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Avoid Halloween!
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#31
RE: Avoid Halloween!
October 25, 2014 at 12:05 pm
THIS is the funniest thread I have read in forever. Kudoes to all the smart-ass responses (even those that make fun of my faith) because you guys really made me laugh.
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#32
RE: Avoid Halloween!
October 25, 2014 at 12:11 pm
(October 25, 2014 at 12:05 pm)graciesings Wrote: THIS is the funniest thread I have read in forever. Kudoes to all the smart-ass responses (even those that make fun of my faith) because you guys really made me laugh.

Having said that - your claim the christ is the "Truth" is actually a LIE on your part

The christ is a BELIEF - not a truth. You are probably old enough to be able to know the difference between the two words - and there is NOTHING that proves that the christ is more than a MYTHICAL religious figure no more true than zeus. THERE is not a single document or item we have from the supposed time of the christ that even mentions ITS name.

And so - you are simply LYING for your religion as well
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#33
RE: Avoid Halloween!
October 25, 2014 at 12:34 pm
(October 25, 2014 at 12:05 pm)graciesings Wrote: THIS is the funniest thread I have read in forever. Kudoes to all the smart-ass responses (even those that make fun of my faith) because you guys really made me laugh.

Why should you laugh? This is what your religion teaches.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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#34
RE: Avoid Halloween!
October 25, 2014 at 12:40 pm
(October 23, 2014 at 9:54 pm)Christian Wrote: Halloween has strong roots in paganism.....
So does Christmas.

And Easter.
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#35
RE: Avoid Halloween!
October 25, 2014 at 1:33 pm
(October 25, 2014 at 12:34 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: Why should you laugh? This is what your religion teaches.

Religion can be interpreted in many many ways... those in service to the religion are not somehow 'beyond' this facet of subjectivity.

If religion taught but one thing: it would be as though the world itself taught but one thing.
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#36
RE: Avoid Halloween!
October 25, 2014 at 2:37 pm (This post was last modified: October 25, 2014 at 2:37 pm by Dystopia.)
I don't go to Halloween because it's not celebrated here, not because I think it is tied to paganism. It seems fun the way Americans do it. To be honest, I don't even know what day Halloween is, it could be today and I wouldn't be aware.
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#37
RE: Avoid Halloween!
October 25, 2014 at 3:22 pm
aww but Jack Chic says it is the Satan's birthday, we HAVE to celebrate that
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RE: Avoid Halloween!
October 25, 2014 at 5:03 pm
(October 25, 2014 at 1:33 pm)Alice Wrote:
(October 25, 2014 at 12:34 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: Why should you laugh? This is what your religion teaches.

Religion can be interpreted in many many ways... those in service to the religion are not somehow 'beyond' this facet of subjectivity.

If religion taught but one thing: it would be as though the world itself taught but one thing.

Perhaps I should clarify. Its what the bible teaches
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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#39
RE: Avoid Halloween!
October 25, 2014 at 5:13 pm (This post was last modified: October 25, 2014 at 5:17 pm by JeffofGallifrey.)
ThomM, if you wish to debate Christianity in general, feel free to PM me. I'll gladly debate you, (I hope I'll have time for that in addition to homework) but I don't want to detail this thread.

(October 25, 2014 at 12:34 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote:
(October 25, 2014 at 12:05 pm)graciesings Wrote: THIS is the funniest thread I have read in forever. Kudoes to all the smart-ass responses (even those that make fun of my faith) because you guys really made me laugh.

Why should you laugh? This is what your religion teaches.

I understand that a lot of Christians are very anti-Halloween because to them, participating in it means worshipping satan....

I know that some of that happens, but I don't think your average kid in a Superman costume is participating in a satanic holiday. I roll my eyes whenever someone starts going on about how Halloween is worshipping the devil... Because usually anyone who says that is going to make a mountain out of a molehill.

I see Halloween as a symptom of an entertainment focused culture.
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RE: Avoid Halloween!
October 26, 2014 at 7:29 am (This post was last modified: October 26, 2014 at 7:31 am by Violet.)
(October 25, 2014 at 5:03 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: Perhaps I should clarify. Its what the bible teaches

The bible contains an overwhelming number of statements... but it also asks questions. It is not in the 'teaching' of the bible that it creates believers: it is in the learning of the individual indoctrinated within an institution or coming to (or away from) faith on their own terms. Smile

There are over 40,000 sects of documented religious thought. Plenty of these come from the Torah, and plenty more from the 'New Testament'. Clearly, the bible does not but one thing teach.
(October 25, 2014 at 5:13 pm)graciesings Wrote: I see Halloween as a symptom of an entertainment focused culture.

Marketing and consumerism have certainly improved our holidays. Skunk
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