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To: GodsLittleOne
Some christians celebrate lots of secular holidays like christmas, easter and a whole host of other 'holidays'.

Might as well celebrate holloween as long as it's not part of a religious worship service I see no problem with any of them. They are just secular holidays.

8 posted on 10/02/2002 1:09:14 AM PDT by PFKEY
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To: PFKEY
Originally, All Hallows' Eve was one of the great fire festivals of Britain at the time of the Druids. In Scotland it was associated with the time when the spirits of the dead, the demons, witches, and sorcerers were usually active and propitious. Paradoxically, All Hallows' Eve was also a night when young people performed magical rituals to determine their future marriage partners. The youth of the villages carried on with much merry-making and sensual revelry, but the older people took great care to safeguard their homes from the evil spirits, witches, and demons who had exceptional power that night...
11 posted on 10/02/2002 5:45:20 AM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood
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To: PFKEY
Some christians celebrate lots of secular holidays like christmas, easter and a whole host of other 'holidays'.

Might as well celebrate holloween as long as it's not part of a religious worship service I see no problem with any of them. They are just secular holidays.

You are using an invalid argument form. Your two premises are false and therefore cannot have a true conclusion. Does not meet the test of propositional logic. There are also some informal fallacies involved (I won't load you up on the Latin). I will leave you with this...

Søren Kierkegaard from The Sickness Unto Death:

The fantastic is, of course, most closely related to the imagination [Phantasien], but the imagination is related in it’s turn to feeling, understanding, and will, so that a person’s feelings, understanding and will may be fantastic. Fantasy is, in general the medium of infinitization…

This is also stated by Hobbes in other ways, phantasms or apparitions? Religion...

18 posted on 10/02/2002 6:33:48 PM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood
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