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10/22/2007
9:01:00 am EDT
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Halloween Noose Use Sparks Disagreement
Author: Neal McNamara Source: Anderson Herald Bulletin (IN)
Title: HALLOWEEN NOOSE USE SPARKS DISAGREEMENT
The front lawn of Central Avenue resident Tamra Clark’s home is filled with bones, eyeballs and corpses. When you walk up to her door, you feel like someone is about to suck your blood. And that’s just how she wants you to feel.
Even though she’s filled every inch of her yard with scary Halloween fun, Clark says there’s a difference between scary and offensive.
“On Halloween night, we have people stand in the bushes ... just so the kids can have a really fun time,” said Clark. “Halloween, it’s really for the kids.”
But a string of incidents in our area and across the country have exposed disagreement about whether certain Halloween decorations are offensive. At least four recent incidents, including one in Anderson and one in Muncie, involved nooses or a hanging effigy used as Halloween decor.
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| This Is Not New | Oct 23rd. at 10:54:43 am EDT
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stalkingwolf (Bullhead City, Arizona) - Email Me
Living in AZ I see this condition every day. Retirees from Ca move to this state by the herds and shortly there after try to make this state just like where they left.
So when are these people going to start showing up at Westboro baptist events demanding that they remove nooses and hanging effigies of soldiers and bush? When are they going to do something that does not involve their wounded ego and getting headlines?
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| Once A Fundamentalist, Always A Fundamentalist | Oct 23rd. at 9:16:36 am EDT
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Finn (San Marcos, Texas) - Email Me
I didn't find my way to Paganism. I was raised one. This gives me a rather unique perspective on all those who come under the umbrella from other faiths. Most of the United States is Christian and thus most of the people converting to any of the thousands of Pagan paths were Christian. Some of them even come from the extreme fringe, the Fundamentalists or Evangelicals.
I have taken note of a rather disturbing pattern. Why is it convert Pagans, who claim to embrace our more tolerant ways, always end up being the most militant, angry types? Is it because they aren't really Pagan because they care about what we believe or practice? Is it beause they are simply mad at their old faith? Did they come to us because they assumed like day and night, black and white that Pagans are the opposite and thus the enemy of their enemy?
Well, I think they need a wake up call. Paganism isn't about being the opposite of Christianity. It has nothing to do with Christianity. It doesn't care about Christianity. The countless different faiths that are found under the Pagan umbrella stand for something in and of themselves. They are not part of some dualist paradigm, nor should go to them bringing your "us verus them" mentality. Why on Earth would you leave one faith, complaining endlessly about how intolerant, evil, oppressive, rude, and so on ad nauseam and then proceed to behave exactly as you describe in your new one? Could it be that there is nothing wrong with Christianity (or any faith) and that in fact there are just DEFECTIVE people?
There is a rather disturbing trend here in the nest. The rules clearly indicate you are not to address or target other speakers directly. You are supposed to address the articles and the ideas it presents. You can, to some degree address the same notions and such others bring up, but there is a line which isn't supposed to be crossed. Just the same, there has emerged a group of militant, angry types that leap out to attack other posters. It seems that anyone that doesn't agree with them is against them. It seems if you aren't on the Christian-bashing bus you are worthy of scorn, ridicule, and the same hate reserved for those naughty Christians. Is this how low we have fallen as a group? I have been accused, many times in fact, of being a Christian myself... a wolf-in-sheep's-clothing here to sow discontent. Hrm. Where have I seen/heard this kind of "you are either with us or against us attitude" before?
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| This Is Insane. | Oct 22nd. at 7:58:19 pm EDT
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Rev. Heidi Andrews (Salisbury, Maryland) - Email Me
The more I hear about this, the more I swear the IQ of the average person is slowly declining. Yes, people used to be hung. Big people, little people, white people, black people, Christian people, Muslim people.....PEOPLE OF ALL KINDS. Whoop-de-doo. I know there are states that still have hanging as a legal method of execution.
What's next? I've seen houses done up with fake guillotines complete with bloody, headless corpses. Where are the people of French descent that may have lost an ancestor or 2 to the blade to protest this?
Ridiculous.
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| It Would Seem To Me... | Oct 22nd. at 1:33:05 pm EDT
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Mysteries Child (Garfield, Arkansas) - Email Me
...that something's status as a 'symbol of racism' or et cetera is not in the thing itself, but in the intent with which it was placed.
A noose is a method of killing, and Halloween is, for quite a few of us, a time for playing around with death in all its forms and ways. 'Whistling past the graveyard,' if you will forgive the rather lame pun.
We used to hang white sheets from nooses...
...a white sheet being the easiest way to make a ghost, and a rope below the head being the easiest way to hang it.
Gee, and here I didn't even know we were Klansmen.
Or were we symbolically lynching the KKK??
Since we cannot know our neighbors' intentions, we have fallen to assuming them...
...and, it seems, to fairly consistently assuming the worst.
Now that, in so many ways, is scary.
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