RE: One of the worst chick tracts ever
October 29, 2016 at 5:26 pm
(This post was last modified: October 29, 2016 at 5:26 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(October 29, 2016 at 10:25 am)Doubting Thomas Wrote:(October 29, 2016 at 1:30 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Isn't that point of view of Catholics? They don't celebrate Halloween on 31 October because they think it's sacrilege and do it, I think, in February.
Not sure what you mean there. As a Catholic child I often celebrated Halloween. Of course, the Catholic church had to coopt the holiday and turn Halloween into "All Saints Day" on Nov. 1, making it a holy day of obligation so you'd better get your butt to church for an hour on Halloween night or the next morning or burn in Hell. As a kid I always hated that because wasting an hour in church on Halloween night meant all the good candy would be gone by the time you got out there.
Ah, how great it is to not feel obligated any more.
Yeah in US Halloween is very big holiday and Vatican is far away, so they get away with it. I was more talking about European Catholic countries, like Italy or Germany.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
