What are they celebrating?
Published by Michael Spotts: . on November 4, 2009 at 12:00 AM"Those that love death hate God."
- Proverbs 8:36
This past Saturday I was asked by an incredulous and co-worker, "Do you believe in Halloween?" She knows something of my beliefs and must have suspected the answer. I threw her a factitious curve instead.
"Of course I do, it happens every year."
"That's not what I mean. Do you celebrate it?"
"What are people celebrating on that day?" I asked.
Her eyebrows raised as she considered for the first time what she had hitherto followed unthinkingly. "I guess death."
"Then of course I don't. What is there to celebrate about death?"
I proceeded to tell her about Reformation Day, which happens also to be October 31st, celebrating the day Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door in Wittenburg and kicked off the greatest reformation and revival of true religion in history.
By the way, I have yet to see people celebrate and bestow such superstitious ardor towards their vain gods for life and living, as for death and dying. By their spectacles are they trying to appease someone?
What a grief to behold the idols and corrupt fascination with the macabre:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/11/days_of_the_dead.html
PS: Prior to my conversion my favorite "Holy Day" was Halloween. I loved the death motif and gloried in darkness. What a sickness to be freed from.
- Proverbs 8:36
This past Saturday I was asked by an incredulous and co-worker, "Do you believe in Halloween?" She knows something of my beliefs and must have suspected the answer. I threw her a factitious curve instead.
"Of course I do, it happens every year."
"That's not what I mean. Do you celebrate it?"
"What are people celebrating on that day?" I asked.
Her eyebrows raised as she considered for the first time what she had hitherto followed unthinkingly. "I guess death."
"Then of course I don't. What is there to celebrate about death?"
I proceeded to tell her about Reformation Day, which happens also to be October 31st, celebrating the day Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door in Wittenburg and kicked off the greatest reformation and revival of true religion in history.
By the way, I have yet to see people celebrate and bestow such superstitious ardor towards their vain gods for life and living, as for death and dying. By their spectacles are they trying to appease someone?
What a grief to behold the idols and corrupt fascination with the macabre:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/11/days_of_the_dead.html
PS: Prior to my conversion my favorite "Holy Day" was Halloween. I loved the death motif and gloried in darkness. What a sickness to be freed from.
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YES!!! AMEN AND AMEN!!! :)