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How & Why to Re-focus Halloween as a "Fall Festival"
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Posted on 10/07/2005 10:14:25 AM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance
Re-focus Halloween!
If your school insists on having some kind of Halloween celebration, recommend that they steer away from the ghoulish and occult and, instead, focus on the event as a fall festival. ...
"When you turn evil into a game, it trivializes it and numbs children to its darkness."
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To: Nightshift
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posted on
10/07/2005 10:28:05 AM PDT
by
tutstar
(OurFlorida.true.ws)
To: happinesswithoutpeace
You could make some JackChick-O-Lanterns.
22
posted on
10/07/2005 10:28:11 AM PDT
by
rattrap
To: Lee Heggy123
"'All Hallows Eve' used to be back in the get-down and party days of the Druids."
Samhain..nasty stuff.
To: Wolfie
Right and at my kids' school they have a "Thankful Party" in November.
To: Tim Long
Please. As if folks hostile to Christianity would stop feeling Christianity is bad and prudish.
25
posted on
10/07/2005 10:29:28 AM PDT
by
k2blader
(Hic sunt dracones..)
To: Tim Long
I thought the people who say they are Christians but don't live like the Bible says to live were the ones giving Christianity a bad name.
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posted on
10/07/2005 10:29:38 AM PDT
by
tutstar
(OurFlorida.true.ws)
To: Red Badger
"Why not recognize it for waht it is/was? All Hallows (Saints) Eve? The night before All Saints' Day, originally a Catholic holy day? Nothing evil in that.............."
How about Samhain?
27
posted on
10/07/2005 10:30:21 AM PDT
by
dljordan
To: Blurblogger
Is this satire or unintentional silliness?
28
posted on
10/07/2005 10:30:32 AM PDT
by
SmithL
(There are a lot of people that hate Bush more than they hate terrorists)
To: Blurblogger
If your school insists on having some kind of Halloween celebration, recommend that they steer away from the ghoulish and occultOh for Christ's sake, give it a break! Halloween is nothing more than a harmless ancient pagan celebration of the Druid New Year. Let the kids have their fun. You can thump them on the head with a Bible the following Sunday.
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posted on
10/07/2005 10:31:11 AM PDT
by
elbucko
To: Blurblogger
To: rattrap; Blurblogger
OMG!! Someone, somewhere is having fun, we must put a stop to it!My thoughts exactly. I would wager that "Blurblogger" is known by those close to him/her as "The Enemy of Fun".
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posted on
10/07/2005 10:35:20 AM PDT
by
elbucko
To: Tim Long
Look, Halloween is fun. It's this sort of Jack Chick-ian view that gives Christianity a bad, prudish name.
you think changing halloween to "fall-festival" is bad? a church i went to years ago made itself a "hallelujah" night to counter halloween. which was fine, until it got out of hand. a couple years ago they did a re-enactment of the columbine shootings to show the "evil" in the world today.
made the already bad reputation the church has, even worse.
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posted on
10/07/2005 10:36:08 AM PDT
by
absolootezer0
("My God, why have you forsaken us.. no wait, its the liberals that have forsaken you... my bad")
To: Tim Long; trussell; All
"Look, Halloween is fun"
I trick-or-treated myself as a kid.
That doesn't change the fact that it honors witchcraft etc.
I'm amazed that so many are so blind.
Are you part of the light, or part of the darkness?
33
posted on
10/07/2005 10:37:37 AM PDT
by
The Spirit Of Allegiance
(SAVE THE BRAINFOREST! Boycott the RED Dead Tree Media & NUKE the DNC Class Action Temper Tantrum!)
To: rattrap
Ok..I had no clue who or what a Jack Chick was until a few minutes after you posted that.
To: Wolfie
And remember! It's not Christmas anymore, its the "Holiday Season".And kids don't have a Christmas Break from school anymore. They have a Holiday Break. And Easter Break has morphed into Spring Break.
All this Politically Correct BS is rapidly ruining our country!
35
posted on
10/07/2005 10:38:25 AM PDT
by
upchuck
(A fireman running up the stairs at the WTC as the towers began to collapse: HERO defined ~ Ben Stein)
To: absolootezer0
36
posted on
10/07/2005 10:38:42 AM PDT
by
rattrap
To: Mike Darancette
Samhain never left. In the rural places Samhain was corrupted into saying 'What the Sam Hill' instead of 'what the Devil'. I still hear it used occassionaly.
37
posted on
10/07/2005 10:38:49 AM PDT
by
Leg Olam
("There is no Hell. There is only France." F. Zappa)
To: Blurblogger
I find the whole idea a load of BS.
Halloween is Halloween, Christmas is Christmas and Easter is Easter.
Religious wackos come in all religions.
38
posted on
10/07/2005 10:38:51 AM PDT
by
PeteB570
(Satan made me post this)
To: happinesswithoutpeace
Yesterday while we were driving someplace, wifey noticed a home all decked out in Halloweenie stuff.
I guess that's been a trend that developed over the past several years. I understand Halloween decorations aren't that awfully far behind Christmas, dollarwise.
39
posted on
10/07/2005 10:39:20 AM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(Like a midget at a urinal - stay on your toes...)
To: absolootezer0
...they did a re-enactment of the columbine shootings to show the "evil" in the world today. made the already bad reputation the church has, even worse.
Maybe they shouldn't have used live ammo.
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