What happened to the Halloween haters?

I think they were chucked into the pit of hell. I went trick or treating last year. I went to the offices in this building with candy. Kind of a reverse trick or treat. I think I’ll do it again this year.

It’s early, wait a week or two.

There’s this christian fundamentalist crows that sees anything imaginative and fun as a threat to their religion. Thrown in witches (wicca) and ghosts (which cannot be explained by their gods), and you have a perceived threat to religion.

I call it the Rolodex effect – stuff like this keeps showing up over and over again,

I used to work with a woman who had a young son. She told me her church had some kind of party on Halloween night where they gave candy away and it kept the kids from going trick-or-treating. I don’t think the kids wore costumes because the church felt like the costumes were symbolic of devil worshipping or something like that. I’m not sure what religion she was, maybe Baptist.

They are focusing on the evil gays now, I guess.

I think the Puritans ended all that after burning the last witch.

@zenvelo they only think they burned the last witch. Many of us got away.

They all moved on to trying to convince folks there is a war on Christmas.

Yes, I want to eliminate the demonic holiday of Halloween, and I refuse to issue any marriage licenses to same-gender couples.

They had more luck repackaging it as “trunk-or-treat”. Kids dress up in nice, clean, safe, non-scary costumes of their favorite Disney character (maybe, some don’t even dress up), parents drive them to the church parking lot and they kids get candy out of everyone’s trucks and get a nice sermonizing as an added bonus.

There are still people in religions who don’t participate in Halloween. Some secular people don’t either for various reasons. Some of the secular group might have some sort of philosophical reason, or they might be like my husband who just really doesn’t like the holiday. I disliked Halloween when I was “younger.” Teens through twenties I really had no affinity for it, but now I kind of like it. Things change.

A lot of evangelicals co-opted it by coming up with anti-abortion horror houses to scare the bejeezus out of little kids.

They have “Trunk or Treat” in a neighboring town, but it’s not put on by the church, it’s in a municipal lot, put on by the town. They have a sign up so that there are not a zillion kids from out of town going there. It looks like fun. If we lived in that town, we’d do it. I think it’s because the houses in the town are far apart and so this makes it a bit safer.

There’s a core group of people who believe that Halloween promotes evil heathenism. As far as I’ve ever seen, Halloween promotes nothing but the candy industry and tooth decay.

If someone has religious objections to Halloween, that person might be shocked to learn that Christmas was created to replace pagan celebrations of the winter solstice.