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Is Halloween Harmless?
Good News Magazine ^ | 10/1/2010 | Jerold Aust

Posted on 10/30/2012 8:00:20 PM PDT by DouglasKC

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To: Smokin' Joe

When I was very young, our family doctor lived in our neighborhood.... his house was a big stone “mansion” (to us) that had been there years before the subdivison was built. To get there, you had to walk down (what seemed like) a mile long gravel road surrounded by very tall trees. If you were brave enough to do it, you were rewarded by the doctor’s butler holding a huge silver tray loaded with FULL SIZE Hershey Bars, telling you “take as many as you want.”

Boy.... those were the days.


61 posted on 10/30/2012 9:11:42 PM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1)
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To: goseminoles

Happier than a witch in a broom factory, are you?

“I’m gonna stand up to her.” “No, you’re not.” “You’re right.”

So what makes you think I don’t regard Wicca as satanic?

;^)


62 posted on 10/30/2012 9:12:13 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("Free speech is more important than Islam.")
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To: DouglasKC

And are you also as concerned about people celebrating Christmas (which isn’t the birth of the Saviour at all...not by date anyway. And a mass is about death not life). Or how about Easter ar you ranting about that too?

Selective outrage ceases to impress me


63 posted on 10/30/2012 9:13:40 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: DouglasKC

No.

The more Americans see islamists and evangelicals as the same mindset, the more they’ll cross over.

Good job.


64 posted on 10/30/2012 9:13:54 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (I will fear no muslim))
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To: DouglasKC
A more accurate definition of "Puritans" can be found on Wikipedia:

There are three things you will never catch me doing on this board:


65 posted on 10/30/2012 9:14:50 PM PDT by Fiji Hill (Deo Vindice!)
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To: Nifster

Well, you know.. the Great Pumpkin has all the hallmarks of a demon..


66 posted on 10/30/2012 9:16:22 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (I will fear no muslim))
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To: DouglasKC
Halloween and trick-or-treating have become American traditions; a part of growing up; great memories from our childhood.

Conservatives aren't generally known to mount crusades against American traditions.

The kids aren't celebrating evil or rebelling against God. They're playing make-believe and getting candy.

I have a solution for you: hand out flyers pointing out the evils of Halloween, instead of candy, to the trick-or-treaters when they come to your house. I'll bet you they won't come around next year.

67 posted on 10/30/2012 9:19:10 PM PDT by Washi
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To: DouglasKC
People can (and do) find sin in almost anything when they want to!

Are you one of those who finds evil in nursery rhymes?

Halloween seems to have increased proportionally to the degree with which we've shut God out of government and culture.

Or, to the degree the Chinese discovered ghosts and Jack-O-Lanterns and it's been commercialized!

If you don't like Halloween, fine. Don't go trick or treating!

68 posted on 10/30/2012 9:22:18 PM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: Nifster
And are you also as concerned about people celebrating Christmas (which isn’t the birth of the Saviour at all...not by date anyway. And a mass is about death not life). Or how about Easter ar you ranting about that too? Selective outrage ceases to impress me

My purpose isn't to be outraged about these things. My purpose is to show others that Jesus Christ had holy days that he asked his followers to observe. They are listed in Leviticus chapter 23. That's what Christ intended and what he intended for his followers.

69 posted on 10/30/2012 9:22:54 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: workerbee
The local kids go up to 'snob hill' (where the people are well-to-do, but not snobs), where they will likely get cans of name-brand pop, and some of the more delectable goodies--in more full sized packaging.

One year, my grand daughter was out trick-or-treating in -20 temps (the costume she had on was thick, and she was bundled up inside it). She got handfuls of candy at each stop because of the low turnout.

To the intrepid...

70 posted on 10/30/2012 9:28:44 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: DouglasKC

every year without fail.... some variant of this thread pops up.

Happy Halloween everyone lolol


71 posted on 10/30/2012 9:29:12 PM PDT by Katya (Homo Nosce Te Ipsum)
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To: Smokin' Joe

... go the teeth rotting spoils

heh


72 posted on 10/30/2012 9:33:50 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Washi
Halloween and trick-or-treating have become American traditions; a part of growing up; great memories from our childhood.

These traditions are very new in America and coincide with the liberalization and degradation of our culture and society.

Conservatives aren't generally known to mount crusades against American traditions.

Holy scripture is more important and relevant than modern traditions.

I have a solution for you: hand out flyers pointing out the evils of Halloween, instead of candy, to the trick-or-treaters when they come to your house. I'll bet you they won't come around next year.

I'm not as one dimensional as you seem to think but thanks anyways...

74 posted on 10/30/2012 9:37:36 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: Hardraade
The more Americans see islamists and evangelicals as the same mindset, the more they’ll cross over. Good job.

Right. Look up images for "Halloween Costumes" on google and tell me what you see....liberal or conservative images? It's not conservative to act like liberals and hope we're liked.

75 posted on 10/30/2012 9:41:49 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: Hardraade
The Great Pumpkin, demonic?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGTNj2BEaaM

76 posted on 10/30/2012 9:43:51 PM PDT by CtBigPat (Free Republic - The grown-ups table of the internet.)
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To: DouglasKC

I grew up in a VERY conservative Baptist Church; half of the members didn’t have TV’s, no dancing, make-up was frowned upon...you get the idea.

The youth group designed and hosted a truly fantastic haunted house each year...blood, gore, skeletons, coffins, you name it. The teenage boys had a blast scaring the tar out of everyone!


77 posted on 10/30/2012 9:56:11 PM PDT by garandgal
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To: CtBigPat

I love Adult Swim for the most part. BTW, nobody beats the Kite Eating Tree. B-)


78 posted on 10/30/2012 9:59:20 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (Whitey, I miss you so much. Take care, pretty girl. (4-15-2001 - 10-12-2012))
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To: DouglasKC

Thanks DouglasKC. I hope your OP lifts the scales from at least one person’s eyes.


79 posted on 10/30/2012 10:25:02 PM PDT by roamer_1 (Globalism is just socialism in a business suit.)
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To: DouglasKC

bttt


80 posted on 10/30/2012 10:31:02 PM PDT by timestax (Why not drug tests for the President AND all White Hut staff ? ? ?)
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