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What's your opinion of Halloween? Do you
see it as an innocent bit of fun for the kids or are you wary of
the darker side of Halloween?
One email to this website voiced grave concerns
over the more sinister aspects of this Autumn festival.
Andy
emailed the website,
he believes we shouldn't be promoting the celebration of Halloween,
because of the dangers of encouraging children to become interested
in the supernatural. His email prompted a response
from an Occultist.
"Halloween
encourages children to become interested in occult practices and
to regard witches as joke figures. Satanists who practice witchcraft
are dangerous people who lead the vulnerable astray. Teenagers who
experiment with ouija boards, palm-reading and other occult practices
can often get drawn into dangerous cults where they are at risk."
Furthermore,
Andy also disagrees with the American imported practice of Trick
or Treat. I wonder what he's make of the Yorkshire phenomenon
'Mischief Night'?
"Halloween has also taken on board the dreadful American
custom of 'trick or treat' where often aggressive youngsters frighten
the elderly and vulnerable by knocking on doors and demanding money
etc. Do we want young people wandering about at night (often dressed
in black and therefore hard for motorists to see as I have experienced
at first hand), approaching strangers, and
celebrating an occult festival?"
Reply from an Occultist
However on reading Andy's views, one Occultist from Pickering was
prompted to voice his response:
"The problem I have with Halloween as an Occultist is that
it is now a commercial perversion of an old Celtic festival, that
of new year.
"Your emailer has it completely wrong when he says: "Halloween
encourages children to become interested in occult practices and
to regard witches as joke figures."
"Halloween, as previously mentioned, in its true form has
no occult connections whatsoever. Any that are there have been laid
on over the years in the interests of commercialism. Wicca and such
like are big business.
"What's wrong with regarding most witches as joke figures?
Most of them are! Have you ever met any of these people, and I use
the word 'people' reservedly? Why do they all feel a need to wear
cheap and nasty 'symbolic' jewellery that makes anything from Ratners
look like the crown jewels? Truly awful people. When you meet one
of these sorts they will tell you during the course of time spent
with them that they are a High Priest / Priestess, and they will
say it as many times as their stupid mouths will allow. No, I haven't
got time for 'em.
"Satanists don't practice Witchcraft and neither do Witches
practice Satanism. The two are as completely unrelated as taxidermy
and radio presenting.
"I've never come across a 'dangerous cult' in twenty years.
What is a 'dangerous cult' anyway? One that isn't Christian, I suspect.
I see he doesn't mind teenagers dabbling with the occult though!
Can I have the statistics regarding 'often'? I strongly suspect
that he's making it all up as he goes along, gleaning erroneous
notions from tv and the media in general. A risk of what anyway?
Looks like scare tactics to me from somebody who doesn't have a
clue what they're talking about.
"I think personally that Christmas is much more of an occult
festival when you consider 'occult' only means hidden, and what
is more hidden than the true Spirit of Christmas, peace and goodwill
to all men?
"Andy is just ill informed, as you yourselves are by saying
Halloween is a celebration of evil. Complete nonsense."
Duane - an Occultist
What do you think? Is Andy being a kill-joy or should we recognise
Halloween as a celebration of evil? Or should we all take Duane's
view? Have your say by filling in the form.
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Ginger
What you have just written is nonsense, as if you had read it correctly, you would see that he didnt say that satan wasnt related to witchcraft. He said Withes do not practice satanism, and Satanists are not Witches. You should read what he has written properly before commenting.
Alexis
yes it is meant to be fun, children have great delight in dressing up and asking for candy you just have to make sure youre safe!
nancy
ok. satan is known as the devil. and people know that hes the one that brought sin into the world. so how can you say that satan isnt related to witchcraft. thats nonsense.
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