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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jubilee McGann: [QB] It is unfortunate that the most holy and solemn day of the year for my religion has become a scapegoat for these things. However, as First of Two has stated, "satanic" things happen on more than just THIS day of the year, and the same holds true for crime and all sorts of evil and wrongdoing. It just so happens that Halloween has gotten a bad name <u>simply because it was once only a pagan holiday</u>. Because the older christians feared and didn't understand it, they considered it to be of satan, and shunned it. But lets not take it away simply because of a few bad things. There is lots of fun to be had on halloween, when it's treated responsibly. For instance, bobbing for apples, decorating/carving pumpkins, roasting pumpkin seeds, dressing up and eating candy. These are harmless and fun activities that celebrate the season without being "satanic". Instead of shunning things, why not teach your children to behave like this, and have a healthy, happy, fun holiday? For those of you who say you can't celebrate halloween because of what might happen on this day, you might as well not celebrate christmas, or new years, or the fourth of july, or thanksgiving, etc. My mother didn't let us dress up or go trick-or-treating on halloween night. We weren't allowed to celebrate that at all. However... the one thing she DID do that i'm gratefull for is instead she created "harvest festival" that night for us. We bobbed for apples, tried to bite donuts off strings hung from the ceiling, carved pumpkins, drank apple cider, and one year we made cornbread and pumpkin cookies. We still gave out candy to the children who came. I never thought of this holiday as evil BECAUSE of this, and now that I'm pagan I suppose I never will. There are alternatives here besides telling your children "it's an evil holiday and we can't celebrate it because it's full of satan". Then all your children learn is fear and hatred of the unkown. The circle has to be broken sometime. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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