Friday, October 15, 2004
The Literal Word
Okay, I don't really care all that much about what day Halloween falls on, but apparently it's a big deal in the Bible Belt. Which is fine. Their entitled to believe whatever they want. However, the argument against a Sunday Halloween is this:
"You just don't do it on Sunday," said Sandra Hulsey of Greenville, Ga. "That's Christ's day. You go to church on Sunday, you don't go out and celebrate the devil. That'll confuse a child."
Celebrate the devil? Yo, we're just getting candy while the older crowd is getting drunk and laid (although I suppose I could see that manipulated into a form of "devil worship"). Granted, I didn't grow up in the South, but I've gotta say, Halloween was never at all confusing. In fact, the only way I could see a kid being "confused" about the whole thing is if someone were preaching to them about how this is the devil's day. But there are reasonable people in the region.
"About 15 years ago, we decided to have Halloween on Saturday instead. People went crazy. We said, `Never again,'" recalled Starr Burbic, longtime secretary to the mayor. "It messed everybody up to move Halloween. Some people don't like having it on a Sunday, but we just couldn't find a way to make everyone happy."
Well... mostly reasonable. I don't know how many of us, in this instance, would say "Never again," with such severity that one would think we were discussing genocide. In the end, though, we can all agree this issue is moot.
"Most people don't have a problem with it. It's a pretty universal compromise, so that's what we go with," said Grand Rapids, Mich., police Lt. Douglas Brinkley.
Hang on a minute. When did Michigan become part of the Bible Belt? Me thinks the devil's trickery is afoot.
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"You just don't do it on Sunday," said Sandra Hulsey of Greenville, Ga. "That's Christ's day. You go to church on Sunday, you don't go out and celebrate the devil. That'll confuse a child."
Celebrate the devil? Yo, we're just getting candy while the older crowd is getting drunk and laid (although I suppose I could see that manipulated into a form of "devil worship"). Granted, I didn't grow up in the South, but I've gotta say, Halloween was never at all confusing. In fact, the only way I could see a kid being "confused" about the whole thing is if someone were preaching to them about how this is the devil's day. But there are reasonable people in the region.
"About 15 years ago, we decided to have Halloween on Saturday instead. People went crazy. We said, `Never again,'" recalled Starr Burbic, longtime secretary to the mayor. "It messed everybody up to move Halloween. Some people don't like having it on a Sunday, but we just couldn't find a way to make everyone happy."
Well... mostly reasonable. I don't know how many of us, in this instance, would say "Never again," with such severity that one would think we were discussing genocide. In the end, though, we can all agree this issue is moot.
"Most people don't have a problem with it. It's a pretty universal compromise, so that's what we go with," said Grand Rapids, Mich., police Lt. Douglas Brinkley.
Hang on a minute. When did Michigan become part of the Bible Belt? Me thinks the devil's trickery is afoot.
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