What’s Wrong with Halloween?

El Hombre viejo · Oct 29, 2010

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What’s wrong with Halloween? Is it OK for Christians to participate in the events surrounding it?
The History of Halloween
“Mom, can I dress up like Casper this year?”
“Dad, can we carve a jack-o’-lantern and put it on the porch?”
Halloween...costume-clad children happily skipping from door to door shouting “trick or treat!” expecting to fill their bags with candy, gum and other goodies...houses decorated with jack-o’-lanterns, pumpkins, witches with broomsticks and black cats. These are the most-common sights of the celebration of Halloween. They are all make-believe and harmless...or are they?
Each year during Halloween, parents are faced with the dilemma of letting their children participate in what the world calls “harmless fun” and their own concerns about the spiritual significance of this holiday. While we all have to hear God for ourselves concerning these decisions, we thought the following history of Halloween might be helpful to you and your family.
Halloween, which directly stems from Irish, Scottish and British folk customs, was celebrated as the Druids’ autumn festival. The Druids were an order of priests who worshiped nature. This holiday was originally celebrated to honor Samhain, lord of the dead, on October 31 (the end of the summer). The Druids believed that on this date, Samhain called all the wicked souls which had been condemned within the last year to live in animal bodies. He was believed to have released them in the form of spirits, ghosts, fairies, witches and elves.
According to druidic tradition, these souls of the dead roamed the city on Halloween night and returned to haunt the homes where they once lived. The only way the current occupants of the house could free themselves from being haunted was to lay out food and give shelter to the spirit during the night. If they did not, the spirit would cast a spell on them. That is where the phrase “trick or treat!” comes from: They would be tricked if they did not lay out a treat.
The jack-o’-lantern was also a part of this belief system. The carved pumpkin symbolized a damned soul named Jack. According to the tale, Jack was not allowed into heaven or hell. So he wandered around in the darkness with his lantern until Judgment Day. Fearful people hollowed out turnips (and later pumpkins in the United States), carved an evil face on them, and a lit candle inside to scare him and other evil spirits away.
The Druids had other outlandish beliefs which have since turned into tradition. For example, they were afraid of black cats because they believed that when a person committed evil, he would be turned into a cat. Cats were thus considered to be evil. To scare them away, the Druids decorated their homes with witches, ghosts and the like. They also decorated with cornstalks, pumpkins and other goods in offering of thanks and praise to their false gods.
In addition to being Halloween, October 31 was also the New Year’s Eve of the Celts and Anglo-Saxons. To celebrate, they built huge bonfires on hilltops to frighten away evil spirits, and often offered their crops and animals to the evil ones as a sacrifice—sometimes they even offered themselves.
Some people believe the only significance of Halloween was as All Hallows’ Eve, the evening before All Saints’ Day. But All Saints’ Day was originally celebrated by the Catholic Church in May. Around A.D. 43 the Romans conquered the Celts and changed All Saints’ Day to November 1. The celebration remained the same with minor additions. The Roman Harvest Festival was then held in honor of Pamona, the goddess of fruit and trees (the practice of bobbing for apples is derived from this). And the Romans also wanted to honor the newly overpowered descendants of the Druids in Germany and Scandinavia, so All Saints’ Day and Halloween became unified with the same focus of reverencing the dead.
The combination of these customs has developed into the traditional celebration we call Halloween.
Note: Information for this article was taken from several sources....all easily found at your local library. Most encyclopedias have information on the origin and history of Halloween.

localgirl · Oct 29, 2010

It sounds like harmless fun and kids enjoy dressing up and asking for candy but it's said that Halloween is also known as the devils birthday and that all the demonds and evil spirits celebrate his birthday on this day. It's basically a celebration of black magic.

"1Co 10:21 And you can't have it both ways, banqueting with the Master one day and slumming with demons the next. "

I'm skipping Halloween.

soberxp · Oct 29, 2010

“trick or treat!” sounds like the doctrine of bible...................but I don't really know what's Halloween?

<TABLE class=forumline cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=4 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=row1 noWrap height=25>Luk 9:5 </TD><TD class=row1 width="99%">And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them. </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

jiggyfly · Oct 29, 2010

Halloween; everyone dresses up and pretends to be something they are not.

Kinda sounds like Sunday morning too, maybe it is a christian religious holiday after all.LOL:wink:

El Hombre viejo · Oct 29, 2010

soberxp said:
“trick or treat!” sounds like the doctrine of bible...................but I don't really know what's Halloween?

