LA Unified Schools, one of the biggest in the country, no longer celebrate Christmas. That century old national tradition and sacred religious holiday can now only be referred to as "Winter Break" or "The Holidays".What used to be called Easter is now "Spring Break". However, Rosh Shashona and Yom Kippur are official holidays.
Last year at the Christmas show ... excuse me ... the "Holiday Fest" ... I asked one of the teachers why my kids were singing a Stevie Wonder song. She said the previous year the kids sang "Silent Night" and received complaints about religious songs sung in school, so this year they couldn't sing anything with word "Christ" in it.
Secular fanatics like Skip like to argue that they the anti-Christmas fanatics are simply separating church from state. Bullshit. They are just replacing one religion with another.
They took "Christ" out of Christmas but we have a holiday for Demons and Witches. Halloween is a big deal these days. EVERYBODY participates.However, few people know the true origin of Halloween. It's marketed to kids, so they assume it is innocent. Funny how people will attack rappers for "influencing" kids, but dress their kids up like mass murderers and fill their stomachs with sugar.
Tom Sanguinet, high priest in the Celtic tradition of Wicca (witchcraft) said "The modern holiday we call Halloween has its origins in the full moon closest to November 1, the witches’ New Year. It was a time when the "spirits" (demons) were supposed to be at their peak power and revisiting the earth planet." He went on to say, "Halloween is purely and absolutely evil, and there is nothing we ever have or will do that would make it acceptable to the Lord Jesus."
They are attacking religions that worship God, and attempting to replace them with religions that worship Satan and money.
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There is no god.
Not the one you are thinking of any way.
That was a made up joke.
Its called civil society.
The power possessors made it up.
Its called religion.
Man has developed his own culture of tools, implements, ornaments, customs, institutions, beliefs, rituals, works of art, language, etc.
It is divided into four categories: ideological, sociological, technological, and attitudinal.
The ideological sector is composed of beliefs depending upon symbolism or articulate speech for their origin and perpetuation.
Under this category man created his gods and demons, heavens and hells, and their immortality; and by means of magic and ritual he sought to capture the illusion of power and control over things and events; in the process he seemed capable of accepting resurrection from the grave and levitation but incapable or unwilling to nurture life, liberty and freedom.
The sociological components are the customs, institutions, rules and patterns of interpersonal behavior. When these components are analyzed clearly, they indicate that the ruling elements of all societies today, as in the past, have special power and privilege primarily because they control the major means of coercion that enforce physical, economic and mental enslavement, and if unchallenged in their rule and purpose, they can end the long arduous evolutionary development of humankind in its search for individual and collective freedom and security.
Religions do NOT worship 'god', except for the made up bullshit gods.
Jesus was a young and stupid person who came to full-fill the 'law'
The 'law' came from some happy horse shit from our Mesopotamian friends the Babylonians.
Amen [amon ra]
SUNday [son of god]
Fishers of men [age of pisces]
Christmas [winter SOLstice]
Easter [Oestra]
getting a picture here?
Conspiracy Nut, you sound like you watched Zeitgeist.
The truth hurts sometimes I.I.
Your life work is empty and pointless.
Happy Halloween yall! LOL.
Anon,
Huh?
my church is having something called "hallelujah nights" tonight. i think it's ridiculous but one of the other mothers strong armed me to bring a big bag of candy for the kids.
am i wrong for not wanting to participate? I mean, i don't celebrate halloween, but i think doing a substitute celebration is even worse! we may as well take them trick or treating, right.
AND i'm not comfortable bringing kids candy. I don't give my own kid candy (granted, she's only 1) but it's just horrible for them. I wish i didn't eat candy and i'm trying to stop.
Robyn, Dina, DV help me out here!
I'm with you Kalena.
Candy is crack for kids.
The fact that Halloween, a celebration of ghouls, demons, vampires and death, is built around limitless candy is no accident.
Can you imagine a better recruitment tool to lure kids?
"Alternate" celebrations sound corny to me, but who knows, they may turn out to be a good thing. But they've got to divorce the occasion from refined sugar.
