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10/27/2007
9:01:53 am EDT
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Taking The History Of Halloween To Heart
Author: Karen Smith, Herald-Leader Source: Kentucky.com
Title: TAKING THE HISTORY OF HALLOWEEN TO HEART
This year, I wondered whether Halloween would be a trick or a treat for me and my children. When they were younger, it was, as far as I was concerned, a treat.
I thought it was great fun to get them dressed up in cute costumes and transform them into pint-size Elvises, pirates, princesses or genies.
We would scour the neighborhood for an hour or so and fill up our plastic pumpkins with delicious candy.
When we returned home, I would, of course, confiscate "potentially tainted" chocolates. Then, I would sacrifice by eating the chocolates, saving the kids from a horrible fate.
The evening always seemed so harmless. But was it?
Lately I have pondered this question, now that my children are older and their costume choices have gone from cute to "evil" -- zombies and dead cheerleaders.
It gives me the creeps.
But that isn't the only reason I have started questioning the holiday that has strong roots in paganism.
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| I Think This Woman Might Be Brainwashed. | Oct 28th. at 4:20:55 am EDT
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Moonlight Wolf (Bradford, England) - Email Me
She only started this whole 'get the kids out of Halloween' when she went to that chuuch and heard a sermon about Satan's forces and then assumed that anything that is not Christian is evil. There's that binary opposition thing again that oversimplifies things and lays waste to the mind.
Oh well, at least her kids had the sense to set her straight.
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| At Least | Oct 28th. at 2:40:06 am EDT
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Lady Arrian (Cincinnati, Ohio) - Email Me
her kids have some brains.
I was half tempted to email her and ask her if she was also going to quit celebrating Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter since they are all also based on earlier Pagan beliefs .
Merry Part,
Arrian
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| Awww... | Oct 27th. at 6:11:04 pm EDT
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Badger Breaking Ground (Denton, Texas) - Email Me
The article worked out ok in the end.
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| ... | Oct 27th. at 4:51:05 pm EDT
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Draken (Bronx, New York) - Email Me - Web
An ill-informed piece of s**t from an ill-informed piece of s**t fundie in the Deep South. Bringing the buy-bull into this aptly-misnamed "faith and values" article killed the bimbo's credibility right off the bat.
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| ... | Oct 27th. at 2:24:09 pm EDT
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Azuris-Raen (Austin, Texas) - Email Me
I'm not going to touch this one, because I know I have nothing nice to say. All i'm going to say is that , "Oh!... theres another fundy that walked out of the closet."
Brighest Blessings and May the Light Protect Thee! ^_^
Dax-raen
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