Posted on 10/07/2005 10:14:25 AM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance
Re-focus Halloween!
If your school insists on having some kind of Halloween celebration, recommend that they steer away from the ghoulish and occult and, instead, focus on the event as a fall festival. ...
"When you turn evil into a game, it trivializes it and numbs children to its darkness."
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You could make some JackChick-O-Lanterns.
"'All Hallows Eve' used to be back in the get-down and party days of the Druids."
Samhain..nasty stuff.
Right and at my kids' school they have a "Thankful Party" in November.
Please. As if folks hostile to Christianity would stop feeling Christianity is bad and prudish.
I thought the people who say they are Christians but don't live like the Bible says to live were the ones giving Christianity a bad name.
"Why not recognize it for waht it is/was? All Hallows (Saints) Eve? The night before All Saints' Day, originally a Catholic holy day? Nothing evil in that.............."
How about Samhain?
Is this satire or unintentional silliness?
Oh for Christ's sake, give it a break! Halloween is nothing more than a harmless ancient pagan celebration of the Druid New Year. Let the kids have their fun. You can thump them on the head with a Bible the following Sunday.
Bring back Samhain.
My thoughts exactly. I would wager that "Blurblogger" is known by those close to him/her as "The Enemy of Fun".
Look, Halloween is fun. It's this sort of Jack Chick-ian view that gives Christianity a bad, prudish name.
you think changing halloween to "fall-festival" is bad? a church i went to years ago made itself a "hallelujah" night to counter halloween. which was fine, until it got out of hand. a couple years ago they did a re-enactment of the columbine shootings to show the "evil" in the world today.
made the already bad reputation the church has, even worse.
"Look, Halloween is fun"
I trick-or-treated myself as a kid.
That doesn't change the fact that it honors witchcraft etc.
I'm amazed that so many are so blind.
Are you part of the light, or part of the darkness?
Ok..I had no clue who or what a Jack Chick was until a few minutes after you posted that.
And remember! It's not Christmas anymore, its the "Holiday Season".And kids don't have a Christmas Break from school anymore. They have a Holiday Break. And Easter Break has morphed into Spring Break.
All this Politically Correct BS is rapidly ruining our country!
Was it a "Hell House"?
http://www.hellhousemovie.com/hellhouse/index.html
Samhain never left. In the rural places Samhain was corrupted into saying 'What the Sam Hill' instead of 'what the Devil'. I still hear it used occassionaly.
I find the whole idea a load of BS.
Halloween is Halloween, Christmas is Christmas and Easter is Easter.
Religious wackos come in all religions.
I guess that's been a trend that developed over the past several years. I understand Halloween decorations aren't that awfully far behind Christmas, dollarwise.
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