothing sanitized or denatured to prevent them from being traumatized and scarred for life.
Which is precisely why children love Halloween, because for once in a year their imaginations are free, they can see new and unexpected things, and how tragic it is for their parents to be so frightened of life.
So you're saying Halloween is like the posted article?
"You're not yourself when you're hungry."
I keep forgetting that’s Louie Anderson on the right. We hardly see him in anything these days.
Isn't that the guy who was married to Carla on "Cheers" ?
You're sure that this is why we have Halloween?
Actually they don’t come from protestant countries, they come from countries with a heavy concentration of Germans. All of the traditions I cited date to pre-reformation German. Austria and the German, Czech and Polish territories all have these traditions in one form or another. They became popular in England only during the Victorian era. Christmas wasn’t popular in the United States until immigration brought us millions of Catholics and didn’t really become popular until the Northeastern WASP’s followed the Victorians and began celebrating.
The fact is the Dutch Reformed, Geneva Calvinists, Puritans and Scottish Presbyterians eliminated Christmas and Easter as unbiblical Catholic holy days. The celebration of Christmas was outlawed in Massachusetts for around a century. It isn’t the protestants that are responsible for Christmas.
I know well the history of Christmas in this country, and I find the Puritan outlawing of it to be reprehensibly reckless and a symptom of their bald historical and theological ignorance.
Partly because of their insanity on this point, assorted folk traditions of Northern Europe which used to have a profound Christian meaning were forced underground and out of the Church’s motherly embrace and into a kind of secular netherworld, where it was a short leap to full-on paganism. So St. Nicholas became Santa Claus. Collecting soul-cakes on All Hallows’ Eve became a day of dress-up and Candy Quest.
The “Northeastern WASPs” who revived Christmas did so out of a sense of restoring beauty and joy to an Anglicanism that the Puritans and their ilk had entirely bled out of parish life. The Victorian Christmas at its best was a beautiful and moving tribute to the Birth of Our Savior—one that even my non-Christian relatives deeply appreciate. That the Puritans’ descendants still don’t get it does not reflect well on them.
Northeaster WASP’s only revived Christmas because it was popular with their counterparts in England. Frankly, the Victorian Christmas revival was a desperate attempt to make religion important in places where its importance had been on a steady decline for a century. It’s hardly surprising that the New England states, which embraced Victorian Christmas the most in the US, were the first to fully break free of Christianity. New England is a cesspool of godless secularism and has been for half a century or more.
England isn’t any better. The decline of the English church dates to the early 19th century and accelerated during and after both 20th century world wars. By the early 60’s, the Christian faith had no foothold in England. Oh but they do love their Victorian Christmas don’t they? Even today it’s the most important holiday in England. Unfortunately few actually believe in Jesus Christ. Christmas is nothing more than a festive event remembering what never really was in England. After all, Victorian Christmas is German, brought to England by Victoria’s German husband Albert and popularized by the Royal Family. It was embraced by a culture that was fleeing Christ and is still embraced by a culture that has long since abandoned Christ. I would hardly hold Victorian Christmas, or Christmas of any sort, on some sort of pedestal.
So All Hallows Eve is not Catholic?
Trying to figure out where you got this erroneous information.
Just one person’s blog. He doesn’t even mention his religion; he just brags about himself.
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