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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsConservative Christians Want To Replace Halloween With 'JesusWeen'--And Twitter Can't Stop Chuckling
Yes, you read that correctly.
Halloween, also known as All Hallow's Evethe precursor to All Saints Day on November 1is not hallowed enough for the likes of some Evangelical Christians.
Instead, they would prefer to transform the holiday into "JesusWeen."
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
https://www.comicsands.com/evangelical-christians-rename-halloween-jesusween-2655293280.html
Apparently this idea has been around for a while. Found this on DU from 2011
https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x9809422
JohnQFunk
(409 posts)BAPHO-MAS! A day to celebrate the birth of the Age of Reason, the primacy of intellect, and respect for every human!
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lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Is that better maybe?
Maeve
(42,282 posts)Asking for a fiend...
bbernardini
(9,938 posts)"I'll celebrate JesusWeen, too! I can't get in trouble for waving my dick in the wind if I say it's for a religious holiday, right?"
progressoid
(49,988 posts)Retrograde
(10,136 posts)It's still a Holy Day of Obligation in the Catholic Church in the US. The kids can dress up like their favorite saints and go door-to-door offering blessings or prayers in exchange for treats.
hunter
(38,311 posts)... making Halloween's demons seem quit tame in comparison.
JHB
(37,160 posts)"Catholic."
It's evangelicals trying to push this, in particular the most obsessive types, and when it comes to Catholics they're pretty much stuck in The Wars Of Religion days.
wackadoo wabbit
(1,166 posts)I'm going to assume that you have a wonderfully droll sense of humor, and say, "That's hysterical! Thanks for the laugh!"
Retrograde
(10,136 posts)I'm actually interested in saints' iconography - in medieval religious art you can often identify who is who by the accoutrements: St. Lawrence carries a grill, St. Margaret has a dragon on a leash, St. Denis carries his head, St. Stephen carries stones (there's a picture at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco where he's balancing them on his head!), St. Cecelia has a musical instrument - plenty of costume ideas!
When I was in grammar school the nuns let us wear costumes on Halloween, but most of them weren't that creative. Their stand on Halloween and trick or treating was, fine, have fun, don't destroy anything, and remember that you have to be in church the next morning.
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Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Response to Ilsa (Reply #32)
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Wingus Dingus
(8,052 posts)Initech
(100,068 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Volaris
(10,270 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)and gather up some candy for themselves and sweet loving parents. Stand back, this is not about you.
LiberatedUSA
(1,666 posts)All men with erectile dysfunction have trademarked JesusWeen, as in Jesus ween, will ya just work this time?
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)3catwoman3
(23,975 posts)...up on Halloween, as long as it was nothing gross/bloo dy/scary. I usually opted for a cape and peaked hat.
One year, a mom looked at me with a very severe facial expression, and sternly announced, "We don't celebrate the
devil's birthday."
I figured there was no point trying to explain to this person that Halloween is not the devil's birthday, so I simply replied, in as cheerful a voice as I could muster in the face of such flagrant ignorance, "Neither do I!"
progressoid
(49,988 posts)Deuxcents
(16,199 posts)Just cant ruin fun fast enough. As with everything else.. if ya dont like Halloween, dont celebrate.
Those little snowflakes now want to Cancel Halloween!?
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)...they'll want to ban the Christmas tree for being the pagan symbol that it is.
Clearly they are on a crusade to take the fun out of everything.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)If they want to celebrate a more religious holiday, wait a day and celebrate All Saints Day.
Celerity
(43,349 posts)progressoid
(49,988 posts)malaise
(268,980 posts)the pumpkins
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)of prayer and merriment ... Begging at the door grew from an ancient English custom of knocking at doors to beg for a "soul cake" in return for which the beggars promised to pray for the dead of the household ... The refrains sung at the door varied ...
https://www.catholiceducation.org/en/culture/catholic-contributions/all-hallow-s-eve.html
Please good Missis, a soul-cake!
An apple, a pear, a plum, or a cherry,
Any good thing to make us all merry ...
God bless the master of this house,
The misteress also,
And all the little children
That round your table grow ...
Down into the cellar,
And see what you can find,
If the barrels are not empty,
We hope you will prove kind ...
The lanes are very dirty,
My shoes are very thin,
Ive got a little pocket
To put a penny in.
If you havent got a penny,
A hapenny will do ;
If you havent get a hapenny,
Its God bless you
https://www.lyricsforchristmas.com/christmas-carols/soul-cake/
Archae
(46,327 posts)These Talibornagains can't even get his frikkin' NAME right!
It was "Yeshua," not the Greek corruption of the original.
And most "Christian" holidays were stolen from pagan religions, in fact even the birth of "Jesus" should be in spring, according to the Bible.
rurallib
(62,412 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)I'm surprised it didn't turn Mary, Thomas, et al into zombies after touching him, or is a bite required, as in Communion?
Wounded Bear
(58,649 posts)pwb
(11,261 posts)shaking their heads at this one. Fuck me.
Captain Zero
(6,805 posts)nt
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)and exchange of gleeful glances that said if you have to ask you are very far from god's grace. They couldn't explain it to someone so spiritually bereft.
They really couldn't.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Please turn out the lights.
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)And here I was thinking passing out Chick tracts instead of candy was the most evil thing Christians could do to Halloween.
Captain Zero
(6,805 posts)The War on Halloween! Onward Christian Weenies!
AllaN01Bear
(18,194 posts)for all hallows eve . the day after is all saints day. learn your history people . all saints day is a big deal in my church.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/holydays/halloween_1.shtml
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints'_Day
first they wanted to call it harvest, now this ??? .
electric_blue68
(14,891 posts)this bus ad was on a Toronto bus!!! 😂😂😂
I had No Idea! 😆 It'd have made perfect sense that
that was some 'Murica bus.
I read the reply tweets lots of fun there.