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
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.
every year without fail.... some variant of this thread pops up.
Happy Halloween everyone lolol
Thanks DouglasKC. I hope your OP lifts the scales from at least one person’s eyes.
bttt
This post and comment section is a great reminder of the fact that there are people in the world who are horrified that somewhere, someone is having fun.
When I was a kid in the fifties, the vandalism side of Halloween had wide expression. There was even a "mischief night," the night before, when pranks were supposed to have license. This notion seems to have been successfully suppressed. I have a distinct memory of being out with a grade school classmate of casual acquaintance, whether on mischief night or Halloween I can't remember. I think the latter since I recall expressing some kind of disapproval of pranks, when we happened to be at my own house, and he ironically stated, "Oh, I would never do anything like that," even as he "soaped" the window of our car in the driveway. It was a shock to me, as I had no idea that he was carrying it. He just laughed. I remember his name, actually, if not the exact spelling ... but you know, it must have been mischief night, because we weren't wearing costumes. What was I doing out? Can't remember.
Well, here we go. Google has their Halloween banner up, and when I clicked on all the doors, plus the garbage cans on the left, it gave me a search page on “Happy Halloween”. This included some videos at the bottom of an attractive woman’s face drooling blood. Clicking on one of them results in a very realistic and repulsive view ...
Happy Halloween from Google.
Funny how it's all right for Mexican and Polish Catholics to be against "halloween" (and Russian Orthodox too for that matter) but in America if you don't embrace "halloween" you're not a good Catholic (sort of how American Catholics have to believe in evolution in order to prove they're not Protestants!).
Meanwhile the Biblical holidays are forbidden as anti-chrstian. And I suppose they are.
I'll take the Bible over chrstianity any day.
Of course it’s harmless. It’s simply a fun tradition of kids dressing up as spooky things that aren’t real, and getting candy from those who wish to give it to them.
Many people prefer not to observe Halloween for any number of reasons. I don’t because I don’t believe Jesus Christ would want me to...others may not have the money in these times of high unemployment. Ergo; here’s a simple rule everyone should be able to understand...porch light on, come get your goodies. Porch light off, move on.
All Saints had nothing to do with Samhain originally. The earliest Irish martyrologies show that the Irish Church celebrated All Saints day in April. It was later moved to November 1st to bring it in line with the Roman All Saints Day. The Roman All Saints Day was chosen to commemorate the dedication of a Church to All the Saints on that day....the Romans didn't give a rat's rear about Samhain or Celtic religion in general.
As I gave candy last night I also advised to, “Brush your teeth.”