Posted on 10/29/2014 6:06:11 PM PDT by lifeofgrace
Then he shouldnt celebrate christmas or easter either as they are both pagan holidays as well.
We did decorate this year. Our house and yard accurately reflects the people who live in our area. Cold, dead, haunted souls who vote democrat.
This guy could have developed constructive alternatives for his family in far less time than it took to write this screed.
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How do you know that he didn’t do both?
When I waas a kid ~50 years ago I rans around for a few hours and collected a LOT of candy (2 pillow case fills when 11). I had a lot of fun and a month + worth of candy. The OP needs to lighten up a bit.
Exactly right, and glad you could admit it.
They’ll say stop celebrating Valentine’s Day because the heart symbol looks like an upside down ass.
I won’t flame you, I’ll just tell you how we deal with Halloween as Christians. Just as Christ transformed Death into Life, we make Halloween a celebration of Life. We dress up as our heroes, our house is bathed in light (not spooky decorations). We give out candy and little toys with positive messages. We take the opportunity to meet the neighbors and their children. And we send off each visitor with “God bless!”
Christ called us to be the Light of the World. Not to merely curse the darkness.
” I and my wife simply oppose the values that go along with Halloween—the celebration of darkness, horror, fear, and mayhem. “
Yes, I see...
Often, when 2 year-olds come to my front door, dressed a princess, I see right through their guise to their true intent - celebrating DARKNESS!!! And HORROR!!!!! AND FEAR!!!! And MAYHEM (like that insurance commercial!!!)!!!!
Oh, they try to hide it. I often see their parents lurking out by the street, the blood dripping from their evil zombie mouths, barely hidden in the darkness.
Lighten up Francis!
Growing up Catholic, we celebrated Halloween because Oct. 31 was “All Hallows Eve,” the night before “All Saints Day” (Nov. 1).
“Hallow” means “holy.”
I agree that the way it’s celebrated these days doesn’t seem very holy. But I read somewhere that people used to dress up as the saints - in the way the saints (many of whom were martyrs) died. That might explain some of the gruesomeness of Halloween.
Oh okay. Now I understand. There’s a hefty chunk of Catholic-bashing in your article. Ugh.
Calvinist?
By that logic the author shouldn’t celebrate that pagan festival that has taken on the name Christmas.....
LOL. Our school (Catholic) gave us boxes to collect for “pagan babies” while trick-or-treating.
How can you not like seeing these kids?
Google images of all sorts of horror. Lasting memories for these kids plus they get to interact with the neighbors.
http://tinyurl.com/kgklj5l
Sheesh.
Let the kids dress up as ballerinas or tigers and go get candy.
Sheesh.
Let the kids dress up as ballerinas or tigers and go get candy.
Its fun to be scared of ghosts and ghouls, just like going to a scary movie. It doesn’t mean you condone bad things that happen in the movie or the Halloween witches and zombies, its just some good clean fun. Our kids love it and really focus more on dressing up and getting candy.
Now, the many adult parades and celebrations are definitely not kid friendly and those events celebrate depravity. I would suggest you focus your ire on those events rather than the harmless fun the kids have. I think I turned out ok. I dressed up as a ghost, c3po and superman when I was little and I don’t think it damaged me at all, or at least not much....
Cool pumpkin. Too bad he now needs a 21 day quarantine.
Ha ha—same thing happened to me!
Projection issues much?
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