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How & Why to Re-focus Halloween as a "Fall Festival"
GTBE email ^ | 10/07/05 | self

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."
(excerpt from email) GREAT RESOURCE SITE for Teachers, Parents & Students.


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Information from the site includes quotes from "Occult Crime Control: The Law Enforcement Manual of Investigation, Analysis, and Prevention," concerning the problem of "self-styled Satanists" in high school students.
1 posted on 10/07/2005 10:14:28 AM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance
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To: EdReform; trussell; little jeremiah; Born Conservative; NYer; Salvation; Victoria Delsoul; All

Please send this info to non-FReeper teachers, parents and students.

Thanks.


3 posted on 10/07/2005 10:16:37 AM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance (SAVE THE BRAINFOREST! Boycott the RED Dead Tree Media & NUKE the DNC Class Action Temper Tantrum!)
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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..............


4 posted on 10/07/2005 10:17:06 AM PDT by Red Badger (In life, you don't get what you deserve. You get what you settle for...........)
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To: Blurblogger
I prefer the ghoulish as part of my Halloween.

Of course the reason the schools in my neck of the woods went to "Fall Festival" was to not offend practicing witches. Geesh!

5 posted on 10/07/2005 10:18:15 AM PDT by Horatio Gates (The pen is mightier than the sword...when it's stuck in the skull of the dude with the sword)
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To: Blurblogger

Look, Halloween is fun. It's this sort of Jack Chick-ian view that gives Christianity a bad, prudish name.


6 posted on 10/07/2005 10:18:19 AM PDT by Tim Long (Gingrich Brownback '08)
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To: Blurblogger

GTBE, isn't that a gay advocacy group? < kidding > LOL


7 posted on 10/07/2005 10:18:30 AM PDT by Mister Baredog (("It dawned on me that I was present at the birth of a political jihad."))
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To: Blurblogger

Here's what you need to do if you're concerned about this: chill.


8 posted on 10/07/2005 10:19:31 AM PDT by Minn
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To: Tim Long

Long live Jack Chick! Where's your Chick tracks?


9 posted on 10/07/2005 10:20:24 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We have the government we allow and deserve.)
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Please send this info to non-FReeper teachers, parents and students.

Why? So even more people can laugh at this?
10 posted on 10/07/2005 10:21:34 AM PDT by drjimmy
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To: drjimmy

"Why? So even more people can laugh at this?"

Right. It's embarrassing enough having it here on FR.


11 posted on 10/07/2005 10:23:20 AM PDT by bonfire (dwindler)
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To: Blurblogger

OMG!! Someone, somewhere is having fun, we must put a stop to it!


12 posted on 10/07/2005 10:23:21 AM PDT by rattrap
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To: Horatio Gates; mad puppy
I just got my Halloween mask. How do you like it?


13 posted on 10/07/2005 10:24:23 AM PDT by SirChas (I seem to be rapidly approaching the apex of my mediocre career)
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To: Red Badger

Well said.


14 posted on 10/07/2005 10:24:27 AM PDT by happinesswithoutpeace (You are receiving this broadcast as a dream)
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To: Blurblogger

Aw, cmon...we're a long way from what 'All Hallows Eve' used to be back in the get-down and party days of the Druids. Sheesh! Keep it Halloween not some warm fuzzy excuse of a Holiday.


15 posted on 10/07/2005 10:25:36 AM PDT by Leg Olam ("There is no Hell. There is only France." F. Zappa)
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To: Blurblogger

And remember! It's not Christmas anymore, its the "Holiday Season".


16 posted on 10/07/2005 10:25:38 AM PDT by Wolfie
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To: Blurblogger
Bu-rother.

Right Wing Political Correctness is just as stupid as Left Wing Political Correctness.

Halloween has always been a fun time for the kids and adults. It also lets us address and laugh at Death and Evil.

I know a place where you can get a loan and rent a life.
17 posted on 10/07/2005 10:25:47 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Durka Durka Durka. Muhammed Jihad Durka.)
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Sheesh. This is just as bad as what the libs do with making Christmas a "Winter Holiday".


18 posted on 10/07/2005 10:26:03 AM PDT by itslex71 (southern by birth, republican by the grace of my dad)
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To: drjimmy

When this type of stuff gets posted it reminds me that I need to go get some pumpkins!


19 posted on 10/07/2005 10:26:54 AM PDT by happinesswithoutpeace (You are receiving this broadcast as a dream)
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This is silly! Halloween is just fun, for kids and adults. Dress-up, candy, parties. FUN! Not evil! This is SILLY!


20 posted on 10/07/2005 10:27:21 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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