The Culture War - Can we just leave Halloween and Christmas alone and go back to 1985?

Question

Can we just leave it the way it was when I was a 7 year old boy?

Answer 1

In 1985 I was 18 and would rather go back to 30, thanks. I remember when they outlawed Christmas carols but Frosty the Snowman was okay. I was very young, but we're talking Steamboat Springs, Colorado (the last bastion of the hippy).

Answer 2

I grew up in a town and a time that had 2 cultures Catholics and Prostestants - We all got (most anyway) our farms from 18th and 19th century land grants from the British Crown

We were talking about a just society and idealism ran high - People felt and said that they owned their little piece of the nation - Vetrans were respected and history was taught and argued about We had the cocky nature of a former British Empire state - Our place in the rulership of 2/3 of the globe

Cops wandered around the streets with a 38 that had a little flap on it and no bullet proof vests they were friendly lived in the nieghborhoods they worked in and did not make a lot of money

Kids went out trick or treating and so on in costumes and stories of elves lepracons and so forth were abundent - There was only main stream christian churches No one ever heard of a tele-evangilist etc

My dad could fis his car 90% of the time by himself and so could most people's dad's

Asking for money was shame full

On the flip side patting some girls butt and saying there there don't worry your pretty little head was as common as "liquid lunches" Drunk driving was a misdemenour - not a serious crime

Fist fights in bars were common (not a police issue) domestic abuse was also not a police issue and so on

Homosexuals were rooted out by the federal police (RCMP) and charged

I understand the urge life in a lot of ways was a lot simpler

But tell me if you and your child were walking and some old guy didn't like the way jr was behaving and smacked the kids butt and made him cry - Would your reaction be "What did you do to deserve that ?" It was the common reaction when I was a child -


I am guessing I am from a different country than you are but I am not that much older than you are

And I do not think for an instance that small town America and small town Canada were night and day different in the 70's

Answer 3

Yes I love Christmas I get 2 weeks off, I love Halloween I'm Catholic

Look our holidays are ours and I think they should remain and people that do not like them just enjoy yourself being on the computer, I grew up with the holidays and I don't care what other people do I will give out candy for Halloween and gifts for Christmas and eat fish on good Friday and Easter baskets on Easter Sunday on labor day, 4th of July if I'm off I bar-b cue chicken and hot dogs. As a kid I had a lot of fun on all holiday events and I'll be dam if all my kids and grand kid don't do the same and you don't have to be a dam Christan or believe in god, but you don't have to be a hypocrite either, because most likely you enjoyed these holidays as a kid and if not its your parents fault.

Answer 4

Halloween is about driving the evil spirits out of the village. That's why there are costumes and "decorations". It is not about greedy kids getting tons of candy, going to drunken parties with slutty girls and horny boys, or defacing or destroying someones property.

Christmas is about celebrating the birth of Christ. For people like me that aren't religious, it is about gathering with the ones you love and enjoying that time together. It is not about buying tons of useless merchandise, spending tons of money that you don't have, or trying to outdo one another on who has the better gift.

Answer 5

We don't celebrate Halloween at our house. Christmas in our family is as it always has been. What other people do is not my concern or my business.

Answer 6

Cool! I was a kid in the 60's and we wore our costumes to school. My best friend was Frankenstein and I went as Igor. I strapped like 2 pillows underneath my costume for a huge hunchback. LOL! I really got into it.

Answer 7

Both holidays have been way overcommercialized. Add to that (and I'm far from being a devout Christian) we've done everything we can to take Christ out of Christmas and put Satan into Halloween.

Answer 8

I could do without Halloween