[QUOTE=Baker]
And the local Christian couple was happy to pass out candy, along with the tracts that, well, you’ll have to read to find out what happens, won’t you?
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Last Halloween, a woman about thirty years old and her elderly mother came up to my candy bowl. (Neither in costume.) I reached in to pluck out a couple of the mini-candybars I was doling out, but my assistance was unnecessary. The women grabbed big handfuls of the candy. So surprised at this bold rudeness was I that I numbly took the pamphlet the younger of the two handed me before walking away with nary a “thank you.”
It was a poorly-Xeroxed rant about the evils of Halloween and how everyone who participated was going to hell. I wanted to holler after them that they didn’t seem to have a problem gobbling the devil’s candy.
[QUOTE=Ponder Stibbons]
So after 400 years Yahweh finally got off his fat ass and actually did something.
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Wow, even in the United States it only took us 240 years. The USA – 40 percent faster than God!
[QUOTE=Mangetout]
His cited evidence is pretty pathetic though; consisting of ‘some archaeologists dug up a couple of idols with crescent moons on them, thus proving…[whatever inane point he is pushing]’
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Oh yes, and he cites Ramadan’s beginning with a crescent moon as evidence that Allah is a moon god. He seems to be unaware that:
All months in the Islamic calendar start with a crescent moon
So do all months in the Jewish calendar
If you’re going to have months based on the cycle of the moon, which most cultures do or did, it’s a rather obvious way to do it.