# ****Apostates violate rules

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Posted by SpudWitch [SpudMama] on November 01, 1999 at 13:13:45 {2gTL9dbN6kLnU7DNQgZIPGEmg6dhnA}:

In Reply to: ***Apostates violate rules posted by Farkel on November 01, 1999 at 11:50:44:

Cheeky, I'm gonna concede all your points except this one:

> I know when you guys make statements like this about celebrating Halloween, that you have indeed plunged into spiritual darkness. I could maybe see one of the other holidays, but to take part in the day of the dead is another.

Cheeky, this only proves that you know nothing about the meaning of the Day of the Dead.

Halloween and El Dia de los Muertos
| What it's really like Folklore links from the Chicano Library at UCLA
What does it mean to say "Halloween is Pagan?"
| "Halloween: From a Neo-Pagan Perspective"
Satanists
| ...are mostly play-actors. The serious ones are rarely dangerous, and the dangerous ones are mostly ignorant -- and very scarce. About 335 Canadians identify as Satanist; the numbers are similar in the US.

> I could see how one might even reason out Christmas......but Halloween? I have heard on the news a couple of years back that different Satanic cults were looking to make it a holiday, do you know why???? Because they do their little rituals on Halloween to worship the dead.

Quibbles about "worship" aside, what is wrong with honoring our beloved dead?

Yesterday, I attended a lovely service at the Unitarian Universalist church. We lit candles for those who had passed on, whose memory we wanted to preserve and share with those present. I lit candles for my brilliant, warm, vivacious mother, and for two of my favorite poets, and -- for my JW friends who had to quit talking to me when I left -- people who turned their faces to the wall and let our friendship die, painful as it may have been to them.

Hey, Cheeky, given the anonymity of this board, maybe I lit that candle for you.

exuberant potato grrrl

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