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To: Junior
Your anology is over-the-top wrong. No one raped a little girl and then went on to celebrate it. People lit bonfires to keep away the evil spirits which were thought to walk the Earth on October 31. The Christians coopted it (Halloween being "All Hallows Eve" -- the day before All Saints Day) because they could not stop the average folks from continuing the tradition. That Halloween has morphed over time into a harmless fun day for folks to dress up and have a party speaks to the advancement of society from ignorance to rationality. We can poke fun at superstition.

Actually my analogy is a little mild. Demons love it when you portray them and their ways as "harmless" and "poke fun" at them. They love it that their celebrations have "morphed" into a "harmless" activity. It's a much easier sell.

2Co 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

Your railing against Halloween indicates you are afraid of it and give those superstitions power over you.

I wouldn't say I'm afraid of Halloween, but I am very cognizant that Satan uses that day to drive his agenda. What I'm doing by posting this article is informing the general public that there is indeed an agenda and that they can free themselves from his grip by obeying God.

30 posted on 10/22/2006 11:32:56 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: DouglasKC
I wouldn't say I'm afraid of Halloween, but I am very cognizant that Satan uses that day to drive his agenda.

Tooth decay?

And your analogy! You equate people that celebrate Halloween to people that would celebrate some pig that rapes little girls...sure you are entitled to your opinion, but you are one sick individual.

Satan may indeed be promoting his agenda, but not through Halloween. Rather through religious fanatics reactions to Halloween and their damning of people that celebrate it.

As an aside, I think it would be hilarious to dress up as Dutch 'toon Mohammed, maybe make the bomb out of paper mache and somehow afix it to the turban and glue some cotton painted orange and yellow to the wire "fuse". Unwise but undeniably hilarious.

94 posted on 10/23/2006 1:44:23 AM PDT by AtomicBuffaloWings (Still not hot enough, A few of my taste buds are still alive.)
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To: DouglasKC

Nowhere in the Bible does it say that God does not want us to have candy corn and Snickers bars.


181 posted on 10/23/2006 12:57:40 PM PDT by linda_22003
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