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If you ask me it's propaganda and I can't believe people have the nerve to hand this garbage out. You can be certain that if ever any child related to me got this for Halloween I would be bringing it right back to where it came from, along with a few words. What would you do if your child got this pamphlet? How would you react? and Do you think it is ok for people to give these things out to children during Halloween?? I Don't think Halloween is an appropriate time to try and target children with religious doctrine..
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PS A friend of mine had this given to her child for Halloween... I scanned it in you can read it at the links above. It is similar to one I got as a child which I still remember to this day.. It was about sin and they used a leopard as an example with his spots being the sins. Disturbing..

2007-11-04 04:59:15 · 48 answers · asked by Kelly + Eternal Universal Energy 7 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

So some of you see no problem with it? So if I decided to hand out pamphlets about Satanism, or whatever that would be ok too?? Yeah people can hand out whatever they want, but it's Halloween night not "indoctrinate children to your religion" night.. Haysoos, I am disappointed in your answer.. big time. I guess if I hand out anti-religious pamphlets next Halloween you will be ok with that then? Is it really right to use Halloween as a platform to preach your own beliefs?? I don't think so at all... I respect other peoples right to teach their children as they see fit, and I refuse to puch my beliefs on others or their children in any way shape or form.. Ill stick to candy on Halloween..

2007-11-04 05:15:56 · update #1

This was in Canada.. and I can't believe people are saying that it's ok to let people give out whatever they want for Halloween, it's your children for crying out loud and you really think it's acceptable to allow people to give out whatever they want to your kids?? Think about that for just a minute... porn, drugs, alcohol.. what if someone who believes marijuana should be legal and everyone should smoke it gives your kid a pamphlet saying "Costumes are cool, but smoking drugs is awesome!" come now there has to be a line drawn somewhere..

2007-11-04 05:22:09 · update #2

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Wow - that's one up on what my niece got when I took her trick-or-treating for Halloween one year. Instead of candy at one house, someone dropped in her treat bag a little orange card that said "Don't be TRICKED by the Devil, TREAT yourself to the word of God" and had a Bible verse on it - I don't remember which as this was a couple years ago. And it took awhile to try to explain to her why someone would do that when we were back at the house examining her candy and found it.

Come on people! How many little kids are really thinking about things like God and the Devil when they're trick-or-treating? They're thinking about being dressed up as their favorite fictional or fantasy character and getting a bunch of candy! Let kids be kids and have some fun while they are still young.

Believe what you want to believe, follow whatever religion you do - that's fine...but Halloween is not the time to feed your religious propaganda to small children. Nor is it ethical for these types of people to try to interfere in the religious upbringing of a minor child, that which may be against the child's parents' wishes. If you didn't want to participate in the trick-or-treating thing for the kids, give them a piece of candy and admire their costumes, then you should have left your porch light off.

I didn't know which house it came from, part of me wanted to go say the above to these people, as nicely as possible...but it's really not worth it, so even if I did know which house it was I probably would have left it alone. There are enough arguments about differences in religious views already. We explained this as best as we could to my niece and then threw out the card, let it go, and moved on.

You say that you got something similar as a child and remember it to this day - so the giver in your case seems to have achieved at least part of their goal - it stuck in your head. Hmmmm...as well I suppose the first sentence on that little orange card from my niece's treat bag stuck in my head...but it didn't change my spiritual views, or hers, or her parents...nice try.

2007-11-04 05:28:53 · answer #1 · answered by Crystal clear 7 · 2 1

I don't have any kids, but if I did, I probably wouldn't particularly care. It's all a part of free speech. Just so long as I'm allowed to give out pamphlets on atheism or whatever other religion or ideology I like, so what? Any child I had would be properly trained as a rational freethinker anyway, and I'd make sure they weren't gullible enough just to believe something they got on a pamphlet on Halloween.

2007-11-04 08:14:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I think its wrong, there would be a full on riot if you had been handing out agnostic/athiest pamphlets. Hell you'd probably make the local news. Actually,if you have a liberal media source where you are, take it to them and i bet theyd report on it, like the local alternative newspaper, etc. If the kid remembers which house gave them paper instead of candy (or with candy, whatever) i would print up the pagan history of halloween and put it in their mailbox.

Its pretty pathetic that they've taken their recruiting to chasing little kids. And IM the heathen thats going to burn in hell, pfffft.

EDIT: wow. I just read thru some of the other answers, you people, make me sad. Because you really believe the crap falling out of your mouth. What does religion have to do w/ being a good parent? Even if she has discussed religion they are young and impressionable and that would send the totally wrong message. Plus, since alot of you fundies are so anti-halloween, why not just butt out of it? Let kids be kids, instead of turning it into something political. I wouldnt be so bothered about what it said but i'd be bothered that someone in my neighborhood feels they have the right to make my kids favorite day of the year into a debate meant for people older, and make me have to have serious educational discussions w/ a 6 year old while she's dressed like a power ranger when she asks me why heaven is awsome. Give it a rest.

