The Dangers of Halloween

**JohnnyLingo** · 10-30-2009, 01:38 PM

Boy there sure are some whack job Christians out there.

I had no idea there were people like this.

**TripletDaddy** · 10-30-2009, 01:38 PM

You have a really high hit percentage on your posts. You post here and there, but every one seems to be a gem. Your last post with that kooky painting was classic.

This article is based on a faulty premise. Halloween is in no way a holiday. The banks, the US government, public schools, and the workplace....nobody observes Halloween as a holiday. It is more akin to a festivity.

If I don't work on Labor Day or Christmas, I charge my time to HOL. If I don't work on Halloween, I charge it to PTO. And since nobody takes PTO on Halloween, I basically charge my time like any other work day.

This woman would make a great seminary teacher. She is teaching all sorts of apocrypha:

Lucifer is a part of the demonic godhead.

During Halloween, time-released curses are always loosed. A time-released curse is a period that has been set aside to release demonic activity and to ensnare souls in great measure.

During this period demons are assigned against those who participate in the rituals and festivities. These demons are automatically drawn to the fetishes that open doors for them to come into the lives of human beings.

Even the colors of Halloween (orange, brown and dark red) are dedicated.

I don't want to end on a negative note, so I will say sincerely that this woman's picture is flattering. She looks pretty and she seems like a nice person.

**Moliere** · 10-30-2009, 02:30 PM

Originally posted by Solon View Post

http://www.charismamag.com/index.php...ting-halloween

Yeah, that's right. I'm putting this in the Foyer as a religious topic.

My favorite line:

The local radio station was talking about this article this morning. I guess some national media picked it up briefly, so sorry if someone has already commented upon this or posted it.

Don't forget about razor blades and needles in candy. When my kids get back from looting, we take the candy to the hospital to be x-rayed for hazardous materials. Our hospital performs this service free of charge.

**UtahDan** · 10-30-2009, 02:34 PM

Originally posted by Eddie Jones View Post

Don't forget about razor blades and needles in candy. When my kids get back from looting, we take the candy to the hospital to be x-rayed for hazardous materials. Our hospital performs this service free of charge.

I'm more concerned about H1N1 from candy dispensed by dirty hands. Half the neighborhood has it. We're thinking about letter our almost three year old do the trick or treat thing then chucking her candy and filling he bag with stuff we bought.

**Green Lantern** · 10-30-2009, 02:57 PM

My favorite line:

I have prayed for witches who are addicted to drinking blood and howling at the moon.

I want to meet this lady. Is it wrong that I secretly wish the world was more like the one she believes in? Maybe I've read too much Lovecraft and watched too much David Lynch, but the thought of a dark, disturbing world existing a hair's breadth below ours intrigues me to no end. To think that we are only a dark alley or a severed ear in a field away from a world far outside of our normal experience....

**Clark Addison** · 10-31-2009, 09:26 AM

Only somewhat related.

We had our ward Halloween party/Trunk or Treat last night. The Stake President's wife, who is in our ward, gave the opening prayer. She somewhat mechanically started a phrase "We are thankful to gather together to celebrate . . ." And then I think she thought in her mind that, while there is nothing wrong with Halloween, it is kind of odd to thank God in a prayer for the oppportunity to dress up as vampires, ninjas and skeletons. SO ther ewas a short pause and an awkward end of the phrase of something like "with each other this night".

**marsupial** · 10-31-2009, 09:50 AM

Around here, a lot of Halloween parties are called "harvest celebrations," with no mention of Halloween at all. Also, the schools don't do anything for Halloween, no class party or carnival. My guess is it is the evangelical influence.

**UtahDan** · 10-31-2009, 11:21 AM

Originally posted by marsupial View Post

Around here, a lot of Halloween parties are called "harvest celebrations," with no mention of Halloween at all. Also, the schools don't do anything for Halloween, no class party or carnival. My guess is it is the evangelical influence.

They are much more hardcore on that stuff than we are.

**LA Ute** · 10-31-2009, 11:43 AM

My Orthodox Jewish friends don't allow their kids to participate and don't give out candy because of what they see as Halloween's pagan origins.

**UtahDan** · 10-31-2009, 11:46 AM

Originally posted by LA Ute View Post

My Orthodox Jewish friends don't allow their kids to participate and don't give out candy because of what they see as Halloween's pagan origins.

My Bishop and I were waiting for the last kid to be picked up from seminary on Thursday and were talking about some of the origins of Halloween and the pagan aspects of it. He really knew a lot about it. I was wondering what he had concluded based on that knowledge so I tested the waters by saying "well, whatever it used to be it is now basically a commercial holiday that is all about putting on costumes, eating candy and carving up pumpkins." He said "that is what I think too."

+1, Bishop.

**Green Lantern** · 11-02-2009, 09:49 AM

Originally posted by marsupial View Post

Around here, a lot of Halloween parties are called "harvest celebrations," with no mention of Halloween at all. Also, the schools don't do anything for Halloween, no class party or carnival. My guess is it is the evangelical influence.

Isn't calling it a "harvest celebration" more pagan than calling it Halloween which, I believe, actually exists on the Christian liturgical calendar?

**creekster** · 11-02-2009, 10:03 AM

Originally posted by Green Lantern View Post

Isn't calling it a "harvest celebration" more pagan than calling it Halloween which, I believe, actually exists on the Christian liturgical calendar?

Is All Hallows eve or All Hallows day on the liturgical calendar? I am not sure a harvest celevration is really pagan, as we all need to eat.

**Solon** · 11-02-2009, 10:32 AM

Originally posted by Green Lantern View Post

Isn't calling it a "harvest celebration" more pagan than calling it Halloween which, I believe, actually exists on the Christian liturgical calendar?

There are several day-care/preschools that do "Fall Festivals" instead of Halloween, not for religious reasons but because there are so many foreign children in the school. I think that's weak. It seems to me that foreign kids would love Halloween as much as any other kid.

**Green Lantern** · 11-02-2009, 10:53 AM

Originally posted by creekster View Post

Is All Hallows eve or All Hallows day on the liturgical calendar? I am not sure a harvest celevration is really pagan, as we all need to eat.

Eh, I don't really know. A quick check of Wikipedia says that November 1 is on the calendar (All Saints Day) but not the day before. I learned about that day in French class as La Toussaint where we all brought different kinds of cheese and just pigged out. Thanks Monsieur E.!

Oh, and for the record, I'm personally a big fan of pagan holidays!

The Dangers of Halloween

The Dangers of Halloween

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