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 Religious Right Watch: Happy Halloween, Heathens! Author: Andy Birkey Source: The Minnesota Independent Title: RELIGIOUS RIGHT WATCH: HAPPY HALLOWEEN, HEATHENS! The religious right has long railed against Halloween, condemning its pagan roots and claiming it promotes witchcraft and the occult. This year some groups are embracing the day as a time to reach kids with a pro-life and Christian message, while others use the day to burn “wicked” books and CDs. And one writer for Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network warns parents that witches curse Halloween candy. “[M]ost of the candy sold during this season has been dedicated and prayed over by witches,” wrote CBN’s Kimberly Daniels. “I do not buy candy during the Halloween season. Curses are sent through the tricks and treats of the innocent whether they get it by going door to door or by purchasing it from the local grocery store. The demons cannot tell the difference.” Americans United for the Separation of Church and State took the opportunity to have a little fun at Robertson’s expense. “I’ve heard of the devil being in the details, but to think he’s lurking inside a Snickers bar is a little too much,” said the Rev. Barry Lynn of Americans United. “Pat Robertson has always peddled some scary stuff, but this is over the top.” Additional Article Link: [Click HERE] | |
| Community Thoughts: There are 19 comments posted | Reverse Sort |
| Her Article | Nov 1st. at 8:18:01 pm EST |
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foreverknightfan (Dardanelle, Arkansas) - Email Me - Web You can find the full text of this person's article that the CBN web site deleted at this web address in Charisma online: [Web LINK] You can also find the test without the author picture at my blog site. I C&Ped the article because there is so much in it that should be pointed out by people better qualified to do so than me. Mrs. Kimberly Daniels seems to be the type who considers herself a prophet as well. She seems to have taken from the john Todd/Jack Chick garbage and added a few things here and there. The Charisma web site, to their credit, also has a Christian writer advocating celebrating Halloween. It is good for intellectual freedom that they decided to copy the text CBN deleted. Another Wren article here about the Roman Catholic Church against Halloween in Spain seems odd as people in Mexico have their Day of the Dead observance, which includes candy skulls holding picnics near the graves of dead loved ones are all by people who are traditionally Catholic. But some folks are just plain party poopers. |
| But... | Nov 1st. at 4:08:09 pm EST |
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Aritimi Morgana (RotterdamJct/Schdy/Scotia, New York) - Email Me what if you're eating half the candy yourself, besides handing it out to the kids? I mean, I put a fairly good dent in the amount of candy waiting to be given out and I haven't suffered any ill effects.....Oh, wait, I'm a witch! Does that mean I have a built-in immunity to curses? |
| *wink* | Nov 1st. at 11:50:23 am EST |
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Ixacacau (Moore, Oklahoma) - Email Me Yeah, I cursed every piece of candy that I handed out this year and when Ostara rolls around, I plan to sacrifice an entire flock of Peeps to the Easter Bunny. |
| CURSES SENT THROUGH CANDY???? | Nov 1st. at 4:22:40 am EST |
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Whitewolf (Schenectady, New York) - Email Me I think this person needs to step away from the Cool-aid! **sheesh** Love to all |
| Shows How Much She Knows... | Oct 31st. at 10:33:57 pm EDT |
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Alterax (Sherwood, Arkansas) - Email Me If she had any sense about her whatsoever, she would see through the ruse completely. Halloween is way too obvious and we are way too crafty to be thwarted so easily. Actually, real witches are cursing marshmallow bunnies and chicks this time of year that will be passed out around Easter. I actually managed to trap a hellhound in one of those hollow chocolate bunnies, so it should be a hoot and a holler when that thing gets let out. Now I'll go back to doing normal things, like making caramel-covered onions for the neighbors' kids... |
| Are You Kidding Me? | Oct 31st. at 5:54:10 pm EDT |
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Blue Stag (New York, New York) - Email Me Unfortunately, the most vocal fundamentalists are always the most poorly informed and/or least educated. |
| Still Up | Oct 31st. at 5:52:03 pm EDT |
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Ananta Androscoggin (Greene, Maine) - Email Me The article is still up on the CHARISMA magazine website. When I looked there were 15 long pages of comments, and although there were a few from associated nutjobs confirming that every word of the article is "gods honest truth" or some other prevarication, most of the commenters, Pagan, Christian, and of other kinds, were decidedly against the continued publishing of anything from this insane-asylum escapee. |
| Fundies Are Weird | Oct 31st. at 2:33:05 pm EDT |
