Go away and leave Halloween alone. Fuck off and take your lame-ass harvest party with you.
Seconded. Halloween should be about candy, costumes, trick or treating at NIGHT, pranks, and getting the bejeezus scared out of you by the neighbors.
The irony in this thread is just fantastic.
I say we let the Christians reclaim Halloween. Maybe we’ll get another day off from work every year.
When my fellow Christians talk about having a Christian alternative for Halloween, I point out that Halloween WAS the Christian alternative to Samhain.
Sure, but I bet it wasn’t anything like the modern presentation of Halloween.
Well, Easter date is closely related to Pesaj/Passover.
Soon we’ll have “reclaiming bacon for Jews and Muslims.”
It’s clear you have some gem of wisdom that you are dying to share, but good manners are preventing you from doing so without an invite.
So, please, enlighten all of us.
And then there’s the upcoming election.
There’s no particular connection between the two posts you quoted.
If you say so.
Heck, I want to reclaim Bonfire Night from Halloween.
We Brits used to have a grand time burning effigies of Catholics*, now we’re stuck with an increasingly commercialised and americanised festival of ghosts ‘n’ ghouls ‘n’ other things that go bump in the night.
Except my friend Emily… she went to the same school as Guido Fawkes (although several hundred years later), and as their headmaster once told them, “Here at St Peters we do *not *burn our former pupils.”
Bonfires for Hallowe’en are common here, fireworks too.
I did.
Did ya now?
Please bust a hot, truthy load all over my ignorance: What’s ironic about the thread?
And with it being less than a week before the election here in the U.S., all we have to do is turn on the TV to get “gunpowder, treason, and plot”!
IIRC, the -een (eve) part is a remnant stemming from Celtic days being figured dusk-to-dusk (like Jewish days), rather than from midnight. So from dusk on Oct 31 until midnight (and the start of All Saints / All Hallows on the 1st of Nov) there is a bit of “original” Samhain left.
Aside: a local church here holds an annual dress-up “Light Party” for the kids in place of Halloween, which gets a big :rolleyes: from me, but the kids like getting to dress up. Last year my son went dressed as **Pit **akaKid Icarus, and the churchy types thought he was dressed as an angel… so that was nice… 
I for one am going to reclaim Halloween for Jesus by going to a costume party as a piece of toast imprinted with an image of JHC.
I will name my costume Wonder of Wonders.
Are you kidding?
EVERY day is a christian HOLY DAY, because each day is one of Jesus’s snowflakes. Someday someone will do some REALLY christian thing on this date, and they need to get their dibs in now.