<table class="forumline" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1"><tbody><tr><td class="row1" height="25" nowrap="nowrap">Luk 9:5 </td><td class="row1" width="99%">And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them. </td></tr></tbody></table>

soberxp Its probably my misunderstanding, but, your posts seem to be quite ambiguous. I'm really glad you contribute but I rarely get your point. Help?

Boanerges · Oct 29, 2010

El Hombre viejo said:
soberxp Its probably my misunderstanding, but, your posts seem to be quite ambiguous. I'm really glad you contribute but I rarely get your point. Help?

My friend soberxphas speaks Chinese as a native language. That needs to be considered when reading his posts.

El Hombre viejo · Oct 29, 2010

Boanerges said:
My friend soberxphas speaks Chinese as a native language. That needs to be considered when reading his posts.

I understand that Bo but I don't understand. I was hoping he could fill in a little more.

Boanerges · Oct 29, 2010

soberxp said:
“trick or treat!” sounds like the doctrine of bible...................but I don't really know what's Halloween?

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Yes, I used to call the name it and claim it crowd trick or treaters- LOL! It is a modern holiday with it's roots deeply embedded in pagan origins.

Halloween
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Also called All Hallows’ Eve
All Saints’ Eve
Observed by Ireland, Canada, United Kingdom, United States and other places.
Type Secular, Christian, and Celtic tradition
Date October 31
Observances Costume parties, trick-or-treating in costumes, carving pumpkins, ghost tours, haunted attractions, bonfires, divination, apple bobbing.
Related to Samhain, All Saints’ Day

Halloween (or Hallowe'en) is an annual holiday observed on October 31, primarily in the United States, Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. It has roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian holiday All Saints' Day, but is today largely a secular celebration.

Common Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, wearing costumes and attending costume parties, carving jack-o'-lanterns, ghost tours, bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, committing pranks, telling ghost stories or other frightening tales, and watching horror films.

History

Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while "some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, whose original spelling was Samuin (pronounced sow-an or sow-in)".[1] The name is derived from Old Irish and means roughly "summer's end".[1] A similar festival was held by the ancient Britons and is known as Calan Gaeaf (pronounced Kálan Gái av).
Snap-Apple Night by Daniel Maclise showing a Halloween party in Blarney, Ireland, in 1832. The young children on the right bob for apples. A couple in the center play a variant, which involves retrieving an apple hanging from a string. The couples at left play divination games.

The festival of Samhain celebrates the end of the "lighter half" of the year and beginning of the "darker half", and is sometimes[2] regarded as the "Celtic New Year".[3]

The ancient Celts believed that the border between this world and the Otherworld became thin on Samhain, allowing spirits (both harmless and harmful) to pass through. The family's ancestors were honoured and invited home while harmful spirits were warded off. It is believed that the need to ward off harmful spirits led to the wearing of costumes and masks. Their purpose was to disguise oneself as a harmful spirit and thus avoid harm. In Scotland the spirits were impersonated by young men dressed in white with masked, veiled or blackened faces.[4][5] Samhain was also a time to take stock of food supplies and slaughter livestock for winter stores. Bonfires played a large part in the festivities. All other fires were doused and each home lit their hearth from the bonfire. The bones of slaughtered livestock were cast into its flames.[6] Sometimes two bonfires would be built side-by-side, and people and their livestock would walk between them as a cleansing ritual.

Another common practice was divination, which often involved the use of food and drink.

The name 'Halloween' and many of its present-day traditions derive from the Old English era.[7][8][9]
Origin of name

The word Halloween is first attested in the 16th century and represents a Scottish variant of the fuller All-Hallows-Even ("evening"), that is, the night before All Hallows Day. Up through the early 20th century, the spelling "Hallowe'en" was frequently used, eliding the "v" and shortening the word. Although the phrase All Hallows is found in Old English (ealra hālgena mæssedæg, mass-day of all saints), All-Hallows-Even is itself not attested until 1556.[10]
Symbols
Jack-o'-lanterns in Kobe, Japan

