Satan’s Big Day?

[meow2u3]

Culture Wars Don’t Take a Holiday on Halloween


Oct. 31 — When you dress your toddler like a Power Ranger tonight and take him trolling for candy, the nation's culture wars likely will be far from your mind. But for a growing number of Americans, celebrating Halloween has become taboo.

Sheila Nazario is one of them. The 35-year-old from Plainfield, N.J., won't take her 3-year-old trick-or-treating or even put him in a costume. She celebrated Halloween as a child, but rejected the holiday later in life when she became an evangelical Christian and Oct. 31 seemed to take on a more menacing tone.

"It was something God wanted me to do," she said. "Halloween represents a pagan holiday to us. When I was younger, Halloween wasn't safe but a bit safer. People use it now as a way to do things that aren't nice."

Across the country, parents like Nazario are "opting out" of Halloween celebrations in schools and communities because they see the holiday as a glorification of paganism and out of step with their values.

It's not just evangelical Christians, either. Some Jewish parents reject Halloween because of the holiday's pagan and Christian roots and instead celebrate Purim, a Jewish festival involving costumes and candy that started on March 17 this year. Conservative Muslim parents also opt out of Halloween because the Koran forbids celebration of non-Muslim holidays.

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http://abcnews.go.com/sections/US/Living/halloween031031-1.html

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What will the Commie Whacko Religious Right think up next? Outlawing Christmas?

[Another Bill C.]

1. Easter's next

Easter falls on the Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox. Guess who celebrated fertility in that timeframe. It wasn't the early Christians.

[SiobhanClancy]

2. What's wrong with these people???

It sounds like this mother had HER fun and celebrated Halloween,but now she has seen the light so her poor kids have to pay for it. They might as well outlaw Christmas,as you say...because its roots are pagan,too(this is bad?)I thank God(and Goddess)for my easy-going Catholic parents,who believed in celebrating EVERYTHING.

[ikojo]

3. Fundies where I work are going to

"Hallaluyah" Parties at their churches...

I am Jewish and I LOVE, absolutely LOVE Halloween! I always have loved this day.

Most kids like to play dress up and Halloween presents a perfect opportunity for that.