For those who celebrate Halloween.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You can also try giving out raisins or apples. That keeps them away, and is progressively more effective each year.

My parents tried this when I was younger. Our lawn was covered with raisin boxes the next morning.

It's the Law of Cure -- things get worse before they get better. Trust me, they won't be back after year 2 of raisins.

If your intentions are to eventually not have kids knocking at your door instead of offering a healthy alternative to candy, why not just turn off your lights? Why do you have to be annoying and spoil the night?

If you lift your dour mask just high enough to read clearly, you'll see this post was a light-hearted joke. (Great mask, BTW. Where did you get it?)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can also try giving out raisins or apples. That keeps them away, and is progressively more effective each year.

My parents tried this when I was younger. Our lawn was covered with raisin boxes the next morning.

It's the Law of Cure -- things get worse before they get better. Trust me, they won't be back after year 2 of raisins.

If your intentions are to eventually not have kids knocking at your door instead of offering a healthy alternative to candy, why not just turn off your lights? Why do you have to be annoying and spoil the night?

If you lift your dour mask just high enough to read clearly, you'll see this post was a light-hearted joke. (Great mask, BTW. Where did you get it?)

I got it from you (since you had plenty laying around!). Didn't you notice it?

[Anonymous]

Well, to go back to the bloodthirsty beginnings of this thread, I'd like to correct the folks who noted that Christianity "adopted" pagan traditions. Actually it "co-opted" pagan traditions - i.e., pretended to adopt, but actually with a christian spin, mainly becuase they couldn'd prevent the peasants from following their original religion, so they just adopted and reinterpreted.

OP, take a look at Christmas sometime. The history of pine tree usage will chill you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can also try giving out raisins or apples. That keeps them away, and is progressively more effective each year.

My parents tried this when I was younger. Our lawn was covered with raisin boxes the next morning.

It's the Law of Cure -- things get worse before they get better. Trust me, they won't be back after year 2 of raisins.

If your intentions are to eventually not have kids knocking at your door instead of offering a healthy alternative to candy, why not just turn off your lights? Why do you have to be annoying and spoil the night?

If you lift your dour mask just high enough to read clearly, you'll see this post was a light-hearted joke. (Great mask, BTW. Where did you get it?)

I got it from you (since you had plenty laying around!). Didn't you notice it?

Oops, forgot to add, don't leave any great masks lying around if you want the cure to work. (The suckers just pick them up and mock you with them before trashing the yard with raisins, and then they def. come back for more the next year.)

[Anonymous]

I'm Jewish. We're handing out matzo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a child, there were many years that we did not celebrate Halloween. My parents felt that there was enough evil in the world already, why make a night out of doing it on purpose? In my teens, on Halloween we would have Harvest Parties and then on the actual night of Halloween we would go out into the neighborhood and pass out Christian literature to all the trick or treaters.

Was it overkill? maybe. Did it ruin our lives? no.

As an adult with three kids who attend a Christian school, I do feel weird sometimes about "glorifying" in some way, death, skeletons, etc...but that being said we still dress up on Halloween just nothing dead or scary.

I'm sorry, but it's this part about the Christian (and other evangelizing religions) literature that really bothers me. Why do you need to hand out Christian literature to non-Christians on a secular/non-Christian holiday? Why can't people have their own religion (or non-religion) that is different from yours? There are many paths to God and it seems awfully rude/egotistical to assert that yours is the best (and by inference, that their religion is inferior).

[Anonymous]

20:00 poster here.

The tracts that we gave out at Hallowen were an informational piece, giving the history of Halloween, pointing out that evil is real and that Satan has a certain amount of power, yet also revealing that God loves mankind so much that he sent his only Son to die for their sins.

Its a piece of paper that says this and it's not like its done in a rude manner.

Of course people can have different religions but each religion-no matter what one you are-think that your religion is THE religion. Right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:20:00 poster here.

The tracts that we gave out at Hallowen were an informational piece, giving the history of Halloween, pointing out that evil is real and that Satan has a certain amount of power, yet also revealing that God loves mankind so much that he sent his only Son to die for their sins.

Its a piece of paper that says this and it's not like its done in a rude manner.

Of course people can have different religions but each religion-no matter what one you are-think that your religion is THE religion. Right?

I am the PP who wrote the post you responded to - and actually I DON'T believe that my religion is THE religion. As I said, religion is only the path one takes to reach union with the Divine. There are many paths that lead down the same road, and each person has their own preference. I will agree that many people in the world believe that their religion is THE religion, but that is really why there is so much violence in the world. If more people were more willing to accept that their religion is not the ONLY path to God, there would be much more love and much less hatred and evil in the world. Some of the most evil things in history have been done in the name of religion.

I will also say that had I received your informational brochure I would have been quite offended since it is clearly proselytizing about one religion. There are non-religious ways to get out the message that there is evil in the world without having to use Christian-centric language. I am not a Christian, but I think the tenets of Christianity are really wonderful - love thy neighbor as thyself, do not judge lest ye be judged, compassion, love for all God's creatures, etc. However, I think the way it (and other evangelical religious branches/sects) gets interpreted/acted upon by many people is not in keeping with these principles.

[Anonymous]

Anyone else giving out matzo?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a child, there were many years that we did not celebrate Halloween. My parents felt that there was enough evil in the world already, why make a night out of doing it on purpose? In my teens, on Halloween we would have Harvest Parties and then on the actual night of Halloween we would go out into the neighborhood and pass out Christian literature to all the trick or treaters.

Was it overkill? maybe. Did it ruin our lives? no.

As an adult with three kids who attend a Christian school, I do feel weird sometimes about "glorifying" in some way, death, skeletons, etc...but that being said we still dress up on Halloween just nothing dead or scary.

I'm sorry, but it's this part about the Christian (and other evangelizing religions) literature that really bothers me. Why do you need to hand out Christian literature to non-Christians on a secular/non-Christian holiday? Why can't people have their own religion (or non-religion) that is different from yours? There are many paths to God and it seems awfully rude/egotistical to assert that yours is the best (and by inference, that their religion is inferior).

All religions are pagan anyway.

[Anonymous]

I guess we could try a tradition from the bible and put lambs blood over our doors to keep our fist born children from being killed by god. That is so much more cheery. It really speaks to the generosity and kindness of a murderous god. And it is so much more fun than handing out snickers.

"Hey kids! We get to slaughter a lamb today and smear their blood on our houses". Sounds like wholesome fun for the whole family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:20:00 poster here.

The tracts that we gave out at Hallowen were an informational piece, giving the history of Halloween, pointing out that evil is real and that Satan has a certain amount of power, yet also revealing that God loves mankind so much that he sent his only Son to die for their sins.

Its a piece of paper that says this and it's not like its done in a rude manner.

Of course people can have different religions but each religion-no matter what one you are-think that your religion is THE religion. Right?

Could you maybe stick a lollipop onto it or something? Tootsie Roll?

[Anonymous]

OP, you want to know what's REALLY scary? Burning women at the stake who were thought to be witches. Visit Salem sometime and think about religion. Nice.

[Anonymous]

Self-righteous Christians scare me much more than ghosts and vampires do.

[Anonymous]

Aside from the religious origins of Halloween, I do know a few Jewish people who do not like/celebrate Halloween because historically many Pogroms happened on Halloween-Jews being kidnapped, tortured, etc.