Development of artifacts and symbols associated with Halloween formed over time encompassing customs of medieval holy days as well as contemporary cultures. The souling practice of commemorating the souls in purgatory with candle lanterns carved from turnips, became adapted into the making of jack-o'-lanterns.[11] In traditional Celtic Halloween festivals, large turnips were hollowed out, carved with faces, and placed in windows to ward off evil spirits.[5] The carving of pumpkins is associated with Halloween in North America where pumpkins are both readily available and much larger – making them easier to carve than turnips.[12] Many families that celebrate Halloween carve a pumpkin into a frightening or comical face and place it on their doorstep after dark. The American tradition of carving pumpkins preceded the Great Famine period of Irish immigration[13] and was originally associated with harvest time in general, not becoming specifically associated with Halloween until the mid-to-late 19th century.[14][15]

The imagery of Halloween is derived from many sources, including national customs, works of Gothic and horror literature (such as the novels Frankenstein and Dracula), and classic horror films (such as Frankenstein and The Mummy).[16] Elements of the autumn season, such as pumpkins, corn husks, and scarecrows, are also prevalent. Homes are often decorated with these types of symbols around Halloween.

Halloween imagery includes themes of death, evil, the occult, magic, or mythical monsters.[17] Traditional characters include ghosts, witches, skeletons, vampires, werewolves, demons, bats, spiders, and black cats.[18] Black and orange are the traditional Halloween colors and represent the darkness of night and the color of bonfires, autumn leaves, and jack-o'-lanterns.[18]
Trick-or-treating and guising
Main article: Trick-or-treating
Trick-or-treating in Sweden.

Trick-or-treating is a customary celebration for children on Halloween. Children go in costume from house to house, asking for treats such as candy or sometimes money, with the question, "Trick or treat?" The word "trick" refers to a (mostly idle) "threat" to perform mischief on the homeowners or their property if no treat is given. In some parts of Scotland children still go guising. In this custom the child performs some sort of trick, i.e. sings a song or tells a ghost story, to earn their treats.

The practice of dressing up in costumes and begging door to door for treats on holidays dates back to the Middle Ages and includes Christmas wassailing. Trick-or-treating resembles the late medieval practice of souling, when poor folk would go door to door on Hallowmas (November 1), receiving food in return for prayers for the dead on All Souls Day (November 2). It originated in Ireland and Britain,[19] although similar practices for the souls of the dead were found as far south as Italy.[20] Shakespeare mentions the practice in his comedy The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1593), when Speed accuses his master of "puling [whimpering or whining] like a beggar at Hallowmas."[21] The custom of wearing costumes and masks at Halloween goes back to Celtic traditions of attempting to copy the evil spirits or placate them, in Scotland for instance where the dead were impersonated by young men with masked, veiled or blackened faces, dressed in white.[22][5]

American historian and author Ruth Edna Kelley of Massachusetts wrote the first book length history of the holiday in the US; The Book of Hallowe'en (1919), and references souling in the chapter "Hallowe'en in America";

The taste in Hallowe'en festivities now is to study old traditions, and hold a Scotch party, using Burn's poem Hallowe'en as a guide; or to go a-souling as the English used. In short, no custom that was once honored at Hallowe'en is out of fashion now.[23]

Kelley lived in Lynn, Massachusetts, a town with 4,500 Irish immigrants, 1,900 English immigrants, and 700 Scottish immigrants in 1920.[24] In her book, Kelley touches on customs that arrived from across the Atlantic; "Americans have fostered them, and are making this an occasion something like what it must have been in its best days overseas. All Hallowe'en customs in the United States are borrowed directly or adapted from those of other countries".[25]

At the time of substantial transatlantic Scottish and Irish immigration that brought the holiday to North America in the 19th century, Halloween in Scotland and Ireland had a strong tradition of "guising" — Scottish and Irish children disguised in costumes going from door to door requesting food or coins.[26]

The earliest known reference to ritual begging on Halloween in English speaking North America occurs in 1911, when a newspaper in Kingston, Ontario reported that it was normal for the smaller children to go street "guising" (see below) on Halloween between 6 and 7 p.m., visiting shops and neighbors to be rewarded with nuts and candies for their rhymes and songs.[27] Another isolated reference to ritual begging on Halloween appears, place unknown, in 1915, with a third reference in Chicago in 1920.[28]

The earliest known use in print of the term "trick or treat" appears in 1927, from Blackie, Alberta, Canada:

Hallowe’en provided an opportunity for real strenuous fun. No real damage was done except to the temper of some who had to hunt for wagon wheels, gates, wagons, barrels, etc., much of which decorated the front street. The youthful tormentors were at back door and front demanding edible plunder by the word “trick or treat” to which the inmates gladly responded and sent the robbers away rejoicing.[29]

