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I bet you are churning the waters over there, Siarlys.  Keep up the good
work.
The thing about Halloween that freaks me out is the HUGE emphasis placed on
it.  We used to trick-or-treat as kids and there was nothing weird going on
that I knew about.  Now it's nearly a federal holiday.  Many of our
neighbors have their homes decorated more for Halloween than anyone nearby
does for Christmas!  And everyone who is a conservative Christian is afraid
of the emphasis placed on the "dark side" of Halloween.  As an aside, I have
a friend that was ritually abused and Halloween is a very dark time for her.
It's a bad time, period.
The solution our family came up with a few years ago has been to rent some
fun family movies (2 or 3), turn out the porch lights and each child gets to
buy a bag or two of their favorite candies.  We don't want anyone to be sad
about missing the candy part of Halloween -- that was my personal favorite
part.
I like the Harvest Festivals some of the schools and churches put on around
here.  Bobbing for apples, dunk tanks, mazes, CANDY, and roasted corn on the
cob, etc.  What could be better?!?
Beats sweating in a costume for 3 hours.  We are still in the 80s here in
the Sonoran Desert.
But now I have a 4 year old who wears Princess dresses all the time and I
would love to "show her off".  What to do... what to do...
Jeanene


----- Original Message ----- 
> P.S. I regret that I have not ignited any provocative conversations
> lately, but I have been engaged in an utterly ridiculous debate at
> ThinkChristian.com about whether it is all right to celebrate Halloween.
> (The short version is, as long as I don't worship the face I just carved
> in the pumpkin, and as long as I don't take the occasion to love my
> neighbor less, I don't know of any reason Jesus would object). I'm also
> posting my longer-winded commentaries at blogspot now, which reduces my
> tendency to share them here.