"You're not yourself when you're hungry."
If you don’t like Halloween, then don’t participate. No one really cares.
I agree with not celebrating Halloween. However, if you’re going to be consistent Christmas and Easter have to go too. The origins of Christmas are in pagan winter solstice celebrations. Just about everything associated with the holiday, from the tree and yule log to gift giving, flows directly from pagan celebrations. Easter is much the same, its origins are in sex and fertility springtime pagan holidays. Thus the rabbits and eggs. I’m all in favor of ridding the church of all of these holidays.
Seems like every year I have to refute this.
The earliest martyrologies we have show that the Celtic Christians indeed celebrated All Saints Day in Spring (I believe April actually). Later martyrologies show it was moved to the Roman date, which was Nov. 1.
But the author got the reason totally wrong.
The reason the Romans celebrated on Nov. 1st is because on that day a church was dedicated in Rome to "All the Saints". It was pretty typical then, as indeed it still is, to celebrate the anniversary of the dedication of a church.
Believe me when I tell you a Roman in the 700s or 800s wouldn't have cared one flying fig about an obscure holiday celebrated by Celtic pagans at the boundaries of the known world.
It’s fun. Don’t worry about Pt. 2.
But it’s fun.
Halloween was instructive to me... taught me to engage adults in a conversation. In particular, when we were visiting grandparents in Wilmington Delaware and my uncle took us around the neighborhood (duplexes and row homes with front porches) This was early 1960’s and there were many older couples there. We knocked on the door, we were invited into the living room and asked about our costumes and coaxed to sing a song or otherwise entertain the people there.
That was a lot of work to get the candy!
Some of the best parties I’ve been to are Halloween Parties,,, never a bad one...
Part one was irritating and boring enough. This guy needs to get the fudgesickle stick surgically removed from his anus and take a couple shots of Bushmills and loosen up a little. :-)
I’ll sit here eating my candy corn and carmel apples waiting for part II.
That can be said for several of our holidays.
We need to shake up our holiday calendar--get rid of Halloween and the above-mentioned holidays, give greater emphasis to Martin Luther King Day, and make Cesar Chavez day (March 31), Cinco de Mayo (May 5) and John F. Kennedy's birthday (May 29) national holidays.
FWIW, a humbug is a public hoax, or one who perpetrates public hoaxes.
P.T. Barnum was known as the "Prince of the Humbugs".
When Ebenezer Scrooge said, "Bah! Humbug!" about Christmas, he was calling it a hoax.
Gee whiz, I just can’t wait for part II. (snicker)
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.
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."
You're sure that this is why we have Halloween?
So All Hallows Eve is not Catholic?
Trying to figure out where you got this erroneous information.