I'm not sure exactly what our final word is on the whole halloween thing. Sure, costumes are fun, candy is delicious, but there is a lot of not so good stuff that goes along with that. We don't have to worry about it this year, as halloween falls on a Wednesday - we have home fellowship group at our house that night.
Have you noticed how evil and scary the whole celebration is becoming? Every year new horror and slasher movies come out for this season, costumes become more gory, and new "haunted houses" pop up around town. In our neighborhood there are decorations - some simple: orange-and-black lights, jack-o-lanterns, blow-up Frankensteins, white fabric ghosts; some are more morbid: "funny" grave stones, "hands" and "feet" emerging from a "fresh grave." When did that become acceptable?
Jim claims we celebrate halloween a day late - at the candy clearance sales. Jamie claims that Uncle Michael and he are going to be dressed up as pumpkins together. (Not true, but that is what he thinks...) What are you doing for the holiday?
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One family with pre-school age children near work has the replica of a charred human body on a slowly turning spit. As you said earlier, when did that become acceptable? Hallowed murder day?
People are always interested in death (how many books, shows, etc. are about murder or doctors) and the supernatural.
And people like to dress up, have fun and earn millions of dollars selling candy and costumes.
So I predict this holiday will overtake Christmas.
miker
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