Holier Than Thou

Apparently some Bible thumpers are rather ignorant, not to mention hypocritical. I know that's a fairly obvious observation, but specifically I'm referring to this issue. Some folks are all up in arms because Halloween is going to be on a Sunday.

This quote pretty much sums up the whole idiocy of this attitude right here: "'It's a day for the good Lord, not for the devil,' said Barbara Braswell, who plans to send her 4-year-old granddaughter Maliyah out trick-or-treating in a princess costume on Saturday instead."

First things first. Halloween has nothing to do with the devil. Never has. What we call Halloween orinally began as the Feast of Samhain, an Irish harvest festival. It was later incorporated into Christian culture as a part of the All Saint's Day celebration (November 1). The reasoning was a practical one . . . the Church annually saw many converts revert to their pagan ways during certain times of the year, due to various pagan celebrations. So, the Church began incorporating elements of those pagan rituals into their own calendar in an attempt to keep converts from straying. The Easter Bunny, Easter eggs and timing of Easter were "borrowed" from the Feast of Esther, a pagan fertility celebration. Anywho, the point is, the Feast of Samhain and Halloween never had anything to do with the devil (Paganism and Satanism are mutually exclusive--pagans do not believe in the devil and devil-worshippers don't believe the polytheistics of pagans--nor is paganism inherently "evil"), never celebrated the devil, and the claim that it is "a day for the devil" is based in pure ignorance.

But more importantly is the hypocricy displayed. Apparently, Halloween is "too evil" to be celebrated on Sunday, but "not evil enough" to forgo celebrating on Saturday. I mean, if Ms. Braswell believes that Halloween is a day "for the devil" and therefore shouldn't be celebrated on a Sunday, why will she let her granddaughter celebrate Halloween on Saturday (and presumeably on any other day of the week, Monday through Friday)?

Plus, I'm betting that quite a few of these folks who are proclaiming Sunday as "the Lord's day" and therefore too holy to celebrate Halloween on have absolutely no problem "dishonoring the Sabbath" each and every week by performing household chores, watching football/baseball/auto racing, drinking beer to the point of drunkenness and cussing at the TV or in the sports stadiums. And I won't even get into the whole argument about Sunday not really being the Sabbath (if it is, then we celebrate Easter on the wrong day of the week!)