A group was out on the sidewalk this evening passing out fliers casting halloween in a very negative light. The information on the fliers wasn't even accurate.
My question is, why do these people do this? I mean, if someone believes differently than you do, and you want to convert them, this doesn't seem to be the way to do it. And if your goal isn't to convert them, then what's the point of urging them to act as you do in this particular? Clearly, halloween isn't the same thing today as it was centuries ago, and even at that, it was merely of a different religion, not necessarily an evil one.
So I don't get it- why the big hoopla every halloween?
2007-10-10 15:45:34 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
robert, I didn't say they should stop. I simply wanted to know their logic. Since freedom of speech has nothing to do with the question asked, your answer is nil.
2007-10-10 18:07:50 · update #1
They are cheap and don't want to spend money on the candy and costumes. Otherwise they would live it up with the rest of us.
2007-10-10 16:12:32 · answer #1 · answered by Zombie Princess, (2012) 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Halloween isn't even a religious celebration. Well, it used to be ("All Hallows' Eve"), but it really isn't anymore. It's more of a secular thing, like St. Valentine's Day and St. Patrick's Day have become. Those two were originally to celebrate the feast days of two great Catholic saints, but now it's all about drinking and getting presents. I think the thing about Halloween for those kinds of people is the costumes and trick-or-treating. I guess it has something to do with demons.
A.F.
2007-10-10 15:53:43 · answer #2 · answered by Atticus Finch 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
uncomplicated experience tells me that once somebody supplies out fliers , they go with to coach human beings on the subject of the fact. what's incorrect with that, as quickly as you supply human beings the fact then they could make up their techniques to go with precise from incorrect, yet a individual that doesn't' comprehend precise from incorrect is only misplaced. no person is status there with a gun forcing human beings to do something. And that's our activity as Christians to warn the the remainder of the worldwide earlier the disaster. Halloween is celebrating evil and evil isn't something to be performed with. We see lots of people who took those issues gently coming interior the church and desirous to be introduced from those demons, for some it would be too overdue. How can we take it gently, while devil is attempting to kill , thieve and ruin. Are we meant to stand via and watch and experience others to be destroyed via what they do no longer comprehend ??? do you comprehend that demons can enter into your physique only via gazing a horror action picture ? All they go with is a prepared individual to purpose out something new and a physique. human beings greater valuable start up waking as much as the fact and quit questioning that each little thing they do is without result.
2016-12-14 13:59:36 · answer #3 · answered by tietje 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Desi,
Freedom of speech is granted to those that appose a "holiday" like halloween.
If a person wants to protest halloween and not push a religion that is their option.
Freedom also includes proselytizing.
Freedom is not stopping those you disagree with.
Atheists and anti-christians need to learn freedom isn't forcing their agenda on people.
2007-10-10 16:08:16 · answer #4 · answered by robert p 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are probably idiots who think dressing up and getting candy is "evil" because they have some old fashioned, probably inaccurate, mental picture of Halloween being this big evil thing and they think the world has to follow what they believe.
2007-10-10 15:52:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I no longer celebrate the fun evening because of all the evil events some do on that evening. People do these evil things in the name of Satan, i.e. arson, killings, poisons in candy for kids, and so on. For me, they take away the fun of this tradition.
2007-10-10 15:55:28 · answer #6 · answered by mesquiteskeetr 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have no idea... I guess some of the fundies latched onto the fact that Halloween (or Samhain if you are of my religion) is pagan, and they must think it's some evil holiday or something... who knows. Nobody takes them seriously anyway.
2007-10-10 15:49:22 · answer #7 · answered by xx. 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
They think they are trying to save you from witches. Christians don't exactly have a great history of dealing with witches.
2007-10-10 15:50:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm a skeptic, I love Halloween! How do you like my costume.
2007-10-10 15:49:06 · answer #9 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No logic at all, just paranoid superstition.
2007-10-10 15:52:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