TRICK or TREAT; YES or NO??

Me

[X-Servative]

Playing with my children (5 & 3) last night, the innocence of childhood took on new meaning with all that has happened over the past 6 to 7 weeks. It is our job as parents to ensure that our children are safe, all the while preserving the innocence and magic of childhood. Therefore, we will be trick or treating this year, and possibly exchange the candy for some we bought when they’re not looking (haven’t decided yet).

Bottom line: these terrorists will not steal my chidren’s childhood by replacing fear with joy.

Happy Halloween!!!

[Don Myers]

If we start losing kids due to "continuing our life as normal," I wonder how many parents will regret their decision to let the children have their "innocence."

[Physicist]

Seriously though there is a story behind all of this ritual but I don't have it handy. Maybe someone else around here does.

Why here it is:

[Don Myers]

"unless you plan on lumping the Easter Bunny in there"

Do you folks worship the Easter Bunny where you live?

[PJ-Comix]

It's all explained by Jack Chick. In my household we worship everything Jack Chick says. We even have Jack Chick nightlights on the walls. Thank you, Jack Chick, for showing us the Way and inspiring me to become a comix satirist.

[goodnesswins]

I'm not giving out candy - giving out QUARTERS...like someone on a thread yesterday suggested. Saves me money, calories and is safer. And the kids can do what they want with it.

[Physicist]

D'oh! So you were busy scooping me while I was searching around for it.

Well, I'll just have to give them another one.

[AppyPappy]

YES

[TightSqueeze]

Here in Sodom...

Would that be uptown sodom, or downtown? It does make a difference you know.

[KentuckyWoman]

Try this: Wicca.com

It was originally the Feast of Samhain (Celtic) and this site even explains the jack-o-lantern (originally gourds).

[PJ-Comix]

Thanx for reposting that Jack Chick link. Until Jack Chick came out with the BOO! tract we all thought that Halloween was just a fun holiday. Thanx to Jack Chick we have found something new to be fearful about. I am praying that Jack Chick will also reveal how the Tooth Fairy is really Satan incarnate.

Fortunately I now have Jack Chick nightlights on all my walls to ward off the evil Satanic forces that might sneak into my abode.

[-YYZ-]

Y'know, it is kind of ironic, though: we tell kids to avoid strangers ("don't take candy from strangers") the rest of the year, and then send them begging candy door to door one night of the year. Kinda funny, I think.

[Redcloak]

If we as a people are too frightened to do normal things, like taking our kids trick-or-treating or to the mall or to a baseball game, then we neither deserve to win this war nor deserve to exist as a nation. Courage founded this nation. When we cease to be couragous, then we will cease to be a nation. Our forefathers would laugh themselves into seizures if they could see the things that "stress" us today.

[AppyPappy]

For a decade, we X-rayed candy at the local hospital as a service project. We never found a thing.

[danneskjold]

Do you folks worship the Easter Bunny where you live?

I guess my (too) subtle point about kids getting candy at Halloween and Easter was missed.

[TontoKowalski]

Thanks for the infusion of common sense.

Maybe we're lucky, but we know and trust our neighbors. We wouldn't take Tonto Junior to a household we weren't familiar with, terrorists or no terrorists.

I'm a Christian, and I think the Lord smiles when kids have fun. Letting kids dress up in costume and gig willing neighbors for candy bars fits my definition of good clean fun. If, however, your Halloween traditions include satanic worship, then you probably need help.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Large candy bars have probably not been tampered with, along with packages of cookies and candy from the bulk food bins.

[Don Myers]

No, it wasn't missed. But my subtle humor was.

[Atticus]

Is Halloween during Ramadan? If so, your kids will be fine. The terrorists don't kill people during Ramadan (yeah, right!)

[ArGee]

What are you doing this Halloween with your kids?

We'll do what we do every year. Go out to eat and then go home and watch a movie. We haven't "celebrated" halloween for over ten years. Can't see any value in it myself. Teach the kids to go door to door begging? Get them sick on candy?

I can remember lots of halloweens I didn't even like. It was too much trouble with no real value.

Shalom.

[danneskjold]

No, it wasn't missed. But my subtle humor was.

It wasn't. My response was to anyone else that might not have "gotten it".

Thanks...