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10/25/2008
9:16:42 am EDT
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Cleric 'Overwhelmed' At Support For Halloween Stance
Author: Belfast Newsletter Source: Belfast Newsletter (UK)
Title: CLERIC 'OVERWHELMED' AT SUPPORT FOR HALLOWEEN STANCE
A Portadown clergyman says he has been overwhelmed with support for his church's opposition to Halloween outfits for children.
The select vestry of Seagoe Parish Church recently wrote to its youth organisations asking them not to focus on Halloween in any events they are organising at this time of the year.
But several parents were angered and complained.
"There are many and much bigger issues for a church to deal with than ducking for apples and discussing spiders," said one female parishioner whose children attend the church but who did not want to be named.
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| Dear God!!! | Oct 26th. at 6:58:07 pm EDT
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Mysteries Child (Garfield, Arkansas) - Email Me
No children in costume!!! That's... that's... that's *pagan*!!!!
Better we should have a good Christian Harvest Festival. Yes. Harvest Festival. Christian. Yes.
Everybody whose religion cannot in one way or another be linked to some violent and bloody act of atrocity, please paint yourself purple, stand on your head, and flap your arms erratically while singing "The Armadillo Song."
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| Spiritual Connections... | Oct 26th. at 2:21:36 pm EDT
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Sela (Happyplace, New York) - Email Me
If you can burn the books and get rid of the costumes and destroy any other reference to the holiday people will by default become christian???
You can try to block it out of the mind honey but you can't block it out of the soul.
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| Did Anyone Ever Mention To This Man... | Oct 26th. at 3:43:59 am EDT
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Shadowbear (Hillsboro, Oregon) - Email Me
,,,that the folks that burned the wicker man - with or without human sacrifice within - have all been dead for a great number of years? Does he want to take responsibility for the Inquisition? After all it was a christian happening. If modern pagans are to be held personally responsible for every sacrifice made by those who lived centuries ago then modern christians should be held responsible for the acts of their predicessors as well.
Nowdays you get prosecuted for murder if you sacrifice humans - but there are still places that nail humans to crosses at easter - and guess what, they don't die even after hanging all day nailed to that cross. They often die of infection later - in the Phillipines the public health people have to put out reminder bulletins to sterilize those nails before you pound them into people's hands. Yuck.
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| The Things You Learn From Badly Written Articles | Oct 25th. at 8:05:47 pm EDT
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Stormsinger (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) - Email Me
Wow! Pre-Christian witchcraft covens (tm) burned wicker men full of human sacrifices! Y'don't say! And I don't suppose anybody else ever did anything so nasty (ever hear about some of the Roman emperors who found mere crucifixion "too tame?") . Frankly, I am pretty darn sure there were no such things as Pre-Christian witchcraft covens (tm) , but don't let that stop you. I've only been a student of religion, history and anthropology for about 40 years; what do I know?
And of course, there is an unbroken, apostolic succession from Pre-Christian witchcraft covens (tm) to modern day Wicca, Druidry and NeoPaganism???
Thought so.
I'm so warmed by the thought that Ulster is so free of racism, poverty, violence, and other such purely mortal ills that its pastors have time to go after little kids dressing up as witches and skeletons.
Clue for you, Rev: it is by acknowledging and yes, making light of our fears that we overcome them. By making such a big deal about them, haven't you just made them a bigger deal in the minds of everyone who follows your lead? Scarier. Darker. More real. What can you say about a fear too big to be faced, even on a five year old at a party?
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| Priorities?? | Oct 25th. at 1:18:02 pm EDT
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Dziude (Aberdeen, Scotland) - Email Me - Web
The capacity of Ulster clergy to zoom in on the trivial instead of more important issues never ceases to amaze me. Should they not be more concerned with reaching out into the communites, tor example to combat the stereotypes and rascism etc that are all to prevalent, or a whole list of other serious issues, than alienating people with such silliness?
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| Leaving Me Underwhelmed At This Article... | Oct 25th. at 12:31:19 pm EDT
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bigcat (peoria, Illinois) - Email Me
What a load of Rot! (sigh) Expect more of this garbage until Halloween is over.
Oh well, sheep should always be indoors under the bed after dark on Halloween night anyway-- in case some ectoplasmic spook develops a craving for mutton.
What they are b**ching about is that it is Pagan---and therefore "satanic".
And yes, they do have much larger issues to deal with besides apples and spiders, but apparently, those are too difficult so they just concentrate on the absurd instead.
Which is why this appears just as ridiculous.
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| ... | Oct 25th. at 10:24:30 am EDT
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Draken (Bronx, New York) - Email Me - Web
"People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe its true, or because they are afraid it might be true." - Zedd Zorander, Terry Goodkind's "Wizard's First Rule"
'Nuff said.
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