Posted on 10/29/2009 8:15:56 PM PDT by tlb
. TV preacher Pat Robertson’s Web site has just issued a bulletin warning Americans of the real threat we face this season: Demons may be lurking in our Halloween candy.
In a column on the Christian Broadcasting Network’s Web site, writer Kimberly Daniels asserts that “demons” sneak into bags of Halloween candy at grocery stores.
“[M]ost of the candy sold during this season has been dedicated and prayed over by witches,” Daniels wrote. “I do not buy candy during the Halloween season. Curses are sent through the tricks and treats of the innocent whether they get it by going door to door or by purchasing it from the local grocery store. The demons cannot tell the difference.”
The Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, urged Robertson and Daniels to lighten up.
“I’ve heard of the devil being in the details, but to think he’s lurking inside a Snickers bar is a little too much,” Lynn quipped. “Pat Robertson has always peddled some scary stuff, but this is over the top.”
Daniels asserts that far from being harmless fun, Halloween is a veritable doorway to hell, full of literal monsters.
“Halloween is much more than a holiday filled with fun and tricks or treats,” she wrote. “It is a time for the gathering of evil that masquerades behind the fictitious characters of Dracula, werewolves, mummies and witches on brooms. The truth is that these demons that have been presented as scary cartoons actually exist. I have prayed for witches who are addicted to drinking blood and howling at the moon.”
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That’s not even remotely close to what happens at actual sabbats/esbats.
Hollywood fantasy is one thing; “reality” [if you can call it that] is a whole other.
My first teacher was a nurse. And she hated cats. lol
This is the kind of crap that gives Christians the mocking they get every day.
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Demons reside not in candy, but in raw broccoli and Burger King fries. I can prove my assertion. The evil manifests itself about 3 hours after consumption.
I feel the same way about Halloween bashers as I do about Easter, Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, etc....bashers—if you don’t want to celebrate the holiday, don’t.
But leave the rest of us alone!!!
Don’t forget White Castle burgers.
For the record, the Israelis know how to make GOOD chocolate.
If one truly had "eyes to see", I wonder what one would see sitting on the shoulders of 0bama, Pelousy, Reid, et al., gibbering in their ears?
Ah. An evil I’ve not yet faced. Or consumed. :-)
and so ...that tells you what exactly?
Spiritual demons unleashed by the one and manmade monsters devised by literature, folklore and Hollywood-Madison ave are hardly the same thing...trust me.
which can be found "on sale" in NoVa grocery stores right after Passover.
You may not be aware of that.
Yes, I'm aware of the calendar. I'm also aware that it was discovered in fragments and the reconstuctions and interpretations of it are highly contested and quite speculative.
BTW, I own books on this subject that you couldn't afford to buy.
I don't doubt that you own books on this subject that I wouldn't bother reading were they given to me. I suspect that instead of archeological reports/monographs you have warmed-over rehashes of 19th century diffusionist and mystical "scholarship."
What I own are dry, dusty, tedious archaeological/anthropological tomes that trace the migrations of the proto-Celtic/IE peoples from their origins to the “modern” Celts.
Well, no doubt your booksellers are quite happy, but I fail to see how the mere ownership of some books translates into your addressing the issue at hand. The books on your shelf are silent. Do you have an argument to back up your blunt assertion that "Halloween is the Celtic “New Year’s Eve” celebration. Nothing more, nothing less," or not?
Hutton's “Pagan Religions of the British Isles” was quaint but I question his motives.
Hutton's discussion of "Samhain" in PRBI was interesting, but his demolition of the Samhain-Halloween connection (and much more) in his _Stations of the Sun_ is more complete and more convincing.
Your "debunk Hutton" link leads to a hilariously bad feminist site that promotes articles on "The Secret History of Witches" and "Rebel Shamans." LOL! I'll trust Hutton over the ramblings of Max Dashu any day. If that's your idea of good scholarship, then I can see why you post silly things like "Halloween is the Celtic “New Year’s Eve” celebration. Nothing more, nothing less."
Go read the CARMINA GADELICA instead. It's contemporaneous.
Contemporaneous with what period of Celtic history?
Why should I bother to read a book on Scottish folklore? Can you give a reason?
I suggest you read Hutton's _The Stations of the Sun_, specifically Chapters 35-37. Reason: it demolishes the idea that there was a Pan-Celtic Samhain/New Year's Eve Celebration, and also knocks down your assertion about the Halloween/Samhain connection.
Thanks - nice to know if I’m ever in the area.
You are missing a life-experience.
Be sure to get them from a restaurant - the frozen White Castles are but a pale shadow of the real thing. Accompanying them with a chocolate shake is traditional.
Then she can send me all her Snickers and Peanut M&Ms.
Ok, I suppose they are eating babies and sacrificing virgins.
“Out! Out you demons of obesity!”
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