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Moonlight Wolf (Bradford, England) - Email Me Seriously they really need to read something other than Jack Chick. |
| Filk For Fundies | Oct 31st. at 1:51:02 pm EDT |
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Terry (Irvington, Virginia) - Email Me Tweaking the Fundies, Tweaking the Fundies, Who'll come a tweaking the Fundies with me? It's time for someone to write the rest of that filk, that could be based on the traditional SCAdian ballad, "Freaking the Mundanes", that of course to the traditional tune of Waltzing Matilda. Barry Lynn and Pat Robertson have one thing in common. They're both lawyers who are also clergy. How they differ from that shared background, one a voice of ethics and the core principles of law, the other a greedy manipulator using the guise of religion to con donations to corrupt business enterprises and tax frauds, and to manipulate politics for power and profit wherever possible. Dementia in Robertson has certainly revealed a bit about his leanings, now that he has lost the self discipline to be as effective a liar and con artist as he used to manage. What if that NC Baptist church got honest in burning perversions of the real historic manuscript and meaning behind what they claim is their bible? Imagine the Baptist hate cult dictum and dogma they'd find to burn.... While we watch in amusement as rabid fundies push their own self-destruct buttons in ways outsiders could never do, who'd care to contribute another verse or two we might sing along as we watch? |
| I Agree... | Oct 31st. at 1:48:53 pm EDT |
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Corax (Glendale, Arizona) - Email Me with Barry Lynn who recently said on Keith Olbermann's "Countdown", that the religious righters are sad, humorless people who don't want anyone to have any fun. As a former fundy, I speak from experience that in fundyworld, NOTHING is safe from suspicion and condemnation. fundys are taught to be hyper-suspicious about everything, especially that which is fun, because fun leads to (non-religious) happiness, which always leads to sin - fundys are, for all intents and purposes PROHIBITED from having any non-scrutinized fun; THEY can't have any real fun, and since misery loves company, they don't want anyone else to have fun either! These pat robberson clones are all a bunch of liars and cheats - I seriously doubt whether he or any of his minions have ever actually sat down and talked with a REAL Witch. I say this because they are clearly monumentally ignorant about what Witches are really about, not to mention having very inaccurate ideas about magic and how it works. The article mentions that church pastor in NC who is going to have a book and music burning. What should convince everyone that these people go way too far, is that he's going to burn EVERY kind of book and music that there is. I must therefore assume that the only materials that are acceptable to him are radically fundy books and radically fundy music. BTW, wasn't there a bunch of people in 1930s Germany who did the same thing??? Where there's smoke, there's fire! |
| Glad It's Almost Over | Oct 31st. at 10:52:32 am EDT |
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Zyalia The Crone (Budd Lake, New Jersey) - Email Me Personally I am just so happy that the Halloween season is nearly over. I am fair knackered from cursing all the candy within a 50 mile radius...and my nose feels like it's ready to fall off from all the extra wiggles... |
| More, Please! | Oct 31st. at 10:50:29 am EDT |
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Lorca (Longview, Washington) - Email Me Unfortunately, the webmasters at the CBN website have taken down Ms. Daniels' loony screed, but not nearly fast enough for the Internet's (satanic?) spiders to have snagged it in their web and cached it for all to see and guffaw over. Would that there were more such obvious examples of the fundie's "fear and ignorance" modus operandi. |
| Oy Vey | Oct 31st. at 10:18:06 am EDT |
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Emerald Tiger (Jamestown, North Dakota) - Email Me All I can say is OOCPMPROGLMBO (Out Of Chair Peeing My Pants Rolling On Ground Laughing My Butt Off) |
| Condemed By Their Own Words ... | Oct 31st. at 9:50:17 am EDT |
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Rasalon (Oregon City, Oregon) - Email Me This sort of stupidity only drives people away from the Christ' s message of love and acceptence. "But whosoever shall offend one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better of him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and that he we drowned in the depth of the sea" "Blind guides, blind fools" J.C. Rasalon of Cascadia |
| Ah, The Halloween Panic... | Oct 31st. at 9:01:05 am EDT |
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Laura C. (Weston, Florida) - Email Me It just wouldn't feel like Samhain without a bunch of silly people overreacting about the pagan origins of Halloween. Also, the fetus pumpkin is pretty well-done, artistically. |
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