DEATH TO HALLOWEEN!

[Leo 9]

DEATH TO HALLOWEEN!


12:00 - 22 October 2007



Children roaming darkened streets dressed as ghosts and ghouls.

Lanterns swinging in the chill night air.

It's an image familiar to all of us.



Youngsters across the North-east will be setting out guising on October 31.

To some their Halloween escapades are nothing more than harmless fun. To others they are a nuisance.

But there are those who see the event as something much more sinister - a festival cloaked in good cheer but laced with evil.

The Evangelical Alliance urges caution.

Set up in 1846, it is the largest body serving evangelical Christians in the UK.

Its spokesman, Alistair Stevenson, said while Halloween appeared to bring people together in fun, in reality it was a "celebration of the dead and of evil."

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http://www.thisisaberdeen.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=148760&command=displayContent&sourceNode=148586&contentPK=18742790&folderPk=85349&pNodeId=148317

[Richard Steele]

1. Puritanism: the dread fear that someone, somewhere, is happy. nm

[SocratesInSpirit]

6. LOL

Beautiful! :rofl:

I have a fundy aunt and uncle who are terrified of Halloween. That describes their attitude perfectly...about Halloween and life in general.

[u4ic]

2. Dead people are evil?

Then again, there is Dick Cheney...

[nomorenomore08]

3. dude's name is Alistair... how ironic...

[redqueen]

8. Hah... isn't it?

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[Indi Guy]

4. Halloween is a time when we can teach our children to laugh at evil & death

And this is bad how - Evangelicals?

[Leo 9]

5. Here's an entirely different article with the same headline.

Death to Halloween

As the longtime American tradition becomes more commercialized, will Charlotteans turn to el Día de los Muertos?

BY KAREN SHUGART
Published 10.26.05


REST PEACEFULLY, mixed media by local artist Lise Barnett

John Hairston Jr. is standing in front of a painting at Pura Vida, the hip cross-cultural shop, gallery and performance space on Central Avenue. "I've always wanted to celebrate it," says Hairston, an artist, as he looks at the death-themed art that might appear macabre to the unknowing eye. "I've always had a thing about death."

"It," to Hairston, is the celebration of the Mexican tradition of Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead. Inside Pura Vida, one of the more diverse hot spots in Charlotte, Hairston and dozens of others have gathered for an early commemoration of the three-day celebration, which allows the living to honor the dead through festivities at once somber and joyous between Oct. 31 and Nov. 2. But the crowd gathered on this night appears to be mostly white, privileged and of an intellectual bent.

Contrary to popular belief among some North Americans, el Día de los Muertos is not an exercise in the morbid or the grotesque, even though the tradition's chief symbols include skulls and skeletons. But Hairston is a longtime fan of the tradition, and to some degree he has been ever since he learned about the Day of the Dead in elementary school.

"It's almost like a Christmas kind of holiday, where it's sacred and it's religious," he says. "I thought it was really neat."

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http://charlotte.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A78409

[Marrah_G]

7. Screw them...seriously

They steal the Holy Days of their ancestors after murdering millions of them, turn their own Gods into the Devil because some asshat in Rome tells them to and then have the fucking nerve to bitch about it.

I truly despise Fundies when Halloween comes along.

[redqueen]

9. I like you.

:loveya:

[Marrah_G]

10. Woowooo

:loveya:

[Leo 9]

13. Make Halloween a National Holiday!

Make Halloween a National Holiday!


by T. Mike

Friends, isn't it past time that we made Halloween, a national, government-approved holiday? Halloween is a wonderful, magical event when the whole family gets together and has a terrific time, no matter what their race, religion or sexual orientation. Why should this marvelous time of community and family bonding be forced to hobble along in its current, semi-observed, legal limbo?


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http://www.vgg.com/tp/tp_101501_halloween.html

[Drunken Irishman]

11. As some of you saw with my Halloween decorations, I love Halloween.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=7063437&mesg_id=7063470

Halloween is my favorite holiday and I go all out -- much like people go all out for Christmas. I love haunted houses, horror movies, costumes and the whole feel of fall. If I'm a Satanist because I enjoy this holiday, so be it!

[redqueen]

12. If I had a house and the money,

mine would be much the same. :hi: