At this time of the year many people, mostly Christians, come out and attack Halloween under the pretense that it is Satan's holiday. I happen to fall under the category of Christian myself and I think that this is all just a load of fetid dingo's kidneys (to rip off of the great Douglas Adams). Allow me to explain why. Much like John Milton described Paradise Lost as a defense of the ways of God to man, allow me to use this rant as a defense of the Holiday of Halloween to people with nothing better to do than protest a holiday. The main charge laid against Halloween is that it originated with the Druids. I could take the time to go off on a tangent about one of the greatest scenes in This is Spinal Tap about the druids and the monument of "Stone 'Enge" but I'll let you people rent the movie for yourselves or get it off of your favorite peer to peer system....not that I'm advocating doing anything illegal...but if you did it's not my fault. Anyways if you're going to say "Halloween is evil because it originated with the druids" then you have to condemn Easter and Christmas too because they were both very pagan holidays, the first of which (Easter) focused on fertility worship which was a very sexual thing to celebrate and Christmas originated with the Romans and they had gay sex orgies around a tree whilst being drunk. Yes, Halloween originated with the pagans but so did some "Christian" holidays. For the most part, nobody thinks about going around worshipping Satan on Halloween because it has become so commercialized it's almost like Christmas in that regard. Most people think of Santa Clause at Christmas due to commercialization and not as much about Christ like it should be. So leave people alone and let them have their fun on Halloween. Speaking of fun on Halloween, I can't wait until I graduate and go back home and am able to celebrate Halloween again. I can once again dress up as death and scare the crap out of little kids who come to my doorstep asking for candy. Actually, if I could I would dress up as an elder God (i.e, Cthulhu) and send little kids into a world of insanity as they shriek of the immemorial lunacies and unhallowed blasphemies from beyond the stars and they would go seeking eldritch sea shrines while chanting "I�! I�! Cthulhu fhtagn! Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah-nagl fhtagan!" and praising Yog-Sothoth and reciting from the necronomicon as they build massive Non-euclidian temples with impossible geometry as a monument to insanity. It truly is the most wonderful time of the year.
