Posted on 10/17/2014 4:16:22 AM PDT by lifeofgrace
Glad I don’t know you.
I’m all for kid treat or treating. I don’t believe any of the holidays you listed are pagan - no matter their origin. I can’t live in a cultural vacuum. I need to know that the great western traditions reach back into an ancient past and will (I hope) continue into the distant future.
Halloween is based on the Catholic All Hallows’ Eve. We always went to church in the evening and lit candles for the dead. I was once lucky enough to do this at a very old All Hallows’ Church in London.
I’d guess that you’d be considered persona non grata in Sleepy Hollow this time of year...
” I don’t believe any of the holidays you listed are pagan - no matter their origin. I can’t live in a cultural vacuum. I need to know that the great western traditions reach back into an ancient past and will (I hope) continue into the distant future.”
I am not really sure what you are saying. “no matter their origin” speaks of their ancient past, yet you indicate you “need to know” their ancient past. In the same small statement it seems you say the origins both don’t matter and you need to know them.
Maybe I am off base but this statement translates to me as. “I don’t care if the origins of holidays are pagan or not, many Christians have been observing them for years and I hope they will for many more.”
If that is how you feel, that is up to you. If you claim to be a Christian you might want to consider what God thinks though.
I believe that many Christian symbols came out of very ancient rituals and symbols that were adapted by the Faith. I don’t see anything wrong with this.
I hate to break it to you, but this is the kind of drivel that makes conservatives sound like lunatics. Jon Stewart thanks you for the source material.
I think this is a case of an author trying to create a new issue to distinguish himself in some way. Liberals do it all the time. Nothing new in that.
I agree with you about candy. Horrible stuff. We let our kid play the Halloween game but then take away the candy, dole it out to him slowly and throw most of it away.
So All Hallows Eve is not Catholic?
Trying to figure out where you got this erroneous information.
Just one person’s blog. He doesn’t even mention his religion; he just brags about himself.
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I have the same crap in my neighborhood; because I live across a river from the Newark NJ Welfare Hatchery, the gibsmedats come over to trick-or-treat. I’m glad the kids get a chance to enjoy Halloween as we did when we were kids, but some of the baby-mamas are obnoxious. They’ll be wearing plain clothing, but if they like what the kids come back with they’ll come up the steps themselves with outstretched palms. When we used to take our children trick-or-treating (they go on their own now), we used to leave a large big bowl with a sign (”Please take one”); without fail, when we’d return a short time later (little legs don;t last long) it would be empty. One year it even had empty wrappers; someone had sat there eating the candy!
Hopefully the cold today will keep some home...I don’t want to stop participating, but by 9:00 pm I’m disgusted.
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