Stop this fiend!
Posted on 10/29/2014 6:06:11 PM PDT by lifeofgrace
The writer is correct. Halloween is about death. That’s what covens celebrate and it’s their biggest “holiday”. They don’t celebrate Christ’s birth or death so Halloween doesn’t compare at all as a pagan “holiday”.
“Halloween ruins children”
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What an idiot.
I’m 82 years old and still remember ,with great fondness,my childhood Halloweens.
I wasn’t aware that I had been ruined.
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Many Christian’s don’t.
Celebrating Gay marriage is a thousand fold more evil.
Yup. That tells me everything I need to know about this guy. In my book, that shoots any shred of credibility he might have had all to hell.
Stop this fiend!
My kids loved it, so who cares... ? In our neighborhood, Halloween is a together and we pass out treats to the kids.
Nothing ruins children more than the story of Robin Hood.
good for the author
Who told you to stop Halloween?
Nowhere in this article does he ask or tell others not to celebrate Halloween.
do you have arms reaching out of graves with ballots in their hands?
Get over it.....leave the country if you don't like the holidays. So dang sick of it!
Party pooper springs to mind.
If the author chooses not to celebrate Halloween, how does that harm anyone else?
I would venture that some sort of mock/serious festival concerning death, spirits, ghosts, gods, etc., is part of most cultures. You certainly see it in many Christian cultures, Buddhist cultures, Hindu cultures, Native American cultures, and so forth.
The lukewarm church ‘pets demons’ to keep them happy.
It gives idiots justification to complain about Halloween and then places will start banning it. That is how it starts. One dang idiot!!!! They have multiplied all over the place.
And does it without closer examination. Can’t look too closely.
A harvest festival celebrates reaping crops as the fruits of one’s labor. It is connected to the reality of life as a cycle of birth, death, & renewal. Nothing morbid about that.
Yes, by mocking symbols of death like ghosts & graveyards we lose our fear of those things. But since Halloween is followed by All Saints’ Day, it is by its nature an unholy bacchanal or witches’ sabbath of those damned souls unhonored by the holy festival of the following day.
The Church recognized this & created November 2nd as All Souls’ Day for those not believed to be saints.
Yes, kids running door to door collecting candy is harmless or at least it used to be. Nowadays, kids trick-or-treating need adult protection; things are not as safe for children as they once were.
Food for thought: our town paper today published curfews for Halloween. Those fifteen & under must be off the streets by 11:00 p.m. Those up to age 17 must be indoors by 1:00 a.m. I’ll bet the chief of police is having drama with the mayor over those ungodly hours. She’s up for reelection next week, BTW.
Not being stick-in-the-mud; go forth & have a great time, folks! I’ll still leave my front porch lights off.
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