2007-11-04 06:10:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2 1

If your kids watch TV (or ever leave the house, for that matter), they are being propagandized almost constantly -- it's called advertising.

Any parent that teaches their child to believe everything someone says is cripling their child.

If I had kids, and some moron handed one of them that, I'd ask them what they thought about it, and respond to what they said. Where we'd go from there would depend on their level of intellectual sophisitication at the time.

I would certainly make clear to them that there's no such thing as heaven or god; that if Jesus existed, he died a long time ago, and so on.

I'd welcome the opportunity to help my child learn how to think for themselves.

If the child who had been given this had never been encouraged or allowed to do so before, that's child abuse.

Children need to learn that there are people who tell false things, and they shouldn't automatically believe everything anyone says or writes.

Edit after reading the second link: I'd also take advantage of the contradictions. God gave his only son; yet god and Jesus are in heaven. So he didn't lose his son, did he?

Anyway, I think the idea that no child should ever have to deal with people telling them wrong things is misguided (responding to your point about "it's cool to smoke drugs"). There ARE people who will tell your child to do bad things. That's why it's important to not teach them to do everything anyone tells them to do.

If you think a parent can completely control all the ideas a child is exposed to, that parent is WRONG. But if it were possible it would be unwise; eventually that child will be on their own, and they need to learn how to think for themselves BEFORE that time.

2007-11-04 08:59:19 · answer #4 · answered by tehabwa 7 · 0 0

I think this is very interesting.
Most Christians I know would not even bother putting Halloween and and their religion together, so this seems to be a new trend of evangelizing to children the "blessing and gift of their lord Jesus Christ". rubbish.
I never went trick or treating ( was raised pentecostal), so I never had the opportunity to get this. It irritates me as well. Halloween is so many different things to different ppl. To pagans, its a mock of their ceremony of samhain, to Christians ( and Muslims/Jews) is a celebration of the devil , but to most ppl it's simply a children's holiday filled with candy and spooky. I understand your frustrations now only because I recently left Christianity and embraced theism . So now I understand what frustration it must be to receive unwanted BS.
Christians will target children anytime , because they believe their information is THAT important. Tracts annoy me in general.

WOW-they make Jesus out to be a straight up stalker! He has a big house, his book is the bible and he wants you to let him in your heart. Be his child Then you give them your name and address so they can send you free stuff. If Jesus wasn't this religious figure, I'm pretty sure you would be telling your children to stay away from strange men saying they will give you great free stuff. Sounds abit like pedophilia!

But just have a discussion about religion with your children. It can be as easy as pie.

2007-11-05 01:49:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Well sorry, but I disagree. In the USA, we have freedom of speech and freedom of religion. We have a right to pass out candy or whatever we want. If my kids went trick-or-treating and got a tract about Satanism/Atheism/whatever, I would talk with them to ensure they know that Satanism (or whatever) is against God and not what the Bible teaches. Then I would throw it away and avoid that house the next year.

Now if my kids received something relating to porn, drugs, or alcohol, that would be endangering the welfare of a child and that's very illegal. I would report that to the police immediately.

But you know, by getting so upset about that and then advertising their tract online just tells them that they struck a nerve, and it's further spreading their message.

2007-11-04 09:33:34 · answer #6 · answered by kaz716 7 · 0 1

The reason there are so few cases is because the vast majority of people are immune. If everybody stops vaccinating their kids then before long you will see a lot more cases. Even if vaccines cause autism (they don't, but for the sake of argument), what makes your kid so special that he gets to be one of the ones who doesn't have to have the vaccine? Why should all the other kids be the ones who have to bear the burden of potentially getting autism, for the sake of avoiding a much more devastating outbreak of some preventable disease?

2016-04-02 04:25:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I'm Christian, but handing out stuff like that is just WRONG! Give the kid some candy and let them go about their evening. Halloween is not the time to target kids like that.

2007-11-04 05:13:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3 1

I find it interesting that someone saying heaven is cool is sooooo disturbing to you.
Your children will hear about God it is inevidable and they can accept or reject God or any teaching about God.
You are the parent and free to discuss your beliefs or lack of same with your children at every opportunity.
It would be impossible to keep your children in the dark forever.
There is no harm done by telling children about God.

2007-11-04 05:18:25 · answer #9 · answered by djmantx 7 · 2 1

Same thing kind of happened to us. Only we didn't get some cute, colorful, work of art with some stupid propaganda....we got an actual mini-bible that teaches the "word of god" and all that crap....I actually almost said..."what, Christians don't hand out candy?" LMAO!!

I put it in my burning bowl for Samhain and made a resolution to never, ever go Christian and to keep to my Pagan ways.

2007-11-04 05:12:48 · answer #10 · answered by witchy boy1989 3 · 4 1

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