Boogedy-booogedy, I'm a gonna eat ya!!!
Read the following letter to the Editor from the local excuse for a newspaper:
Halloween is no treat!
To The Editor:
How I long for the beautiful fall season to reflect wholly on the loveliness of coloured leaves, pumpkins, apples, strolls on crisp autumn days -- of life!
Halloween with its witches and occult practices has spoiled the season and is a bridge between good and evil. Surely there is fun in going door to door getting apples and sweets, but Halloween is much more than that. It is a celebration of the occult with its emphasis on death and evil.
Have you seen children backing away from the door or the store decorations, scared and insecure of the skeletons, demonic-looking creatures, witches, etc.?
In Moscow, just a few years ago, a letter was sent to school authorities to warn teachers that "The very fact that Halloween activities contain elements such as the cult of death, rejecting death, personification of death and evil spirits produces a destructive effect upon the psychological, moral and spiritual health of students."
Unfortunately, many of our Canadian teachers are no longer preaching the love and security that faith in the Most High God and his Son, Jesus Christ, brings, but by their celebrating of this "high holy" day for Satanism, and by encouraging their students to do occult practices using Harry Potter's material for their guide, are preaching faith in the occult and its practices instead.
It seems that paganism is the "in" thing, and the Judeo-Christian roots of our Canadian culture are being eroded.
Mrs. Marilyn Hardy,
Lower Coverdale
Alllllright, I'm a gonna Mental Floss ya!
"the loveliness of coloured leaves... of life!" the leaves are dying, lady, get a hint!
I don't know anything "occult" about trick-or-treating, its just getting dressed up, lots of giggles with friends going house to house to your friends and neighbors and getting candy, some parties and fun, that's all it is.
As for Halloween being a high holy day for Satanists, well maybe it is, but in this context you are equating Satanists with Witches and Pagans. We are no more Satanist than Muslims and Buddhists are!
Witchcraft and Paganism existed long before Jesus and Christianity.
In our beliefs, we practice a seasonal faith living in harmony with Nature. We look to Nature in all her changes as a source of inspiration, celebration and worship.
Satan is a Christian concept. There is no Satan is our beliefs.
At this time of year, we celebrate the last of the harvest, we watch as Mother Nature prepares for her rest during winter. It is a time of death, which becomes a time of re-birth in the Spring. The Wheel of the Year continues to turn.
Trees as they shed their leaves become skeleton-like, which reminds us it is a time to remember and honour those who have come before us: our ancestors; and also our loved ones who may have passed during the year.
Now what's so evil about that?
Read the following letter to the Editor from the local excuse for a newspaper:
Halloween is no treat!
To The Editor:
How I long for the beautiful fall season to reflect wholly on the loveliness of coloured leaves, pumpkins, apples, strolls on crisp autumn days -- of life!
Halloween with its witches and occult practices has spoiled the season and is a bridge between good and evil. Surely there is fun in going door to door getting apples and sweets, but Halloween is much more than that. It is a celebration of the occult with its emphasis on death and evil.
Have you seen children backing away from the door or the store decorations, scared and insecure of the skeletons, demonic-looking creatures, witches, etc.?
In Moscow, just a few years ago, a letter was sent to school authorities to warn teachers that "The very fact that Halloween activities contain elements such as the cult of death, rejecting death, personification of death and evil spirits produces a destructive effect upon the psychological, moral and spiritual health of students."
Unfortunately, many of our Canadian teachers are no longer preaching the love and security that faith in the Most High God and his Son, Jesus Christ, brings, but by their celebrating of this "high holy" day for Satanism, and by encouraging their students to do occult practices using Harry Potter's material for their guide, are preaching faith in the occult and its practices instead.
It seems that paganism is the "in" thing, and the Judeo-Christian roots of our Canadian culture are being eroded.
Mrs. Marilyn Hardy,
Lower Coverdale
Alllllright, I'm a gonna Mental Floss ya!
"the loveliness of coloured leaves... of life!" the leaves are dying, lady, get a hint!
I don't know anything "occult" about trick-or-treating, its just getting dressed up, lots of giggles with friends going house to house to your friends and neighbors and getting candy, some parties and fun, that's all it is.
As for Halloween being a high holy day for Satanists, well maybe it is, but in this context you are equating Satanists with Witches and Pagans. We are no more Satanist than Muslims and Buddhists are!
Witchcraft and Paganism existed long before Jesus and Christianity.
In our beliefs, we practice a seasonal faith living in harmony with Nature. We look to Nature in all her changes as a source of inspiration, celebration and worship.
Satan is a Christian concept. There is no Satan is our beliefs.
At this time of year, we celebrate the last of the harvest, we watch as Mother Nature prepares for her rest during winter. It is a time of death, which becomes a time of re-birth in the Spring. The Wheel of the Year continues to turn.
Trees as they shed their leaves become skeleton-like, which reminds us it is a time to remember and honour those who have come before us: our ancestors; and also our loved ones who may have passed during the year.
Now what's so evil about that?
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