Posted on 10/17/2014 4:16:22 AM PDT by lifeofgrace
My main problems with Halloween are the idea of demanding stuff from others and how it contradicts the whole “Don’t take candy from strangers” thing.
Why are you worried about how much is spent? Are there limits to how much business can make??
No, of course there isn’t. I am mildly criticizing the current wild sums being spent by adults on Halloween which used to be nothing but kids in homemade costumes trick-or-treating for homemade candy & fruit.
Just now seems all out of proportion, that’s all.
This is unfair, but here it comes: How much of all this Halloween stuff is made in China!!!?
If you have any relatives in the police force ask them about incidences of:
1. be-headed cat bodies around a camp fire
2. babies that have been buried recently, dug up
3. puppies that have been “sacrificed”
and any other “ritual” activities they have come across on the night of Halloween.
Another idiotic thread. Solid logic does not need so much bs written. This is nothing but liberal garbage.
My dad would “inspect” our candy before we could eat it...taking out suspicious or torn packaged candy...but oddly all of the Butterfingers were always taken out too....his favorite.
I think it’s a fun holiday to break up the boredom of being halfway between Summer and Winter.
I think any Satanic practices need to come with intent—which simply isn’t there.
We all need to relax a little bit. The only part of your article I agree with is the candy is poison. Candy corn should be banned.
To begin with, I don't agree with some of your negatives, or at least disagree that Halloween is responsible. I do respect your right to post your opinion as much as my right to disagree. I don't really feel the need to justify my position any further than to say that yours seems extreme to me, and it smacks of trying to tell others what to do with their leisure time...they're not hurting anyone. My argument could end right there, but I'll play along.
As far as the positives go, here are a few:
- Many neighborhoods have get-togethers, which IMO strengthen communities.
- Economic activity (treats, costumes, cider & doughnuts, decorations...) - nothing wrong with that.
- Kids and adults have a fun activity to share.
- Costume day at school was always fun, and you could argue that Halloween activities promote social skills.
- Hayrides, haunted houses, etc. - yes I know you disapprove, but I don't. My local sportsman's club does a haunted forest, which generates revenue for what I consider to be an important community group.
- Kids eating candy pisses off Michelle Obama.
Perfect!
October 31st is Reformation Day - The day Martin Luther posted his thesis. Celebrate that.
” can’t bear adults dressing up on Halloween. I first knew Al Gore was a jackass when it became known that he threw a fete every year - once dressing up as Frankenstein or The Mummy or some such nonsense. Such immaturity.”
So you think an adult costume ball is immaturity? Interesting.
I’m not fond of adult’s dressing up in costumes. I think it’s silly. Just my opinion.
Really? Based upon my research, Halloween doesn't even make the top ten for beer sales (Independence Day is number one) and is a distant number three for pizza (behind Superbowl and New Years Eve).
I have links in the post. Where are yours?
They are not from my neighborhood, but they come here because we will give them free stuff.
Their behavior is atrocious, and it's all about the "gibs" with them. I do not like being threatened by a 12-yr-old thug.
Then their are the mexi-moms that follow their children in their minivans at 1 mile per hour down the street, blocking traffic, because God forbid they actually get off the butts and walk.
Then there are the illegals who roll their babies in strollers up to my door and expect candy because, well, they have a baby. They can't even speak english but they are somehow already well versed in the "Gibsmedat" culture.
“I’m not fond of adult’s dressing up in costumes. I think it’s silly. Just my opinion.”
I suppose there are many things in society which are silly to some degree. Oversized guys chasing inflated pigskin around a field might be considered silly. The list is large to be sure. But I don’t think God would have us eliminate all of that type of “silly” out of our lives.
Pagan holidays, like Christmas, Easter, Halloween, etc. are a different matter. False worship is in the heart. Yet actions can have impact on others, no matter where your heart is. If you believe having your children “trick-or treat” is a stumbling block to other believers, then by all means, don’t do it.
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