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10/27/2007
8:49:12 am EDT
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How Do You Reconcile Your Faith And Halloween?
Author: Allison Kennedy Source: Ledger-Enquirer.com (GA)
Title: HOW DO YOU RECONCILE YOUR FAITH AND HALLOWEEN?
Tonya and Karl Douglass have so far managed to avoid major conflict when they keep their 7-year-old daughter Temple away from Halloween celebrations. Members of Fourth Street Baptist Church, the Douglasses have explained to Temple that Halloween has "connections to witchcraft," Tonya said, and Temple therefore doesn't trick-or-treat or dress up in a costume.
They did, however, attend Temple's Fall Festival at Clubview Elementary School about a week ago. Tonya Douglass said she was pleased with the event, and that she saw only one child wearing a costume. She said she's not against kids dressing up but in her family, Temple doesn't.
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| Well... | Oct 28th. at 4:48:40 am EDT
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Moonlight Wolf (Bradford, England) - Email Me
...they don't have to celebrate Halloween if they don't want to. I draw the line however when they say that
1) Halloween is Satanic because it comes from the Pagan festival of Samhain.
The Celts did not worship the devil, and Pagans do not. The Catholic Church simply gave the devil horns in order to get people into the churches. Many churches say that the devil is half man and half goat. This isn't in the Bible. (The devil is actually symbolised by a snake.)
2) No one should celebrate Halloween because of its Pagan connection.
If you don't want to celebrate Halloween and try to keep your kids from it, fine. However you don't have a right to say that no one else can do it just because of your beliefs. Whether or not to celebrate Halloween does not extend beyond your own front door.
I live in a strong Catholic area where most of the locals go to Church every Sunday. Some do celebrate Halloween with their kids, some don't but they don't have screaming big arguments or try to make each other go one way or the other.
I went to a Catholic college and they had no problem with Halloween or Paganism. In fact they had Halloween decorations around the college. Pumpkins and cartoon witches in the reception and the canteen, B movie monsters in the bar. (Although it took them over a year to get the werewolf back down from among the speakers in the bar. That still makes me laugh.)
Still if a family objects to celebrating Halloween then they don't have to celebrate it. Just as long as they keep their decision in their own house.
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| Inalieanable Rights | Oct 27th. at 8:51:26 pm EDT
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Fraoch (Shelby, North Carolina) - Email Me
Well, here's the deal in a roundabout way. We've got the whole "pursuit of happiness" thing going on in this country. The outrageous members of Christianity would love and do try to remove ours. However, keep in mind that their pursuit of happiness is via a clogged colon. So, we're not just even steven. We come out ahead.
Vive Halloween! ...And have a very sacred and mystical Samhain.
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| Reconcile What? My Faith Is Halloween! | Oct 27th. at 4:15:24 pm EDT
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bigcat (peoria, Illinois) - Email Me
Xtians long wish to believe that the Dark Side doesn't exist, except as a tangible outside force they blithely relegate to "evil".
Evil is what others do, never themselves. Evil is disagreement. A failure to accept their religion as just and holy because They believe it is.
They want to expunge the darkness in their lives and pretend that death and dissolution happens to others.
That is why death and dying are given such euphemisms and funerals are usually sanitized as much as possible and why the funerary business makes such good money in making the cadaver look as lifelike as possible. And why the caricatures of witches ghosts and skeletons are often so horrifying--and considered "evil".
What they find so disquieting is a day relegated to the very things they abhor and so they seek to sanitize it if they cannot abolish it.
It has been their way since the beginning,to take over and try to change what they cannot control-or erase.
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| Bah | Oct 27th. at 1:50:39 pm EDT
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Ravenowl (Amboy, Oklahoma) - Email Me
Why is it only this holiday? I mean name another, any other, and bam its Pagan in nature anyhows. They even joke about the bunny rabits and eggs of Easter. Why cant they joke about this one as well? I know Pagans in general just do both anyhows. Especially those of us that have kids. Its just a marketing device anymore, but its also really fun. Yule logs, evergreen trees, the three kings, renewed hope, heck even the birth of christ ( connected as well) has been connected to Paganism. You would think that Halloween would be sacred to them as well.
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| Flirting With The Dark Side | Oct 27th. at 12:45:29 pm EDT
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Sphinxring (Olympia, Washington) - Email Me
Halloween is full of symbols of our Dark Side. Most Christians, one way or another, believe the Dark Side is somehow separate from themselves. It's still in their deeper psyche, and they have to deal with their darker "sinful" side. So Halloween is a way to acknowlege that the dark side is there, even in a flitatious and "safe" way.
Of course good little "sheep" wouldn't do such things. Acting naughty is very attractive to their kids who have a rebellious thought now and then. Wearing masks and experimenting with thinking about themselves, well it's freedom! It might be contagious!!!! This of course is proof of a troublemaker, and SATAN is the archtypical toublemaker, so proof positive???
Kind of pathetic now that I think about it.
Boo
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| Harumph! Hum Bug! | Oct 27th. at 12:39:39 pm EDT
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Richard Brownbear (North Wilkesboro, North Carolina) - Email Me
The churches in this area hold "Hallelujah" night on Halloween.
Most of them don't allow costumes, and it's all Christian based themes....no talk of the dark and scary. They still get games and candy, but in a "sanitized" way.
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| *blushes* | Oct 27th. at 12:19:39 pm EDT
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Ixacacau (Moore, Oklahoma) - Email Me
Silly me. I thought this would be an article about how Pagans reconcile their faith with the commercial side of Halloween. Oh, well...
Most of the churches in my town reconcile by putting on one of those gruesome "Hell House" things. The only people who go to those things are the church members. Just goes to show that everybody likes a good scare every now and then.
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