should be celebrate a persons life who has been dead over 300 years?
2006-10-27 07:46:30 · 18 answers · asked by ? 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
not any more..and fireworks should be banned.
2006-10-27 07:58:42 · answer #1 · answered by grumpcookie 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No Guy Fawkes is not outdated, but the way of celebrating it is. It is a typical British celebration of the failure of the plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament. The problem now a days is that it coincides with Diwali and Eid, Hindu and Muslim festivals, and, to the great British public, it seems as though we have a solid 6 weeks of sporadic fireworks, often going off intermittently at all hours of the night(s). So lets think of a different was of celebrating Guy Fawkes' failure please.............I'm soo tired.......
2006-10-27 16:45:12 · answer #2 · answered by Jilly 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Guy Fawkes is seen by the Catholic Church as a Martyr. He was murdered for trying to kill a dominating tyrannical protestant King and Government and was executed for doing so. In this country I for one do not celebrate the 5th of November, I commemorate the attempt to liberate Catholics by a gallant man and his fellow hero's.
Kevin, Liverpool, England.
2006-10-27 20:42:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What about one who's been dead for 2000 years?
Guy Fawkes - the only man in history to enter Parliament with honest intentions!
2006-10-27 14:54:46 · answer #4 · answered by twentieth_century_refugee 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Gunpowder plot along with Guy Fawkes remains part of English History and as such should not be forgotten, although the celebration is in recognition of his failure to blow-up the Houses of Parliament. As mentioned already i think Fireworks should no longer be sold to the Public and only used at organised displays.
2006-10-27 16:07:32 · answer #5 · answered by Stephen 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
History is meant to be remembered, so that we don't have to relive it. If that's what Guy Fawkes' Day does for people, then it's doing its job. If it's seen just as an excuse to set a bunch of bonfires without passing along knowledge of who Fawkes was and what he did, then there's no point in celebrating it.
2006-10-27 14:56:18 · answer #6 · answered by jfellrath 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The UK is the only country I know of which celebrates something which failed.
Just wait; we could soon be celebrating 'Withdrawal from Iraq Day.'
2006-10-28 05:18:43 · answer #7 · answered by cymry3jones 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I think it is. It is a remnant of the "anti-Catholicism " of the Reformation Era and the centuries that followed it. In this ecumenical age. it should be replaced by a more unifying theme.
2006-10-27 15:06:00 · answer #8 · answered by Mannie H 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Remember, remember the fifth of November
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot;
I know of no reason why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.
2006-10-27 16:04:23 · answer #9 · answered by Drew 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
yeah I think it is I mean how many children build guys these days they see Penny for the guy as an excuse to knock on peoples doors for money and never have a guy with them
2006-10-27 14:58:05 · answer #10 · answered by paula p 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i didn't think we were celebrating his life or death. Wasn't it his and the other chaps protest and its failure. Bonfire night is a real old fashioned celebration and besides it's my sister's birthday.
2006-10-27 14:58:47 · answer #11 · answered by mom 2 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