Halloween canceled in Michigan....

[5SpeedBird]

Halloween canceled in Michigan....

Well not really but it was canceled in some schools. Why???

It may offend a small minority of those who practice the witches religion.

Yep, Christians have been trying to shut Halloween down for decades.
But of course they are all nut balls.

But the respectful witches religion wishes must be upheld???

In a country where majority rules.
Why is it the smallest minority gets all the say???

[speedracer95v6]

Seems silly to me.

[BLLDOGG]

i have never once in my life thought about actual witches during halloween. this is just stupid.

[jc Kyle]

^ just did [img]smile.gif[/img]

[crazyralph]

http://www.camarov6.com/ubb/ultimate...c;f=6;t=024283

[GrigoryRasputin]

Im a Christian and I never tried to shut down Halloween. Be careful with your generalizations. In fact 99% of the Christians I know havent ever tried to "shut down" Halloween.

[Flowbee V6]

those schools are ganna get TP'd and egged so bad

[Loochy88]

Originally posted by 5SpeedBird:
Yep, Christians have been trying to shut Halloween down for decades.
But of course they are all nut balls.

Heh, yeah, all of them... right.

Actually you will run into few christians who dont celebrate it, and those who dont are pretty hardcore and take halloween the wrong way.

The very word Halloween means all hallows eve (aka the day before all saints day).

Our modern celebration of Halloween is a VERY distant descendant of the ancient Celtic fire festival called Samhain. Those crazy Celts did not actually have demons and devils in their belief system. Some Christians describe this ancient Halloween as a festival in which the Celts sacrificed human beings to the devil or some super evil demonic god of death and fire. They also say this Samhain their holiday was named after was the god of the dead, but noone has ever really proved that.

Next thing you know we'll be hearing that Christians are trying to do away with christmas.

[Blazing_Firebird]

It's most oftentimes not right, but the religious right gets just about everything that they want.

I just really don't understand who the church thinks that they are by poking their nose into things that other people choose to practice, just because they disagree with it.

Note: This is not generalizing that all Christians are that way, it's just sad that a few present such a bad example for the rest.

[imported_admin]

FYI...

The Story of Halloween

Halloween is one of the oldest holidays with origins going back thousands of years. The holiday we know as Halloween has had many influences from many cultures over the centuries. From the Roman's Pomona Day, to the Celtic festival of Samhain, to the Christian holidays of All Saints and All Souls Days.

Hundreds of years ago in what is now Great Britain and Northern France, lived the Celts. The Celts worshipped nature and had many gods, with the sun god as their favorite. It was "he" who commanded their work and their rest times, and who made the earth beautiful and the crops grow.

The Celts celebrated their New Year on November 1st. It was celebrated every year with a festival and marked the end of the "season of the sun" and the beginning of "the season of darkness and cold."

On October 31st after the crops were all harvested and stored for the long winter the cooking fires in the homes would be extinguished. The Druids, the Celtic priests, would meet in the hilltop in the dark oak forest (oak trees were considered sacred). The Druids would light new fires and offer sacrifices of crops and animals. As they danced around the the fires, the season of the sun passed and the season of darkness would begin.

When the morning arrived the Druids would give an ember from their fires to each family who would then take them home to start new cooking fires. These fires would keep the homes warm and free from evil spirits.

The November 1st festival was called Samhain (pronounced "sow-en"). The festival would last for 3 days. Many people would parade in costumes made from the skins and heads of their animals. This festival would become the first Halloween.

During the first century the Romans invaded Britain. They brought with them many of their festivals and customs. One of these was the festival know as Pomona Day, named for their goddess of fruits and gardens. It was also celebrated around the 1st of November. After hundreds of years of Roman rule the customs of the Celtic's Samhain festival and the Roman Pomona Day mixed becoming 1 major fall holiday.

The next influence came with the spread of the new Christian religion throughout Europe and Britain. In the year 835 AD the Roman Catholic Church would make November 1st a church holiday to honor all the saints. This day was called All Saint's Day, or Hallowmas, or All Hallows. Years later the Church would make November 2nd a holy day. It was called All Souls Day and was to honor the dead. It was celebrated with big bonfires, parades, and people dressing up as saints, angels and devils.

But the spread of Christianity did not make people forget their early customs. On the eve of All Hallows, Oct. 31, people continued to celebrate the festivals of Samhain and Pomona Day. Over the years the customs from all these holidays mixed. October 31st became known as All Hallow Even, eventually All Hallow's Eve, Hallowe'en, and then - Halloween.

The Halloween we celebrate today includes all of these influences, Pomona Day's apples, nuts, and harvest, the Festival of Samhain's black cats, magic, evil spirits and death, and the ghosts, skeletons and skulls from All Saint's Day and All Soul's Day.

[FirebirdGT]

Originally posted by Loochy88:
Next thing you know we'll be hearing that Christians are trying to do away with christmas.

http://users.aol.com/libcfl/xmas.htm

http://www.demonbuster.com/christmas.html

[Niky]

That's just stupid. What happened to "Land of the free"?? Those who want to celebrate Halloween should be able to, just as those who don't want to celebrate shouldn't have to! They should have the choice. Banning Halloween celebrations in some schools takes away people's choice, and that's not fair!

My mom ... years ago when I was in 3rd or 4th grade ... was 'trying' a new religion and forbid us to take part in my school's Halloween celebrations. The school was totally cool with it, made it an 'excused absence' that did not count against us. When we did Halloween things in class the weeks before the actual day, we were givin alternative projects.

The whole 'not allowed to celebrate Halloween' thing didn't last for more than a month, as the next year I was a witch ... haha. Still ... we had the choice.

Not cool, Michigan .... not cool at all!