Ever since I have been in the public school system someone always seems to be "against" celebrating Halloween. Many people have gotten so over board with religion that they forbid their kids to dress up and go trick or treating. Halloween has nothing to do with Celebrating satan's birthday or anthing like that. Some of our family friends have raised their kids in a homeschooling enviornment (which I think is ridiculous) but they have also gone as far as to tell their kids (5 and 7) that other people are bad for celebrating this holiday. How can it be that some people are so small minded to deny their children one of the greatest joys of childhood. Halloween is about celebrating fall, changing of the seasons, dressing up and scaring little kids, and who can forget CANDY!! This is just another example of how religion has taken such a strong hold on peoples lives.
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Actually, Halloween is a celebration of the New Year even if most don't know what Halloween originally was (and still is to many). But yeah, it ticks me off that people can be so ignorant. They need to get their heads out of their asses and do a little research for cripes sake.
"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us." -Marcel Proust
DO research. That is PRECISELY why they choose not to celebrate it. I think before we go attacking people for their beliefs we should remember that Halloween is not the be all and end all of a great childhood. -_-
If that's the case, then they wouldn't celebrate Christmas, Easter, or Groundhog Day. In fact, the only "true Christian" holiday would be St. Patrick's Day because that was supposedly the day St. Patrick eliminated the Pagans from Ireland. All the others were put in place to "Christianize" Pagan holidays. Also, Halloween's "Christian" roots come from All Saints/Souls Day, hence "All Hallow's Eve."
Even the so-called "Christian" traditions, such as the Christmas tree, wreath, candles, and Easter eggs, and the more secular symbols of the Easter bunny and chicks have their roots in the Old Religions.
-- quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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amen to that! but dont knock the homeschooled kids, we're not all bad :P