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http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0...ed=networkfront

 

 

Maybe they're right. Maybe Halloween customes are too scary.

 

So from now on, all women with hour glass figures shall be required to dress in something more inviting - like French maids.

 

..., or in their Birthday Suits!

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Ridiculous!

 

Next they'll say a bunch of people talking about a bunch of dead romans is weird.

Harry Potter is scary though. Radcliffe's voice still hasn't broke, that's scary. :D

 

vtc

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When I was a kid, people made their own costumes out of old sheets and what not. Chalked up their faces with colored chalk. Filled a long stocking with chalk, crushed it, and went around whacking fellow delinquents and buildings with it. Kids carried a piece of chalk to decorate, i.e., despoil, other kid's outfits. The most we ever bought was a mask. Pumpkins were the real thing. We had a real nasty 'trick' ready, (such as rotten eggs), when we went 'Trick' or 'Treating'. No one would dare to give a kid a sabotaged fruit.

 

Now I see parents escorting their urchins during certain set times. Late teen thugs still at it. On the odd occasion when they do ask T or T, and you respond Trick, you usually get an inane blank stare.

 

No imagination; no fun.

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Mr Bond said the costumes, based on characters such as fairies and witches, would still promote fun without encouraging antisocial behaviour.

 

What is he thinking??? Fairies are not only extremely antisocial, they're downright sociopathic. Look at Tinkerbell -- she wanted to MURDER Wendy.

 

Seriously, leave it to the prissy, do-gooder adults to suck all the fun out of a holiday that belongs to us kids. (I refuse to grow up.)

 

-- Nephele

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Ha! Well listen up, guys and gals! Yep - the hypocritical CofE thinks Halloween too spooky, yet persists in giving its backing to one of the most barbaric bloody festivals the world has ever known: Bonfire Night! Yes - let's get the kiddies round the big fire and chuck gunpowder in the air, and we'll all watch an effigy of some poor old sod burning to a crisp. Nice custom.

 

"Some costumes are scary. They are really horrible, with blood and gore. We get subjected to that enough in our lives and we should keep children as young as possible," she said.

 

But as for recalling the barbaric death of a man who was hanged, drawn, quartered and his entrails flung on a fire is not in any way spooky and gory at all! By all the gods....

 

Sorry - it's getting to that time again. I loathe Bonfire Night. I would replace it officially with Halloween tomorrow if I were PM.

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I dont disagree with The Augusta on much, but I think bonfire night is great. Bangers in dustbins - making bazookas out of carpet tubes and biscuit tins and shooting rockets at each other - the fun was endless! But isnt it in fact part of the same festival as haloween? For centuries pagans had fire festivals at around the endof October, and I suspect that 'splitting' of it into two different things occured but recently.

 

I agree with the CofE that commercially bought costumes have gone over the top in terms of goryness, and that a level of tast/bad taste should be agreed by thinking people. But, the church should remember that the re-packaging of all things pagan as evil, creepy and to do with death was actually down to themselves in the first place, and early mediaeval attempts to frighten people away from non-christian beliefs.

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...and early mediaeval attempts to frighten people away from non-christian beliefs.

 

As an outside observer, it appears to me that the Church has been slipping for centuries.

 

In the past they would frighten people away from dissenting views with deliciously lurid tales of demons and hellfire.

 

Now, with this latest Halloween costume campaign, they merely bore folks stupid by blowing sunshine up their sheets.

 

-- Nephele

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The church has been trying to suppress those pesky pagan practises for millennia, plopping churches on top of temples and reassigning 'holy 'days to muffle 'unholy' ones: hence the Christmas date of 25 December, the birthday of Mithras, not Jesus.

 

But we never seem to succeed. *sigh!* :ph34r:

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The church has been trying to suppress those pesky pagan practises for millennia, plopping churches on top of temples and reassigning 'holy 'days to muffle 'unholy' ones: hence the Christmas date of 25 December, the birthday of Mithras, not Jesus.

 

But we never seem to succeed. *sigh!* ;)

 

Heretic! :ph34r:

 

:lol:

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