My daughter went to school dressed like Cleopatra this morning. (Looked good too). I didn't mind that because she was pretending to be a human being, not a blood sucking vampire.
Since I spent $900 on Karate lessons, I told my boys that if they want to wear a costume, they had better be little black Bruce Lee's.
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Bring the kids trial size toothpaste to combat the candy the other parents will bring. (its pretty cheap). Think of the party as something fun for the kids, nothing more nothing less. Everything doesnt havent be so loaded and deep. Plus, you have other, more pressing things on your plate to worry over. I'd bet my last dollar no kid who wasnt already nuts is going to turn into a devil worshiper at the end of the party. :-)
Hope that helps.
DV, one of the secretaries in my office is sitting in here dressed as Cleopatra. Shes a white woman, and at least 60 y.o. When I saw her as I was driving into the parking lot, I damn near spilled my coffee. She looks like a damn fool. Cleopatra should be left to beautiful little black girls like yours.
Parents who let their children dress up like evil characters to pimp sugar to rot their teeth inexplicably demand NC-17 ratings on horror films or video games so that their kids don't watch or play them.
I don't really understand the difference.
rjesq - in that 60 y.o. white woman's mind she is dressed as liz taylor, not cleopatra.
kp
rjesq, an asian woman in my office is walking around with a Cleopatra headdress. Now, I knew full well what she was aiming for. But when I asked, "Cleopatra...Nefertiti...who you 'posed to be?" She had no response but a shoulder-shrug.
You know I coulda slapped that thing right off of her head.
Pop her for me Ericka.
Tomorrow you should come dressed as Mao Tse Tung.
When she asks you supposed to be, shrug your shoulders.
LOLOL!!!! You sound like my mother with the "pop her." Funny. I can see me as the chief...hilarious! I'll keep that in mind for next year.
There are so many people that need to be "popped" these days its not even funny! Do people in other communities have a word tantamount to "pop"? I'm curious.
Oh, and good insight KP. Liz Taylor hadnt even crossed my mind.
DV you should delve a bit deeper into the bullshyt surrounding the pagan celbration currently known as Christmas. There are so many things wrong with it, starting with the date, that you may want to seriously reconsider all of your "holy" days.
And conspiracy nut has a point that most (if not all) current religious enterprises could be said to have direct links to the sun worship of ancient Egypt, which happens to be the oldest known organized god worship in human history, so that shouldn't really surprise anyone.
You can take a if you can't beat them, join them attitude if you like. Personally, I try to absolutely reject as much bullshyt as I can possibly identify. That way I don't have to be upset by all the bullshyt that occurs around me. Saves a lot of poppin folks, when I can dismiss them out of hand as ignant beyond all hope of redemption
Update on Hallelujah Nights: It was ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL! The children's ministry at my church did a fabulous job! There were games and craft activities. The children thoroughly enjoyed themselves and not one seemed to care about not taking part in the trick or treating.
The director of the ministry (a young lady about my age (25)) sat all of the children down toward the end of the program and explained to them the origins of Halloween i.e. why people dress up and go trick or treating. She explained it in a way that the children would understand and relate. After explaining to them why people dressed up she said "So why would we, as Christians, dress up as other things when we are beautifully made by God?"
The children really understood and thoroughly enjoyed themselves. If i were a kid, i would have preferred to be at this program than out trick or treating.
Oh, and the candy was handed out to the parents as we were leaving, so I was okay with that too. I know for a fact that the majority of those children will never see that candy or only get a little bit.
Sorry this is so long, but i felt obliged to give an update since my position changed so drastically after attending.
lol. i knew these things long before zeitgeist. i've studied comparitive religion on my own since um...1995 or so.
Moses stole the ten commandments from hammurabi who stole them from someone else, each adding his own twist to them. Every holy writ --every one -- is twisted over and over to support the political agenda, du jour. How many fine christians know that prior to the council of nicea, belief in a triune god was considered polytheism and blasphemy?
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