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To: IN_GOD_I_TRUST who wrote (18641)	7/11/1998 10:42:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

<<I certainly could respect pagans in respect to their holidays. Just as long as they don't infringe on the Christian holidays and their true meanings. Once the pagan rituals infiltrate the Christian beliefs and rituals, this is where I draw the line. If someone wants to celebrate Halloween, let them. I won't be offended nor will I disturb them from celebrating it. Just don't call it Christian or make it part of a Christian holiday ...>> Steve, certainly you should be able to choose whether to celebrate Halloween or not. On the other hand, all the Christians who are lobbying in the public schools to cancel Halloween are infringing on the right of my family to celebrate this holiday. Incidentally, I think you have the concept backwards about whose holidays came first. All of the major Christian holidays were originally pagan, not the other way around. In modern times, most of them are pretty thorough mixtures of both, however. While Halloween was originally an old European harvest festival of sorts, originated by the Druids, it was taken over by early Christians as All Hallows Eve. Trick or treating may well have begun as a tradition with medieval Irish Catholic monks. It was always a day of honoring the dead, and trying to communicate with them, for Christians and pagans. Satan is a Christian invention, not a pagan one, so the pagans can hardly be blamed for latter-day Christian hysteria about worship of evil spirits on this holiday. So, Happy Halloween (or not)! Suit yourself!