HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Strangely enough I don't think I'm dressing up or getting drunk today - it's my friend's birthday, I'm going to celebrate with her :)
So I'll pretty much be on my best behavior - this girl doesn't know a fraction of my ..."hobbies".
So today will be going out in public and behaving, which isn't bad a lot of the times, it's nice to do that and feel a little more normal.
So I had to do something here for Halloween!
This guy got my interest (humor!)

 "Halloween is a sinister day with occultist roots. As we move along in the last days an increasing number of people are realizing that Halloween is a pagan worship day. It is day that honors false gods, demons and Satan. I have no desire to enter into the worship of false gods nor honor the devil. I hope after considering this study you will agree and decide NOT TO CELEBRATE HALLOWEEN. Put Ephesians 5:11 into practice, "...have NO fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove (expose) them."

And then he continues on to say,

• HALLOWEEN ALTERNATIVES

"I have come to believe that Christ is not honored by celebrating Halloween. I have shared my conviction with my family. As a result, we have replaced the celebration of Halloween with something completely unassociated to it. We make it a family night and do something special together. You can see that I do believe in the PRINCIPLE OF REPLACEMENT. I believe that Romans 12:21 teaches it. "Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good."

Certainly remove the bad. Explain to your children why you are not celebrating Halloween any more. BUT then replace it with something that will glorify God (I Corinthians 10:31). Be creative. Make what you do more fun, yet honor Christ. Have a harvest party where you focus on Christ the creator and his provisions for you. Have a Christian video party. Have a glory gathering where Christian songs are sung and the word is preached. Get a group together and go from door to door (not dressed up) and pass out Gospel tracts then meet for a time of fellowship afterward."

            -- Pastor David L. Brown, Ph.D.

 Okay, I understand he's a pastor and has a Ph.D and what not and he seems pretty excited and all, it may be true that myself am not a religious person but I couldn't imagine explaining to my children --

Yes, every other child in the neighborhood gets to run around in a costume - a special one they wear only once a year - get tons of free candy - but yeah, tonight we're going to HAVE A CHRISTIAN VIDEO PARTY and instead GO DOOR TO DOOR PASSING OUT GOSPEL TRACTS ( and when they offer us candy, don't take it!) 

Oh boy, would that well over with the children.

I mean, I respect all forms of religion and people who follow it, believe what you wish, but no matter what origins of Halloween have been derived from occult and paganism or whatever devilspeak have you, these days it's become nothing of a childish holiday - for fun, just how Christmas went from the Birth of Christ to Macy's sales and superficial gift trading. 

AND YES - He makes a point in his article, people get hurt on Halloween. (So be careful tonight guys!), But that makes it no different from how people get hurt every other day. I really wouldn't go as far as to say people are widely encouraged and prone to violence just because of Halloween.

Halloween is meant to be scary and what not, but it's always advertised to be FUN above all and I really think such acts of violence of deeper origins - media, people, whatever -- Halloween is...

I mean I know it's stupid but I don't remember once in my childhood saying "Trick or Treat" where I didn't always get treat. (The Pastor talks about how Trick or Treat originates from how people used to dress up in animals skins to fool demons - if that didn't suffice, they would leave them a "treat' (of food or something) to please them. If that didn't work, they'd "trick" you by casting an evil spell on you and your home.)

But yeah, that's my ranting a little - if you want to read more about the Pastor's thoughts on how evil Halloween is, you can read it here: The Dark Side of Halloween - Pastor David L. Brown, Ph.D 

Btw - he also thinks:

• Other things that lure children into the occult --

1. Black & heavy metal music

2. Fantasy Role playing games

3. Slasher/horror movies & sadistic pornography

4. Reading occult & satanic literature

AHAHAHAHA :( I love all those things, fuck yeah World of Warcraft! LOL 

And now: People getting hurt on Halloween...

1.People who would not ever involve themselves with the occult at any other time will experiment at Halloween parties with seances, Ouija boards, levitation, rituals and ritual sex.

2.Did you know that Devil's Night (the night before Halloween) is the worst night of the year for ARSON FIRES? In Detroit, Michigan in 1983, 450 fires were set by pranksters. To add to the trauma, more personal property is defaced and public buildings damaged at this time than any other time of the year. Law enforcement officials have told me that grave yard desecration are becoming a real problem at Halloween.

3.What about Trick-or-Treat? In Milwaukee, Wisconsin hospitals x-ray candy received while "begging" to be sure no foreign objects, like pins or razor blades, were in the goodies.

4.Malicious Halloween pranks even kill people, like the lady who had a pumpkin dropped on her car from an overpass. It went through her window and caused her death.

5.Let me conclude this section by telling you of a recent video taped interview that we did with a Wisconsin policeman. He told us of a woman who had come to them and reported that her two children had been sacrificed in Satanic Halloween rituals. She was an occult member and wanted out of the group.

OH GOD...

I have to end the update here, But I will add more crimes, because I have to go!