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Post A Reply Login Name: Password: Message: HTML is enabled. UBB Code™ is enabled. [QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] "Halloween is evil!" "It's Satanic!" "It's a wicked pagan holiday!" I swear, if I hear those words from JUST ONE MORE Fundie Idiot, I'm gonna have to strangle 'em. For the sake of Humanity. Kiddies. 1. Halloween started its existence as a harvest/equinox festival. It was called Samhain, in honor of the God of Death and Darkness. (PLEASE note that to these people, Death and Darkness were not EVIL things, just natural parts of life,which the year just happened to mimic. "It's the cirrrcle of liiiiife...") They were headed into the days of longer night and cold, and it seemed the whole world was dying off. MY guess, although I could be wrong about this bit, is that it was originally AT the equinox, but was moved later in order to be on a single day on the new calendar, or to become All-Hallows Eve ( precursor to the very Christian All-Saints Day, Nov.1 ) 2. These same folks had NO concept of the Christian "Satan." It didn't exist to them. Saying otherwise is false, libelous, and just plain ignorant. 3. The practice of dressing up came about due to the belief that the spirits of the dead could return on this day. Now, the spirits of the dead were not always unwelcome. Many sought to honor their ancestors (much as the Chinese do,) and welcomed their return any any advice they might give. However, some spirits were just plain NASTY, and the belief was that if you could fool these spirits into thinking you were one of them, they would let you be. Alternatively, if you were scary enough, they would FLEE from you. Hence, the meaning of dressing up is to SCARE the evil spirits, NOT to JOIN them. 4. Halloween today is no more a "pagan holiday" than are Christmas and Easter (which, as anyone moderately intelligent knows, were ALSO originally pagan festivals, and co-opted by Christianity. "Eostre" was a goddess.) Truthfully, they are all now just massive consumer orgies of buying and overindulgence. But we'll let that one go. There, now I've vented, which will hopefully keep me from blasting all thout at the next Fundie Idiot I meet in the library who goes off about my decorations or my letting the kids dress up for story hour. ANYONE who believes all that Halloween = Satanism crap is LIVING IN AN UNREAL WORLD. And they should crawl inside and seal the door shut after them. *pant* *pant* That's better. [/QB][/QUOTE]

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