Happy Halloween.
Halloween, of course being a holiday rooted in Celtic tradition, which brings to mind other great Celtic celebrations such as PaulPierceMass and Larry Bird Tuesday. It is an evil, evil day filled with the most horrendous darkness:
Evil Exhibit A:
Fear this evil. It is unchristian.
Unlike the celebrations of Thanksgiving and, of course Christmas which are considerably more christian holidays.
Thanksgiving, a holiday whose current formation finds its history (partially) in Plymouth in the early 1600’s where religious outcasts from across the Atlantic were educated in the ways of sustainable agriculture by the people native to that land, thereby allowing them to eat healthily and grow strong enough to eventually eradicate those native people. We celebrate this by gorging ourselves with too much food and drink.
Christmas, of course, is the celebration of Jesus birth; savior of mankind from sin and self; friend to the poor and downtrodden, enemy of unjust power systems, whether they be religious of economic. We celebrate His birth by increasing our credit card debt.
“Now, Justin, these are over-reaching generalities.”
Yes, you’re right. Let’ get back to the original point… Halloween is evil.
Evil Exhibit B:
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Don’t forget that we celebrate Christmas on the winter solstice, a day celebrated by many non-Christian religious groups and people, even though the birth of Christ most likely did not take place in December! Woohoo!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_solstice#Observances
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Long Live Larry!!! I think we should take two more days off of February and add it to October so we can ‘Larry-ween” on October 33.
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