[if a woman pretends to be a man who pretends to be woman, does the universe explode?]
It's survived thus far.
Posted on 10/29/2009 8:15:56 PM PDT by tlb
. TV preacher Pat Robertson’s Web site has just issued a bulletin warning Americans of the real threat we face this season: Demons may be lurking in our Halloween candy.
In a column on the Christian Broadcasting Network’s Web site, writer Kimberly Daniels asserts that “demons” sneak into bags of Halloween candy at grocery stores.
“[M]ost of the candy sold during this season has been dedicated and prayed over by witches,” Daniels wrote. “I do not buy candy during the Halloween season. Curses are sent through the tricks and treats of the innocent whether they get it by going door to door or by purchasing it from the local grocery store. The demons cannot tell the difference.”
The Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, urged Robertson and Daniels to lighten up.
“I’ve heard of the devil being in the details, but to think he’s lurking inside a Snickers bar is a little too much,” Lynn quipped. “Pat Robertson has always peddled some scary stuff, but this is over the top.”
Daniels asserts that far from being harmless fun, Halloween is a veritable doorway to hell, full of literal monsters.
“Halloween is much more than a holiday filled with fun and tricks or treats,” she wrote. “It is a time for the gathering of evil that masquerades behind the fictitious characters of Dracula, werewolves, mummies and witches on brooms. The truth is that these demons that have been presented as scary cartoons actually exist. I have prayed for witches who are addicted to drinking blood and howling at the moon.”
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Perhaps I've lived in my part of Texas too long. Lots of Pentecostals and Pentecostal-influenced churches here. Reads to me like the usual anti-Halloween diatribe that I've been hearing since I was a kid trick-or-treating back in the mid-70s.
Well, the usual stuff plus some free-association a-historical completely unsubstantited guff about witchcraft mixed in. Something for the grannies so that they can scare the grandkids. Frankly, I was surprised that there wasn't more of an anti-Catholic attack mixed in.
Wasn’t that the plot of “Victor/Victoria?”
Nothing more, nothing less.
Historically speaking, it's not.
Only goofy "neo-pagans," some gullible (or careless) Protestants, and those who read the 19th century literature uncritically make the connection between Samhain and All Hallows Eve.
And there's no such thing as a pan-Celtic "New Year's Eve" celebration.
Any candy bar containing anything other than pure chocolate is the work of the devil. God created chocolate, but the devil sneaks evil tasting nuts, globs of goo, or crispy crap inside.
Two kinds of people give out apples.
Apples are the treat of choice for cheapskates because they know that once the word gets around, kids will skip the apple houses. It’s a friendlier version of turning off all the lights.
Liberal do-gooders like apples too. That’s reason enough to avoid them.
“Give us the rich houses with the sprawling driveways and full-sized candy bars any day. Portion control doesn’t need to start this young.”
We took our daughter trick or treating a couple of years ago to a more upscale neighborhood. Hardly got any candy. Ever since, back in our middle-middle-class neighborhood. There, at one house, they commented on how full her plastic pumpkin was, and gave her a plastic shopping bag so we could dump out the pumpkin and keep going. Everybody is so generous there, that we still have Halloween candy left at Christmas!!!
Might’ve been.
Didn’t watch it.
Thanks! I needed that.
That’s why we always ate Cap’n Crunch! ; )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samhain
Of course, I’ve only been studying Celtic history/archaeology/anthropology/mythology for 30 years so what do I know?
Where’d you get your “knowledge”?
From someplace like this?
http://www.religioustolerance.org/hallo_sa.htm
"And there's no such thing as a pan-Celtic "New Year's Eve" celebration."
Uh, yeah, there is.
The Celts divided the year into *2* halves.
The Gaulish calendar appears to have divided the year into two halves: the 'dark' half, beginning with the month Samonios (the October/November lunation), and the 'light' half, beginning with the month Giamonios (the April/May lunation)
I care nothing for how "goofy "neo-pagans," some gullible (or careless) Protestants and those who read the 19th century literature uncritically" have bastardized history.
LOL, that is brilliant!!
You’re quite welcome.
It’s always amused me to think of those loons out in some field, dancing and “praying” to a deaf and empty sky.
The only reason I pay any attention to them at all is because of what *some* of them do to animals.
Paradoxically, an inordinate amount of them belong to anti-pet ‘anti-cruelty” groups; peta, ALF and the like.
They don’t sacrifice animals outright...they just want them all dead.
I’m going to hand out Obama hope and change stickers this year.
Yeah, and they fly around on brooms and have a black cat on the broom with them. Amazing how the Hollywood images become real to some people.
People like you make it easy for them. Wonder how many you’ve met and never knew it.
Why would I try to tell you anything when you aren't receptive to any information?
LOL!!!
Nonsense. You know, there are better sources than James Frazer and his ilk. Ronald Hutton, for one. He rips that assertion to shreds.
I’ve only been studying Celtic history/archaeology/anthropology/mythology for 30 years so what do I know?
You've been studying the Celts for over 30 years and the best you can do is a link to Wikipedia?
Where’d you get your “knowledge”?
From things called "books." You can find them in places called "libraries."
The Celts divided the year into *2* halves.
The Gaulish calendar appears to have divided the year into two halves: the 'dark' half, beginning with the month Samonios (the October/November lunation), and the 'light' half, beginning with the month Giamonios (the April/May lunation)
The Gauls weren't the only Celts. Remember: pan-Celtic. Further, speculation without context over how the solar year may have been symbolically divided is not the same as proof of the existence of a pan-Celtic New Year's Eve celebration.
By the way, where did you get the citation? Some BBC coffee table book/documentary tie in?
[if a woman pretends to be a man who pretends to be woman, does the universe explode?]
It's survived thus far.
The Coligny Calendar.
You may not be aware of that.
[most of what little evidence is extant comes from the Gaulish records, therefore they are the best surviving *written* documentation]
I used the Wiki page simply because I didn't want to “aim to high” for you and thought something simple would suffice.
BTW, I own books on this subject that you couldn't afford to buy.
I found Frazer's “Golden Bough” amusing but not enough so to ever read another of his works.
What I own are dry, dusty, tedious archaeological/anthropological tomes that trace the migrations of the proto-Celtic/IE peoples from their origins to the “modern” Celts.
Hutton's “Pagan Religions of the British Isles” was quaint but I question his motives.
[as do many others]
http://www.suppressedhistories.net/articles/hutton_review.html
Go read the CARMINA GADELICA instead.
It's contemporaneous.
Don’t speak too soon...I still have ~another~ party to go to....;-D
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