[Lexinom]

Ping, for your leisurely consumption.

[RPTMS]

In the XVI Century, the common man was illiterate.

[muir_redwoods]

"Where Did Halloween Come From?"

I believe it was a joint effort between Hershey's, Nestles' and M&M Mars.

[RockAgainsttheLeft04]

Looks like another "Aww! Not this s**t again!" thread.

Open letter to the holy rollers on FR and in America:
I don't bother you when you're doing your little "alternative" thing at the local church, so please don't interfere with my fun and don't try to feed this ridiculous cornpone crap to my very young siblings or their little friends (who happen to think dressing up as little Ghosts or the 'Scream' killer to go trick-or-treating on Halloween is absolutely great).

That nasty business aside, I wish you all a Happy Halloween!

[RPTMS]

Christianity adapted a lot of things from the pagan world during the early centuries. Christmas (Christ's Mass) replaced several pagan mid-winter celebrations. Even wedding rings were used by the pagans. I don't mind kids trick-or-treating. I get annoyed when grown men and women dress up in goofy costumes and put up garish decorations.

[RPTMS]

So if the Bible is the only way you can learn what you need to know to be saved, does that mean that anyone who can't read will end up in Hell?

[Ciexyz]

I enjoyed the Martin Luther tie-in to Halloween.

[Uri’el-2012]

In 325 AD the roman church changed scripturally based Passover celebration of the Christ's offering of Himself as the Lamb of G-d to the Babylonian based celebration of Ishtar calling it Easter. So the roman church introduced Paganism



His willing bondslave

chuck

[BJungNan]

In our neighborhood, it is coming from the house behind us that set up the most elaborate hauted house I have ever seen. At one end of his pool is a dragon that breaths fire - literally 20 feet across the pool.

I opened the back door to listen. Whoooshf it goes when he fires it off followed by screams from the kids.

Only draw back is we will get 500 trick or treaters to the house tonight - that is how many pieces of candy I gave out last year. This year I stop at 300 pieces then it is lights out.

Oh, and each little kiddie is getting a small piece of paper slipped into their trick or treat back. It looks like this:

That is Kerry walking on the flag in case you had not seen that picture before.

[bornacatholic]

Sounds to me like them no good Catholics were pretty shady. What did Martin Luther have to say about all of this Halloween stuff?