Posted on 10/20/2005 11:09:48 AM PDT by Millee
An Ellettsville family whose home is decorated for Halloween contacted police after someone placed on its porch a flier that suggests Halloween praises the devil.
Dalene Gully told Indianapolis television station WRTV that she took offense to the flier, which was placed outside her home by the House of Prayer Church of Bloomington.
"I started reading it, and I was very, very upset by it. I found it very accusatory and very threatening," Gully said.
The church's pastor, Larry Mitchell, said the people who left the flier would have preferred to talk with Gully, but she wasn't there.
Mitchell said the church didn't intend to upset the Gully family, but rather tell people that Halloween isn't harmless fun.
"Halloween is not fantasy," Mitchell said. "We're training up our children, and obviously this lady was trained up in this. Halloween seems like it is taking just as much prominence as Christmas."
The Gully family filed a complaint with the Ellettsville Police Department. The incident also prompted the family to install an alarm system at the home, the station reported.
"This is my home, and I like Halloween. If I want to decorate my home, I have every right to decorate my home," Gully said.
Let's not get started on demon-love, or we'll all get kicked off the thread...
LOL!
So THAT is where Aunt Bertha went ;)
It's a reference to Proverbs 22:6
"Yes, that would be a good step one. Step two would be to have the kids dress up as House of Prayer busybodies when they go trick-or-treating, complete with wads of kooky flyers in their hands. All the sane people in the neighborhood would get a kick out of it."
OOOH! I'll print up a bunch of atheist tracts, and hand them out this Haloween. Oh, wait...there aren't any atheist tracts.
Never mind. I'll just use Jack Chick tracts. They'd have the same effect on sane people.
Hey, leave the guy alone. Geez, there's too much negativity here towards those who join the website, even despite the fact that the front page says "JUMP RIGHT IN!". The length of time he's been here isn't relevant to the discussion, nor should you try to make it so. Besides, nothing he said was insulting.
And I hear it smells just like chicken :)
I agree with you, but how do you know the letter was threatening? The lady said it made her "feel" threatened, but that could just be hyper-sensitivity or exageration on her part.
Nice of you to sign up today just to display your stupidity.
I wonder how he knew?
"...makes people afraid of evangelical christians..."
Oh, puh-LEEEZE
That's absolutely ridiculous.
The pumpkin was introduced into Europe inn the 1600s. The vegetable is native to South America.
The practice of carving pumpkins into jack-o-lanterns didn't start until the late 1600s or early 1700s in the British Isles.
It started out as a variation on the practice of carving cheap candleholders out of turnips.
By the mid-1700s they became purely decorative and associated with Halloween.
You might find this carving pattern useful. ;-)
Egad! I haven't seen a Jack Chick reference around here in months! They'll be diggin' up Lew Rockwell next. Ah, the good old days...
I have told this story before on FR, regarding Halloween, guess I will tell it again...
Many years ago, when I took my boys trick-or-treating, we came to one house where the two children of the house, were sitting on the fence outside of their house, and handing out religious tracts to the other kids, all the while, telling them how sinful they were for participating in Halloween activities...mom and dad stood in the doorway, just beaming over their childrens activities...
Many months later, there was a great big ruckus at this house...Paramedics, and police were at this house...seems dad came home early one day and found mom in a 'compromising' situation with another man...dad proceeded to shoot mom...dad was taken to jail, mom to the hospital...
I guess children participating in Halloween activities were sinful, but adultery and attempted murder were somehow not considered sinful in this household...
An extreme case, I would grant you..but it just shows great hypocrisy on these parents part...It was easier to point out others sins, than to deal with their own sins..
There are those who will find evil, and sin, no matter where they look...but only sin and evil in others...better these busybodies look into a mirror, and to their own families...
It's also not groovy.
No, she said it was threatening.
Is it sung to the same tune as "Muskrat Love"?
He appears to have been banned. Perhaps he was a retread?
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