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Have discussed this with many Americans, but it's a much bigger holiday there, so am wondeing what Brits make of it - both Christian and non-Christian.
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What are your thoughts on Halloween?
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TemperateSeaIsland
Mae hen wlad fy nhadau yn annwyl i mi
I'm not into the whole costumes and nonsense but I do appreciate it's significance when it comes to the old Celtic calendar in that it heralds the start of winter and it starts to get really dark. I'll probably have a small party with some friends around a nice bonfire.
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I love Halloween.
I take my kids out every year and watch them go Hypo on sweeties.
(No, I make sure they eat their sweets sensibly).
I regard Halloween similar to Temperateseaisland and celebrate it more as a start to the winter and remembering those that have passed away .
My kids just love halloween for the sugar rush.
I take my kids out every year and watch them go Hypo on sweeties.
(No, I make sure they eat their sweets sensibly).
I regard Halloween similar to Temperateseaisland and celebrate it more as a start to the winter and remembering those that have passed away .
My kids just love halloween for the sugar rush.
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It does seem to be a much more low-key thing in Britain. When I'm away over Halloween- at university or in this case, in Germany, I pretty much ignore it. When I'm with friends and family, I'll maybe do some apple-bobbing, although I've still never been trick-or-treating. And the next day, I'll get pumpkin soup. Mmmmmm pumpkin soup nomnomnomnom.
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No! *does a poor deprived child face* I lived in an area with quite a lot of elderly people who really didn't want visits from excitable children, and we didn't even get many visits ourselves. I guess it just wasn't that popular where I was growing up.
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Let us go into the house of the Lord (Psalm 122)
artybloke
!Oh My!
Sooo...artybloke... when do you start your Diplomatic career? lol
As for me...well... I do not feel comfortable celebrating it but all the same I give the little monsters sweets wrapped around some Christian tracts and the book of John...and tell them about the light of the world...well...what other time of the year do people come to YOUR door to to get tracts?
Whatever happened to celebrating the burning to death of a Catholic terrorist who tried to blow up Parliament?
That's what we want: more burning to death of heretics: that's the British way!
!Oh My!
Sooo...artybloke... when do you start your Diplomatic career? lol
As for me...well... I do not feel comfortable celebrating it but all the same I give the little monsters sweets wrapped around some Christian tracts and the book of John...and tell them about the light of the world...well...what other time of the year do people come to YOUR door to to get tracts?
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I think it's another piece of the mountainous evidence that proves that Christianity is based upon ancient pagan traditions.
Let's face it, without the intervention of Popes Gregory 3rd and 4th, moving the original All Saints Day from the pagan May 13th to 1st November, an already existent pagan holiday, The Feast of Lemures, we would all still be celebrating the incoming harvest.
So, what do I think of Halloween?
Well, firstly, it's spelt wrongly;
Secondly, it's the only time of year I put barbed wire on my front gate, and
Thirdly, I go out, so I haven't got to explain for the thousanth time, to pig-ignorant parents, that they clearly didn't accept their responsibilities when the child was born, so why should I fulfill their roll, and dissapoint a whole load of innocent children, and some not so child like, and educate them for free!!!
Let's face it, without the intervention of Popes Gregory 3rd and 4th, moving the original All Saints Day from the pagan May 13th to 1st November, an already existent pagan holiday, The Feast of Lemures, we would all still be celebrating the incoming harvest.
So, what do I think of Halloween?
Well, firstly, it's spelt wrongly;
Secondly, it's the only time of year I put barbed wire on my front gate, and
Thirdly, I go out, so I haven't got to explain for the thousanth time, to pig-ignorant parents, that they clearly didn't accept their responsibilities when the child was born, so why should I fulfill their roll, and dissapoint a whole load of innocent children, and some not so child like, and educate them for free!!!
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My wife and I make a point of leaving the house as soon as we're both back from work and not coming back until quite late on Halloween. It'll be irksome this year as it's on a Friday, so everywhere will be crowded, but I'd rather put up with queues at the cinema than the constant stream of annoying kids begging.
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brokenandhumbled
Let us go into the house of the Lord (Psalm 122)
Actually I cannot shut up about this...so I am adding this to my earlier post. Usually on this forum I am careful not to offend... but I am more and more coming under conviction for compromising my faith.I cannot do this anymore because it grieves the Spirit.
I will add that I am grieved by how many Christians take part in this. Peoples please think about who you are celebrating... and look behind the pumpkins and the spiders webs and see what REALLY lies behind this day.
Christians... check out 2Cor 6:15.
*rant hat off*
I will add that I am grieved by how many Christians take part in this. Peoples please think about who you are celebrating... and look behind the pumpkins and the spiders webs and see what REALLY lies behind this day.
Christians... check out 2Cor 6:15.
*rant hat off*
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