Halloween! Come Quick!
I say this every year: Halloween is a special time: we put masks on our children and send them out after dark to take candy from neighbors we would not let them talk to any other night of the year.
I enjoy Halloween. I do not get like the fundamentalists, who mock the faith by misnaming themselves �Evangelical,� that get wound up about Halloween. Sure, it started out as a pagan holiday but like all our other holidays, it is currently devoid of meaning. Feel smug about that, �evangelicals,� with your cold, law filled �faith� as you sit around your (pagan) tree at Christmas (also a morphed pagan holiday).
Kids like to dress up and pretend. That happens across cultures worldwide. Kids also like candy, treats, and other snacks. Kids also like to stay up past their bedtime, and the novelty of going outside past your bedtime is also enticing.
My favorite thing about these �evangelicals� following good old Pat �Let�s blow up Foggy Bottom� Robertson, is that they have �harvest festivals� for their children (a long time after harvest) on October 31 to replace the �devil worship� that the rest of us are engaged in.
I am really sure that they correct their daughters when they play dress up or their sons when they pretend to be super heroes at the play ground, or when their children take candy from neighbors while at a friend�s house to play. OH NO! SOMEONE IS HAVING FUN! FIND THAT BOOK WE DIDN�T READ, but also didn�t burn, AND BEAT THEM WITH IT
Another annual feature coming soon: The Official Spritopias Halloween Costume.
Halloween is a lot of fun. I have to work that night but I hope to do something fun this October.
