This is the first Halloween time that I am actually a bit afraid. I’ve heard that Satanists are running amok, kidnapping children and causing all sorts of hell on earth. Years ago, I would just sit outside and be present for the festivities, but I don’t like to give out candy. It just encourages the evil theme of Halloween. These poor kids need Jesus in their lives, not potentially harmful candy eyeballs and skulls (play cannibalism?). I feel like I need to be out there passing out the Good News and praying for folks, because prayer to an almighty, just and Sovereign God is the last thing on people’s minds on Devil’s Night.
Satan has grown very powerful over the decades that we as a nation have permitted him to. The way things used to be back in the old days will never return. I know they had Halloween back then as well, and it was still an atrocity and an affront to God Almighty, but child sacrifices and threats of clown attacks didn’t happen out in public. Mankind has always been a sinner, and remains a sinner until they are gloriously saved by the Holy Spirit of God, and one has to WANT that to change. God won’t forgive your sins unless you ASK Him to. He will never force Himself on you. He gave us FREE WILL TO CHOOSE. It’s a decision and a change of mind on YOUR part to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ to be born again.
But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
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And that's all fearmongering does, folks: it makes people afraid. Halloween is part of the Christian liturgical calander. You are meant to celebrate life by mocking death to show it you aren't afraid. It is, hands down, my favorite Christian holiday because I feel life is worth living to the fullest and that the loss of fear of death should embolden.
People like this just make me more sad than angry. They want to live a life of cowardice.
I’ve heard that Satanists are running amok, kidnapping children and causing all sorts of hell on earth.
Oh FFS, they said that back when I was a teenager during the 1980's Satanic Panic. It isn't any more true now than it was back then.
Look, there are no roving bands of Satanic cultists out trying to kidnap children for use in ritualistic Satanic sacrifices. There just aren't hidden Satanic cults in every small community. It's just a bunch of urban legends.
Got to confess, he got us, last Halloween we were truly running amok, our locacl christian popul;ation must`ve been devastated after our "no guests, we`ll just lay on the couch with 5 liter wine jug(we can get these in our local supermarket for something about 12$, talk about a cheap and it is a decent wine), a fully supplied bong and entire night to binge watch star trek DS9"(I know, I`m hopeless when it comes to ST but you`ve got to understand, it`s one of those things my husband got me into and so hard that I can now never understand how could I ever seen star trek as boring nad not the most awsome mainstream sci-fi ever). Oh the terrors we unleashed that night!
"I’ve heard that Satanists are running amok, kidnapping children and causing all sorts of hell on earth."
I've heard that Voldemort is making chemtrails using the dark side of the force. Why aren't you concerned about that?
God won’t forgive your sins unless you ASK Him to. He will never force Himself on you. He gave us FREE WILL TO CHOOSE. It’s a decision and a change of mind on YOUR part to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ to be born again.
Funny how you support freedom of choice when it gives you an excuse to be sanctimonious.
Years ago, I would just sit outside and be present for the festivities, but I don’t like to give out candy.
Dear gods, you were the weird one who gave out bible tracts that every neighborhood kid hated.
Well, you could sit outside passing out Chick tracts. Oh wait, you did that once, and nobody came back the next year, right?
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Dear gods, you were the weird one who gave out bible tracts that every neighborhood kid hated.
Then when their house was egged because they were giving out bible tracts instead of candy, they blamed it on Satanists. Kind of like that one King of the Hill episode where the self-righteous do-gooder managed to get trick-or-treating banned.
"Play cannibalisim"?
Darwin damn it my fellow atheists and satanists, I thought that we supposed to encourage real cannibalisim, get with the program people we can't be backsliding on our most holy night, the next thing you know people will forget that we kick little old ladies and take candy from babies.
"Satan has grown very powerful over the decades that we as a nation have permitted him to."
Good. God's been doing jack shit for us and his most ardent followers have been raising literal holy hell against anyone who's not white, straight, male, and Christian. Maybe the devil will do a better job.
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Satan has grown very powerful over the decades that we as a nation have permitted him to.
So the whole Satan problem is apparently very recent and restricted to the United States? Wow, what a broad view of the universe. Of the 7.9 billion people on earth, Satan has chosen to concentrate on the 319 million in America (= 4%) and make his power a result of their behavior. Interesting.
Satan's pretty dumb, isn't he?
Most Satanists are peaceful atheists, you silly bint. It's Christian fundies who run amok, kidnapping children and causing them all sorts of Hell on Earth (usually called "conversion therapy").
You do know that Halloween is basically about scaring AWAY evil spirits, right?
Satan is as imaginary as your deity, dearie.
Urban legends of child sacrifices and threats of masked adults were rampant back then too.
If you want people to believe your side of the story, it's good to show all the evidence in your favor, and make your side appealing. God has never done this, he had a bunch of uneducated goat herder record some bullshit (or rather goat-shit) misogynistic "history", and that's it.
Why not give out Gideon Bibles or Chick Tracts to the kids who come calling; that will ensure you few to no repeat visits in coming years. You probably have to repeat your action every five years or so, to keep it fresh in the memory of Trick-or-Treating kids.
This is the first Halloween time that I am actually a bit afraid.
I'm surprised, and a little disappointed, that you haven't managed to whip yourself into that much of a frenzy until now.
"I know they had Halloween back then as well"
Samhain.
"2000 AD"'s series "Slaine" mentioned an old Celtic festival, therefore when a comic writer can do research prior to incorporating such into a fantasy scenario based on Irish legends, you know your entire argument has been killed by that story's eponymous hero; among many others.
...but he didn't think it too many.
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We give your 'God' free will to be our bitch. [/Judges 1:19]
But as for Soviet Britain, your 'Lord' will serve us .
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