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anysiaI read on CNN about southern bible belt groups being unhappy with October 31st falling on Sunday. That Halloween (All Hallows Eve, Samhain) is the day of the devil, and should not be celebrated on 'the lords day'. That it is a "Day for the lord, not for the devil". They want the holiday celebrated on the preceeding Saturday instead as it 'offends them to have it celebrated on the sabbath".
I guess they forgot that the 31st did this same dastardly deed in '99, and will probably do so again. Also, according to their own religious tenets/dogma all days are the Lords day, not one specific day. Another item, what about Jewish people that hold their sabbath on Saturdays? Won't they be offended? And if kids going out Trick or Treating is bad and evil on Sunday, wouldn't it be just as bad and evil on Saturday?
It's is a day/night to remember the dead, when many feel the veil between the living and the ones that have gone before is at its' thinnest, taken over and renamed All Hallows Day (Contraction Halloween, aka the day after All Saints Day) by Catholics to pull pagans into the 'new religion' (Christianity). It is not the 'day of the devil' no matter how fundies try to say it is.
I guess they forgot that the 31st did this same dastardly deed in '99, and will probably do so again. Also, according to their own religious tenets/dogma all days are the Lords day, not one specific day. Another item, what about Jewish people that hold their sabbath on Saturdays? Won't they be offended? And if kids going out Trick or Treating is bad and evil on Sunday, wouldn't it be just as bad and evil on Saturday?
It's is a day/night to remember the dead, when many feel the veil between the living and the ones that have gone before is at its' thinnest, taken over and renamed All Hallows Day (Contraction Halloween, aka the day after All Saints Day) by Catholics to pull pagans into the 'new religion' (Christianity). It is not the 'day of the devil' no matter how fundies try to say it is.