The thousands of Halloween postcards produced between the turn of the 20th century and the 1920s commonly show children but do not depict trick-or-treating.[30] The editor of a collection of over 3,000 vintage Halloween postcards writes, "There are cards which mention the custom [of trick-or-treating] or show children in costumes at the doors, but as far as we can tell they were printed later than the 1920s and more than likely even the 1930s. Tricksters of various sorts are shown on the early postcards, but not the means of appeasing them".[31] Trick-or-treating does not seem to have become a widespread practice until the 1930s, with the first U.S. appearances of the term in 1934,[32] and the first use in a national publication occurring in 1939.[33]
Costumes
Main article: Halloween costume
People dressing in Halloween Costumes in Dublin.

Halloween costumes are traditionally modeled after monsters such as ghosts, skeletons, witches, and devils. Over time, the costume selection extended to include popular characters from fiction, celebrities, and generic archetypes such as ninjas and princesses.

Dressing up in costumes and going "guising" was prevalent in Scotland and Ireland at Halloween by the 19th century.[26] Costuming became popular for Halloween parties in the US in the early 20th century, as often for adults as for children. The first mass-produced Halloween costumes appeared in stores in the 1930s when trick-or-treating was becoming popular in the United States.

What sets Halloween costumes apart from costumes for other celebrations or days of dressing up is that they are often designed to imitate supernatural and scary beings. Costumes are traditionally those of monsters such as vampires, ghosts, skeletons, witches, and devils, or in more recent years such science fiction-inspired characters as aliens and superheroes. There are also costumes of pop culture figures like presidents, athletes, celebrities, or film, television, and cartoon characters. Another popular trend is for women (and in some cases, men)to wear sexy or revealing costumes.[34]

Halloween costume parties generally fall on, or around, 31 October, often falling on the Friday or Saturday prior to Halloween
Games and other activities
In this Halloween greeting card from 1904, divination is depicted: the young woman looking into a mirror in a darkened room hopes to catch a glimpse of the face of her future husband.

There are several games traditionally associated with Halloween parties. One common game is dunking or apple bobbing, in which apples float in a tub or a large basin of water and the participants must use their teeth to remove an apple from the basin.[35] A variant of dunking involves kneeling on a chair, holding a fork between the teeth and trying to drop the fork into an apple.[36] Another common game involves hanging up treacle or syrup-coated scones by strings; these must be eaten without using hands while they remain attached to the string, an activity that inevitably leads to a very sticky face.

Some games traditionally played at Halloween are forms of divination. A traditional Scottish form of divining one's future spouse is to carve an apple in one long strip, then toss the peel over one's shoulder. The peel is believed to land in the shape of the first letter of the future spouse's name.[37] Unmarried women were told that if they sat in a darkened room and gazed into a mirror on Halloween night, the face of their future husband would appear in the mirror. However, if they were destined to die before marriage, a skull would appear. The custom was widespread enough to be commemorated on greeting cards[38] from the late 19th century and early 20th century.

The telling of ghost stories and viewing of horror films are common fixtures of Halloween parties. Episodes of television series and Halloween-themed specials (with the specials usually aimed at children) are commonly aired on or before the holiday, while new horror films are often released theatrically before the holiday to take advantage of the atmosphere.
Haunted attractions
Main article: Haunted attraction
In front of haunted house during Halloween season, Northern California.

Haunted attractions are entertainment venues designed to thrill and scare patrons. Most attractions are seasonal Halloween businesses. Origins of these paid scare venues are difficult to pinpoint, but it is generally accepted that they were first commonly used by the Junior Chamber International (Jaycees) for fundraising.[39] They include haunted houses, corn mazes, and hayrides,[40] and the level of sophistication of the effects has risen as the industry has grown. Haunted attractions in the United States bring in an estimate $300–500 million each year, and draw some 400,000 customers, although trends suggest a peak in 2005.[39] This increase in interest has led to more highly technical special effects and costuming that is comparable with that in Hollywood films.[41]
Foods
Candy apple

Because the holiday comes in the wake of the annual apple harvest, candy apples (known as toffee apples outside North America), caramel or taffy apples are common Halloween treats made by rolling whole apples in a sticky sugar syrup, sometimes followed by rolling them in nuts.

