Well, strictly speaking, such condemnation of other religions is scripturally justified by the Bible, so they’re really only following their beliefs.
( :rolleyes: )
Yeah, but they can condemn other religions more intelligently, instead of being lazy and chalking everything that isn’t worshipping the Christian God up to “Satan worship”. 
I heard that they conjure up the flesh of their undead god—who was somehow his own father—to consume each week.
It’s all too Lovecraftian to me. Do we have any Lions left? :eek:
Why can’t it be about the candy and the costumes? Ok so lack of a party/holiday wouldn’t stop me if I was damned and determined, but how often does a girl get to legitimately dress up as Little Bo Peep during the year?* Add to that the goodness of candy and I know my favourite holiday!
We had a neighbour a few years ago who insisted that halloween was evil. EEEEEEvil! He wouldn’t take his kid trick or treating, no decorations, nuttin. And if thats his gig, its groovy as long as he doesn’t step on my candy … um I mean halloween celebration. The previous year he’d been all about costumes, had the munchkin dressed up as a pumpkin (the adorable standard baby costume). Then he joined a new church and the minister told him how wrong it was. So he told everyone how wrong it was. I think after a bit the term bite me was thrown out … a few times, but then again he was the neighbor who bought an American Flag for my family shortly aften 9/11 and attempted to put it up for us, since obviously we were too busy to show our patritoism or something. :wally
- (And have their dad say: don’t you look darlin’, darlin’. Where’d you get the costume? Uhh some store dad … never mentioned it was from Lingerie, Ect.)
As I mentioned in a different thread recently, it’s as inevitable as the leaves changing color that a letter to the editor will appear in the local newspaper denouncing Halloween as a Satanic holiday, to which this devout Christian says, “Codswollop!”
Yes, it’s all about the candy and the costumes, and I have fond memories of leading a parade of kids dressed up as saints (actually, I suspect, their Halloween costumers) up the aisle of my old church in full SCA regalia, fencing dagger in my belt and epee or schlager in hand, singing I Sing a Song of the Saints of God on the Sunday closest to Halloween, aka All Hallows’ Even!
By the way, fushj00mang, I have a simple response for people who complain about Christmas being over-commercialized. I put on my best, wide-eyed, innocent look (it’s very effective, I swear!) and say, “Why do you let it?” Don’t get me wrong – I enjoy getting and giving presents as much as anyone, especially looking for fun stuff for my niece and nephew. I’m also one of these dreaded liberal Christians whose closest friends include homosexuals and Wiccans, but it would be unthinkable for me to separate the religious aspects from Christmas. There have been many years when I didn’t have a Christmas tree or couldn’t celebrate Christmas with my family; I can’t remember a year I didn’t go to church on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, or both (both have been when I’ve been in the choir). To me, Christmas is only as commercialized as one lets it become. “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” (Mark 6:21)
But here I go running Christmas into Halloween. Now, that may be a sin! :eek: Forget Christmas for now. Bring on the candy and costumes! Especially the candy corn!
CJ
(I love candy corn!)
If you come to Australia, it’s about kids getting dressed up as Batman and Fairies and knocking on doors up and down the street in search of lollies (candy).
It’s not exactly a widespread practice as yet, but more and more kids are getting into the festivity of our northern counterparts.
Little shits are just Capitalists in the Making really… 
I thought the Roman’s big beef was not that it was any old human sacrifice, but rather Roman human sacrifice.
One day you’ll all realize (too late) that the Jews were right. ;j
…and…
You should stop exposing yourself that way. You’ll get arrested. 
You all miss the point. Halloween is all about putting up your Christmas decorations so that you can nbe the first asshole on your block to have Santa on the roof of your house.
Halloween weekend is the end of the boating season. Not that we get out much during October, but the city mooring is only leased through November 1st. I believe in getting as much time out of a lease as is possible. We’re pulling the boat out on Saturday.
Halloween is a sad time…
Relax, I’m one of those “X-people” that lights your jack-o-lantern and I’ll be going to a costume party tomorrow dressed as the Witch King of Angmar. My pastor thinks it’s funny.
Confused yet? 
'Tis the season.
I had dinner out the other evening and left $6.66 as a tip.
Seems like an opportune time to link to this failure of a thread.
Halloween is not just about the candy and the costumes. It’s also about looking the macabre straight in the face and laughing at it (or getting the bejebus scared out of you). It’s all about the bones and cauldrons and shrouds and fangs. It’s all about fake blood and pointy hats and ghoulish faces carved into squash.
So, no more bobbing for kidneys in a big vat of blood at the party this weekend? How about the orgies? Are they out too?
Wow. :eek: Ignorance evidently is (religious) bliss. Ya know, instead of South Carolina, maybe the evangelists would consider Kansas as their new religious colony. Apologies in advance to those kind and sensible folks who call Kansas home, but it’s time we contained this epidemic.
And, if their religious piety can stop the tornados, then that’s just icing on the cake.
Sadly, it’s not just KS or SC --my fundie, home schooled neighbors also believe this shit. And my church turned its Halloween party (Sunday school) into a “fall festival”–whatever.
(I am glad to report that the “Fall Festival” died from lack of attendance about 4 years ago–imagine kids wanting to be spooked and dress up in weird stuff! They didn’t take to the celebrate the bounty stuff atall!)
I love (as I said in the other Halloween thread) the theater of Halloween. I am less enthused about the gore, but I have never enjoyed being yucked out as entertainment. To each his own: you go to the “Haunted” House and be grossed out, I’ll read a ghost story and shiver in my chair…
I was listening to Al Genie (sp?) the other day on NPR and he said that Evil must always have a moral aspect to it. Hurricanes are NOT evil, for example, because they are natural occurences (devastating though they are). I think he’s right.
Halloween is NOT evil or satanic–the choices one makes on Halloween (or any other day of the year) can be. That said, I really don’t believe in Satan per se–but evil? Oh, yes–it exists and its terrible. But IMO we all have to fight it–Christians have no monopoly on the struggle.
sorry, wandering OT…
The Bard is timeless!
Yeah, preach it! We’ve totally lost the spirit of Halloween. I remember when i was a kid it was all about Satan. Now, it’s just candy and decorations and dressing up as whoever is the star of the latest Hollywood blockbuster. So everyone, keep Satan in your hearts this Halloween. Remember, Our Dark Lord is the reason for the season!
I like that approach, vibrotronica. Next time a fundie complains, I’ll just look despondent and let out a big sigh and go “Oh, if only. It used to be all about Satan but it has become so commercialized any more, I don’t know if it’s even worth it to attend the Midnight Black Mass …”
That is perfect! I am going to do that to the next sanctimonious prig I come across!
laughing face
:eek: spooked Halloween face
:mad: Satan face (needs horns)
Kermit the frog face
;j Jon Sterwart costume
I, for one, welcome our Stan Overlord.
(There needs to be somekind of window sticker clingie thing that says, " I Worship Stan. and have a picture of some nerdy guy.)
Is it still cool to point and laugh at silly newagers appropriating holidays from dead religions and then mispronouncing them? I seem to spend most of the Halloween season suppressing the urge to punch people who pronounce “Samhain” with an m.