Posted on 10/18/2014 12:03:30 PM PDT by lifeofgrace
Here we go again!
I do admit that in the last 20 years, Halloween in American inner cities has been a disaster - called Devil’s Night. Of course, this Holy Day was never meant to be that. It’s simply a very European attitude towards honoring the dead. Which I do every Halloween. A candle for a loved one! And a bit of candy for a sweet child at the door dressed up in her finest.
Dude needs to get a life, there are important things to worry about!
Ah, the yearly “Halloween is eeevil” article.
Well he does have a point there. For the past several years I've purchased candy that ultimately had to be thrown away since I never had any trick or treaters.......and I don't eat candy.
We, and some of our neighbors go all out to make it as fun and interesting as possible.
When we can, we find ways to include a little political education as well.
Making demos look as scary as they really are, etc.
When costumed kids come trick or treating to your door on halloween, what do you do?
Sorry, I only read the excerpt as that was plenty.
I was ruined as a kid? That seems odd as I have lived a long, happy and fruitful life. My daughter is quite well-adjusted too.
Obsession with evil gives evil the power to dwell in your mind. I suggest you turn away from evil and think positive.
No kidding.
This crap reeks of liberalism.
I was big on halloween as a kid. Not so much now. But my favorite ride at Disney is “the haunted mansion”, the ultimate haunted house ride:
When hinges creak in doorless chambers,
And strange and frightful sounds echo through the halls.
Wherever candle lights flicker, though the air is deathly still,
That is the time ghosts are present, practicing their terror with ghoulish delight!
Welcome, foolish mortals to the haunted mansion!
Muahaha!
CC
Sounds like you're doing it wrong.
For the last few years, every October someone, who has forgotten their childhood, comes up with this crap. As far as I'm concerned, these are folks that feel that a smile or the laugh of a child is somehow an affront to our Lord. I shake my head and wonder at the smallness of some people.
Here we go again.
This is becoming as predictable as a political advertising and every bit as boring.
It’s harmless,but some lawn displays go too far with their fascination with death.
I never even considered having my kids involved in Halloween. I just saw the roots of it, the overtones of evil, and that was enough for me. Thanks, but no thanks.
I don’t make a big deal of it. It’s just something that never appealed to me. As well, my kids are just fine. In fact, as Christians, they appreciated my going against the flow and standing up against it. I was quite taken aback that there were only 2 other families in our little private Christian school who didn’t participate. To me it was a no-brainer.
Ha! Here at the Jersey Shore we had an ancient Haunted House at one of our oldest amusement parks. You rode on shaky trolleys through the dark and spooks would pop out at you at various intervals. Completely unscary but somehow charming of a time gone by. Hurricane Sandy destroyed it, unfortunately.
I had a friend who had three tombstones on her front lawn for Halloween decorations, with the name of each of her three kids on them. That just blew me away.
Those heathens are goin’ ta HEY-Yell. They probably even go to a church that don’t a have an old lady playing organ music. (/sarc)
Some people are really bothered by the idea that other people might be having fun.
One thing my local nursery does is sell clay skulls at this time of year. They build them high into a pyramid. Every year I tell them: it looks like the killing fields of Cambodia - completely unappealing. They simply don’t get it. A pumpkin, a scarecrow, a ghoul...but skulls? Really ugly.
As they would say on a Geico commercial, “Halloween is stupid because it doesn’t have a brain.”
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