At one time, candy apples were commonly given to children, but the practice rapidly waned in the wake of widespread rumors that some individuals were embedding items like pins and razor blades in the apples.[42] While there is evidence of such incidents,[43] they are quite rare and have never resulted in serious injury. Nonetheless, many parents assumed that such heinous practices were rampant because of the mass media. At the peak of the hysteria, some hospitals offered free X-rays of children's Halloween hauls in order to find evidence of tampering. Virtually all of the few known candy poisoning incidents involved parents who poisoned their own children's candy.[citation needed]

One custom that persists in modern-day Ireland is the baking (or more often nowadays, the purchase) of a barmbrack (Irish: báirín breac), which is a light fruitcake, into which a plain ring, a coin and other charms are placed before baking. It is said that those who get a ring will find their true love in the ensuing year. This is similar to the tradition of king cake at the festival of Epiphany.

soberxp · Oct 29, 2010

El Hombre viejo said:
soberxp Its probably my misunderstanding, but, your posts seem to be quite ambiguous. I'm really glad you contribute but I rarely get your point. Help?

LOL,cuz I'm Jumping way of thinking!

thx Boanerges
BTW are you really Boanerges?

TheDJ · Oct 29, 2010

It is up to each Christian family to decide if this is something you want your kids participating in. I do not have kids, however if it were me, I would not have my children participate in this "holiday" and explain to them why, and then do something fun with them so they do not miss out on any fun other children are having.

It comes down to the parent's decision on what they feel is right and wrong concerning Halloween. Some say it is harmless and just for fun, which it can be, however in today's world you have to worry about people poisoning candy, or kids being kidnapped, because on Halloween the most kids are kidnapped.

The roots of Halloween are not good, and promote darkness, which in my opinion is not good for Christian family's to be participating in, however if a Christian family decides to do so that does not make them any less Christian and that is their own decision and we still love them and fellowship with them.

Thanks for posting the information, I think it is good we as Christians know the origins of Halloween.

El Hombre viejo · Oct 29, 2010

TheDJ said:
It is up to each Christian family to decide if this is something you want your kids participating in. I do not have kids, however if it were me, I would not have my children participate in this "holiday" and explain to them why, and then do something fun with them so they do not miss out on any fun other children are having.

It comes down to the parent's decision on what they feel is right and wrong concerning Halloween. Some say it is harmless and just for fun, which it can be, however in today's world you have to worry about people poisoning candy, or kids being kidnapped, because on Halloween the most kids are kidnapped.

The roots of Halloween are not good, and promote darkness, which in my opinion is not good for Christian family's to be participating in, however if a Christian family decides to do so that does not make them any less Christian and that is their own decision and we still love them and fellowship with them.

Thanks for posting the information, I think it is good we as Christians know the origins of Halloween.

How can it be harmless?

TheDJ · Oct 29, 2010

El Hombre viejo said:
How can it be harmless?

This is what some parents have said and others who celebrate Halloween. As I mentioned I don't think it is safe concerning the kidnappings, poisoned candy etc.. as I would not let my children celebrate this for reasons I defined.

El Hombre viejo · Oct 29, 2010

TheDJ said:
This is what some parents have said and others who celebrate Halloween. As I mentioned I don't think it is safe concerning the kidnappings, poisoned candy etc.. as I would not let my children celebrate this for reasons I defined.

I understand. If they think its harmless then they know nothing of the spirit world. Nuff said.

kyval82 · Oct 29, 2010

I see nothing wrong with letting kids dress up and get candy, but i do not celebrate it, it is a silly day and I don't care for it much. the only thing I like is taking my son to get his costume and having fun with him getting his treats...

We always go to the haleiglujah(icant spell that lol) party at church and that is much more fun!

sojourn4Christ · Oct 29, 2010

learn not the way of the heathen

We must note that in Illuminism, the month of October is the prime month for their activities because of the 31st day of that month, which the witches and Illuminists call Samhain (pronounced SOW en), and which the false "Christians" celebrate as Halloween. All indications reveal that the month of October will be one of incredible Illuministic activity, and we must all be praying against it.

As I view humanity in this country, I see a people that have been prepared and ripened for a reaping by the Illuministic adepts of the Age of Aquarius. It was the ancient Celtic Druids, who believed that on October 31st, Kernos, the "Horned Hunter of the Night", would go forth and reap souls. Kernos is just another name for Satan, and let every Christian be warned to have nothing to do with Halloween. It is not just a joke, nor is it just all in "fun!" Churches die spiritually because of such foolishness, and it is a grief to the Spirit of Almighty God to see people who should know better involved with the works of darkness! The Roman Catholic religion is responsible for Halloween becoming a so-called "Christian" day of festivity. That church has shown its true colors by doing so, and likewise do all the churches that mimic her activities. Halloween is witchcraft of the first magnitude. I know, because there was a time when I loved that day, because I was so much a part of that world. Now I hate the works of darkness and sternly warn of its dangers! It will be "Red October" for the world, but it doesn't have to be for you!

