Halloween on Sunday troubles some Southerners

[sr_pacifica]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/10/15/halloween.sabbath.ap/index.html

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Some towns around the country are decreeing that Halloween be celebrated on Saturday to avoid complaints from those who might be offended by the sight of demons and witches ringing their doorbell on the Sabbath.

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It is an especially sensitive issue for authorities in the Bible Belt across the South.

"You just don't do it on Sunday," said Sandra Hulsey of Greenville, Georgia. "That's Christ's day. You go to church on Sunday, you don't go out and celebrate the devil. That'll confuse a child."

See what we're up against?

:eyes:

[DarthDem]

1. Reason # 8,254 . . .

. . . why I absolutely detest the Old South . . . . :eyes:

[Bluebear]

2. Let's consult a Chick Tract!

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1053/1053_01.asp

[sr_pacifica]

6. Uch!

Hilarious, yet disconcerting that people really believe that tripe!

[MisterP]

8. I like the 007 grandpa with the eyepatch

and the giddy raccoon-pigtail girl-cretin

[sr_pacifica]

19. I like how grandpa insists the kid has to obey because

the teacher is an authority figure. Then there is a little quote from the New Testament that is supposed to back him up "be subject unto the higher powers":crazy:

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. Check this out

from the Chick tract site

"Case after case has come to us of children in rebellion. In many of these families, the problem can be traced back to the children being exposed to Halloween at a young age. It is hard enough to raise children these days in a Godly way without exposing them to Satan's realm."

So parents, if your teenagers are causing problems, it's because you let them go trick or treating when they were young.

And if it was on a Sunday, you are going to hell.

[Bluebear]

18. Well, that explains me.

[NC_Nurse]

3. Not this Southerner

I don't give a rat's petootie! :D

Bring on the witches and Candy!!!:silly:

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. What do they do on Christmas?

Sit at home with the shades drawn, no tree and beat the kids when they ask why?

It's The New Dark Ages.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

5. My little cousins ages 4 and 8 are not allowed to celebrate anymore .

Yes I fear they have been freeped . They declared to me yesterday that they are not allowed to celebrate Halloween anymore because its the Devil's holiday . To each their own .

[Kanary]

9. Here's what's hilarious.......

"Halloween" was Christianity's way of taking over a pagan holiday, in order to water it down.

Pagans never *did* believe in a "devil", so that all was the invention of the Christians to begin with.

Get the joke?

:)

Kanary

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

17. Yep that is what I told them ! They did'nt know the orgin of the holiday .

Everything to them is the " devil " . But these two kids are more Satan-like ( if Satan actually exists ...) than angelic . Thats the irony .

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

7. This is a numb story.

Who cares if these people are upset? Get over it. Halloween is always celebrated on Oct. 31. Also, I don't know anyone that celebrated the Devil or worshiped Satan on Halloween. Everyone knows it is just an occasion for kids to get dressed up in costumes, go to parties, and eat candy. These people need to chill out.

Why is this on CNN? Can't they get any real stories?

[JCMach1]

10. What a LOAD of pucky...! It's Ramadan here and even the

Muslim kids love Halloween... In fact, there is a similar holiday in the Muslim tradition of the Gulf. Even some of the FUNDY kids participate.

Lighten-up America!!!

Last year we had more kids come to our door than we ever did in the U.S.

:)

[BlueJazz]

12. What's really Embarrassing is that People in ...

..other counties See/Read these kind of stories and must think "Americans must be dumb as a bloody box of rocks"

..Of course they're right...OK ...Half right...

[sr_pacifica]

21. People from other countries

apparently think we are religious fanatics according to a report I heard on BBC a week ago. The common perception is that Americans are a "religious" people. Of course the religion they see is christian fundamentalism.Some immigrants feel the need to join a church to "fit in."

[Carson]

13. Actually, I prefer Halloween(trick-or-treating) to be held on Saturday

My reason is I attend church on Sunday evening and services begin at 6pm. If trick-or-treating was scheduled for that evening, it would cut short my son's Halloween activities.

Thankfully, my town has always had Halloween on a Saturday if the holiday happens to fall on Sunday.

It's not so much for "Ohmigod, it's Satan's Holiday!!" as it is for convenience.

(And I do live in the South, btw)

(On Edit: The rescheduling is done for the same reason as my town (high school and summer league) does not schedule sports games/practice on Sunday or Wednesday evening. Too many families attend church services on those days and would have to choose between sports and church. Again, it's about convenience.)

[LuCifer]

14. man, talk about FREAKS!

And this from me, a punk with a foot tall purple mohawk!

Lu Cifer, can we deport these Bushlickers please!?

[TahitiNut]

15. So, rather than dress their kids as angels and saints ...

... and have them Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF or some other worthy cause, they whine and go freako paranoid. Sheesh! And then they don't give a rat's patootie about non-Christians feeling dissed around Christmas?

Fucking shitheads!

[Solon]

16. What are the Seventh Day Adventists and Jews supposed to do?

BTW: Why the Hell do most Christians celebrate the Sabbath on Sunday and not Saturday to begin with?

[TrueAmerican]

20. But NASCAR and Football are okay?

LOL

[mediaman007]

22. But they'll shop at Walmart...

bet they can't wait to get the ad in the Sunday paper. They might even stop at Walmart on the way home to save $0.24 on lamp shades.

[GarySeven]

23. Thanks for falling for Karl Rove's trick ...

He wants Democrats to be disunited, so you use a news story - written to foment that disunity -- to dismiss and degrade all Southerners.

There are PLENTY of Southerners and liberals in the South, but when you Northern holier-than-thous start looking down your nose at us as if we were animals in a zoo put on earth for the purpose of amusing you, quite naturally we resent the hell out of it. Some of us, like Zell Miller, go off the reservation. The sad truth about Miller is that he is essentially right about the Democrat's abandonment of the South - and the attitude of your correspondents on this board proves that point. What you don't understand, or seem to care much about, is that by derision and stereotype you are alienating a huge, potential resource for liberalism and Democratic politics. Which, of course, is precisely what the Rovians and other wedge-issue politicians wish. Why the HELL don't you just roll over and let Karl rub your belly?

[QC]

24. Preach it, Brother!

The so-called Left (and it's truly pathetic what passes for a Left in this country) is only too happy to do the Right's work for them. Given what is commonly said here and elsewhere by alleged liberals about practically every group in the country except genteel bourgeois liberals, it's no wonder people think Democrats are elitists.

[Maddy McCall]

25. Agree. And the last time I checked the electoral map--the north didn't

look very solidly Democratic, either.

[Shadowen]

26. So, Sandra...

You'd let your child celebrate the devil in other circumstances?

Great parenting. Mwah.