I quite agree, but then the same can be said of Halloween. People aren't really celebrating any pagan festival, but its children getting candy and having fun dressing up in costume.
All Hallows Eve.
Discussion in 'Fundamental Baptist Forum' started by The Scribe, Oct 18, 2007.
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Actually, a bonfire is no different than celebrating Halloween. The tradition comes from another pagan tradition.
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However, in the same way that "Christmas" seems to come into the shops earlier and earlier each year, the same has happened with Guy Fawkes night, with fireworks being set off for weeks before 5th November.
Sadly, both 31st October and 5th November are increasingly seen by some young people as excuses for loutish, even dangerous behaviour. -
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Since Christmas is the Christian replacement for the day set aside to worship the sun god, could we come up with A Christian replacement for halloween?
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I just finished serving candy to the neighbor's kids.
I was dressed as a Blue M&M.
Goes to prove the old maxim:
You are What you Eat!
I've been eating lots of blue M&Ms lately :laugh:
Yum!
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We celebrated Halloween tonight. My daughter tossed on a sheet with holes in it and went to a church festival as the haunted mattress (see Spongebob). Meanwhile, my son and I had hamburgers on the grill. My daughter won some bagels in the cakewalk and brought them home, so we celebrated with bagels and cream cheese. There's nowhere nearby to get lox, but I would have gotten some if I could have. I love lox and bagels with cream cheese, onion and tomato.
Except for the absence of lox, this is all in line with the traditional Druish celebration, right? -
"Barf!"
"Not in here you don't mister! This is a Mercedes." -
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Anyway, we got a permit to block off our major city street for the whole block (the chruch is in the middle of the block), requiring the rerouting of a public transit bus route and police support. We were given funds by a local hospital to rent four of those inflatable bouncy things for kids to go in, and had other game stations - ring toss, face painting, miniture golf, etc in between. We had a Christian band set up, and fed anyone who came by with their kids donated hot dogs (from Hatfield meats), Coke products (from the local Coke affiliate), and snack cakes (from TastyKake). There must have been 1,000+ people served. The Gospel was preached from a loudspeaker, and by folks talking in the crowd one-on-one with tracts. I spent most of the evening catching little ones coming down a mini-inflatable slide. Parents who thought they would have to go knocking on doors and worrying about what was in the candy or who would answer the door, spent a safe and happy time with their kids at the church in the name of Jesus. I heard nothing but positive feedback from neighborhood people I didn't know. And just that afternoon, the schools in the area were on lockdown because a robber who shot a cop in the face was on the loose. How great it was to offer the kids a safe place to be on the heels of that. -
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the local Chinese restaurant here, replete with it's butchered English signs over the food, has one:
"Fried dumping."
npet....PLEASE don't eat there.... -
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Who would eat at the "house of shin?"
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Maybe they serve the Pu Pu platter...
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