I believe we have been told to watch and pray, and that we must fight the good fight of faith. The Apostle Paul also warned us to not be ignorant of Satan's devices. (II Corinthians 2:11). As I consider this time of the year, I am saddened to see so many of Satan's devices at work in churches. So many churches have celebrations on Halloween, which is strictly occult and has nothing to do with Christianity. I have in front of me an Associated Press article with the headlines, "For Halloween, Church Plans Eerie Hell House." It tells of the plans of the Abundant Life Christian Center, (a Pentecostal Church), to open a "Hell House" for Halloween. The church also sells "how-to kits" for $149.00 to other churches that want to set up their own Hell Houses. October 31st is a day when Christians ought to be praying and doing spiritual warfare against everything related to Halloween.

Once Halloween, a high sabat of the witches is over, we will have election day. That is another nightmare in and of itself. In addition to that, November has always been a month of heavy Illuministic activity.

It breaks my heart to see our nation so absorbed in the highest sabat in the old Celtic, Wiccan tradition. Halloween is strictly witchcraft and dates back to the time of the early Middle Ages when the Druids walked down the shadowy roads of England near Stonehenge and used hollowed-out pumpkins with faces cut in them and illuminated with candles made from human tallow. The jack-o-lanterns marked the place where people gave up a victim for human sacrifice. All hearths were extinguished that night as the victims were killed and burned in their “sacred” bonefire from whence comes the word “bonfire.” All hearths were relighted for the coming dark season, which turned again after Yule, and they were lighted with embers from the bonefire at the astral temple of Stonehenge. This is the essence of Halloween, and when I try to warn people of the spiritual dangers of these things, I find that two kinds of people give me the most trouble and threatenings: the witches and the so-called “Christians.”

The proliferation of witchcraft is so intense and widespread. Now there is a Halloween Barbie doll, who is dressed like a gypsy and comes complete with a crystal ball. But perhaps I can best illustrate where we are at as a country by listing some bumper stickers that are being seen everywhere. Here are a few: “Born Again Pagan”; Blessed Beltane! May 1st Goddess Bless”; “I asked God, She’s Pro-Choice”; “Blessed Yule, December 21st; The day the Great Goddess gives birth to Her son/lover”; “Blessed Be, Solstice is the reason for the season, Goddess Bless”; “Sorry I missed church. I’ve been busy practicing Witchcraft”; “Guilt, Fear & Mass Insanity, 3 Cheers for Christianity”; “Be Still and Know that I Am Goddess.”

Witchcraft, like homosexuality, is completely out of the closet. Halloween, a day that is strictly a witchcraft sabat, is becoming more important each year as can be seen by the decorations and activities. Because pusillanimous and cowardly ministers refuse to speak against Halloween, and because of the saturation of Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings materials, witchcraft goes unchallenged even in fundamentalist churches.

soberxp · Oct 29, 2010

Lord of the Rings

one of my favorite movie......

avatar

one of god's favorite movie

no kidding

Boanerges · Oct 30, 2010

soberxp said:
BTW are you really Boanerges?

You can call me brother Larry. I picked the name Boanerges (sons of thunder) because of my two sons who are strong in the Lord.

kyval82 · Oct 30, 2010

Boanerges said:
You can call me brother Larry. I picked the name Boanerges (sons of thunder) because of my two sons who are strong in the Lord.

That is a beautiful name and reason brother Bo.

soberxp · Oct 30, 2010

Boanerges said:
You can call me brother Larry. I picked the name Boanerges (sons of thunder) because of my two sons who are strong in the Lord.

:shock: the name Boanerges (sons of thunder)？
missionary == Boanerges？？？
brother Larry . I got a little bit mixed up.

Beatriz · Oct 31, 2010

I think it's pretty harmless. Things change over time, its human progress, and there isn't anything necessarily good or bad about it. It just IS.

As Christians, I don't think our job is to shield kids from society. We need to allow them to partake in what they wish to partake in, and explain our beliefs and why we choose to follow them.

Would you be against celebrating Valentine's Day? It was, technically, a Roman holiday that worshiped the goddess of fertility.

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