So Who's Celebrating Jesusween Tonight?

[Perham1]

That's right, no Halloween for the righteous, it's been replaced by God-friendly Jesusween!


Pastor Paul Ade wants October 31st to be associated with Jesus, not creepy costumes and candy, reports the Calgary Herald.

That's why he's urging members of his congregation to wear white and hand out bibles on Halloween night.

The so-called godly alternative to Halloween, which has its roots in both pagan and Christian traditions, is being dubbed "Jesus-ween".

"If it's OK for a child to know about demons, it should also be OK for a child to know about Jesus," Ade says.

I think dressing in white and handing out bibles may go over better in Canada than the American deep south. Just sayin'.

 

[general35]

canadians...

 

[Perham1]

If anything, October 31 should be associated with Martin Luther, if you want to bring religion into it.

 

[general35]

its pagan, let's keep it that way.

 

[ShinerTX]

November 1 = All Saints Day

The day before November 1 is "All Hallows Eve"

It is best to just leave it fun but also remember the meaning of November 1.

 

[accuratehorn]

I'm giving out candy to all the kids who ring my doorbell tonight, whatever it is they are celebrating, or not celebrating.
There aren't 2% who think about the derivation of the holiday.

 

[NEWDOC2002]

We hijacked Christmas so why not Halloween?

 

[rickysrun]

Halloween used to be fun. As kids my friends and I we'd be gone for hours coming back with pillow cases full of candy. School was a costume contest, candy was flowing, and nobody got tainted candy or kidnapped by a child molester. What a shock! Now it's just the most controlled ******** day. My kids weren't even dressing up for school, trick or treating takes place at churches, this is mind boggling. Can kids not be kids anymore?

 

[Crockett]

Shiner nailed it. I remember a Catholic school where I grew up would have students coming to school dressed as a particular Saint. Even as a Protestant I find the lives of Saints inspiring and instructional and loved seeing the pictures of the costumed children in the local paper. Why create a new holiday when All Saints Day is already a terrific one?

 

[A. BETTIK]

A book I was reading at a Saturday costume party said Halloween comes from 'All Hallows Even', which is only slightly different from the earlier mentioned 'All Hallows Eve'.

Must have been some cockney geico lizard bastard who popularized the holiday and got to the current contraction of Halloween.

Still one has to wonder why our ancestors stuck -ing on the end of 'Even' and 'Morn', likely after the cockney bastard, otherwise it would be Halloweening...