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Halloween too scary?
BillieTheBot
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Though I'm rather ambivolent to large parts of this article's message, the things that struck me as particularly retarded are the following excerpts:
Well the first thing that struck me was
i) Halloween is a pagan festival - what has the Church or Christianity got to do with it?
ii) The point is that there is no lighter side of the festival! It's about evil spirits and whatnot knocking about!
But this one was the best line in the whole thing
Hasn't quite grasped it has he? Let's put a Muslim spin on Yom Kippur! Let's put a Hindu spin on Ramadam! What a fucking moron. No wonder Church congregations are down with fools like this spouting some unintelligeble nonsense from the pulpit.
Thoughts?
Though I'm rather ambivolent to large parts of this article's message, the things that struck me as particularly retarded are the following excerpts:
The Rt Rev David Gillett, the Bishop of Bolton, says the "more horrific" of masks prove too scary for many children. With the Mothers' Union - a Christian parenting group - Bishop Gillett is backing a campaign called Halloween Choice to promote the lighter side of the festival.
Well the first thing that struck me was
i) Halloween is a pagan festival - what has the Church or Christianity got to do with it?
ii) The point is that there is no lighter side of the festival! It's about evil spirits and whatnot knocking about!
But this one was the best line in the whole thing
Bishop Gillett wants a shift away from horror character masks, like Hannibal Lecter, towards the Christian celebration of good over evil.
Hasn't quite grasped it has he? Let's put a Muslim spin on Yom Kippur! Let's put a Hindu spin on Ramadam! What a fucking moron. No wonder Church congregations are down with fools like this spouting some unintelligeble nonsense from the pulpit.
Thoughts?
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Now if we tried to put a christian spin on a muslim/jewish etc celebration all hell would break loose
so why does it seem ok to do it to pagans?
Because they're basically defunct as a religion/grouping.
Lots of things are pagan based and Christains just put a spin on it, Christmas for one.
I heard a story a few years back, not sure if what I'm saying is exactly what the man told me but apparently Pagans used to go around houses with dead red robins as some ritual, Christains then said that the robin is red because when Jesus was on the cross a robin tried to eat the nails out and the blood spilled on it's chest, hence the symbolism of the red robin so that ritual shouldn't be practiced anymore. Pretty catchy eh?
still, it's silly, nothing to do with the christian church and quite frankly none of their buisiness!
A festival based on evil spirits... scary? NO SHIT!
Next they'll want to make horror movies unscary.
True, edited films piss me off so! Same with books and games... taking bits out... just doesn't help anyone.
Haha TBH, censorship if a pointless afair, as it just drives to people to think "Whats IN that if its so bad? I must get it!"