Would Anyone Like To Explain What The Fuck This Is?!

[Yechezkel]

People still practice paganism? Lolwut?

I don't really get that, do you dance around maypoles so the earth spirits don't drop a monsoon on you or...?

It's not so much a matter of "still," as Neopaganism in general is a lot more neo than pagan. Wicca, for example, sometimes claims to be thousands of years old, but was actually invented in the 1950s by a guy named Gerald. How much of the religion is meant to be functional and how much is meant to be spiritual varies from group to group.

But as for the original topic: if this bothers anyone, I suggest they keep their trap well and truly shut the next time some preacher in the public eye goes off about "putting Christ back in Christmas."

 

[idarkphoenixi]

Call me crazy but I don't care, and don't really see why anyone else would.

Just let them have their silly little Jesus thing and move on.

 

[Furioso]

Based on the Halloween decoration/candy sales at the dollar store where I work, no one gives a crap about this group, or has heard of it

 

[The Riff]

I wonder whats next they are going to try to ruin.
Probably games, "hmm, Games are going to be around so i think they need more Jesus so how about if every protagonist is a pastor and he shoots bibles to convert them"

 

[BonsaiK]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/10/jesus-ween-christian-halloween_n_1003395.html?1318270211

Okay.

I'll tell you what it is - it's you being insecure about your religious choices.

This sort of thing shouldn't bother you. You can't realistically expect other people to believe what you believe, just as it's equally unrealistic of others to expect you to conform to their way of thinking. Rather than giving their little misguided holiday-reinterpretation free advertising, just learn to accept that different people believe different shit and move on.

 

[Your Fearless Captain]

I don't see the problem. Who cares what conservatives to with the children?

Edit: I think this guy is actually part of Jesusween and trying to get more people to find out about it.

 

[RemuValtrez]

They can do whatever they please. It's not like they are forcing you do follow them into doing it. Just laugh at them behind their backs. It's silliness, but there's not much you can do. They altered most of the other pagan holidays, this one must have been the next on the list to knock off.

 

[hanzkidz]

Come to Australia mate, we don't even do Halloween properly.

Or better yet why not go to my country Indonesia! We don't even celebrate halloween!

 

[Merkavar]

to me it seems that people who promote things like jesus ween dont understand the origins of chritianity.

like how things like easter and christmas have there origins in paganism. isnt halloween a partly a roman catholic thing. like the night before all saints day or whatever its called.

like it just seems wierd to me that people try to add/remove christianity to pagan/christian holidays.

 

[renegade7]

Halloween IS a Christian holiday. Its original purpose was to bridge the gap between the Christian faiths and those of the Pagans. Most "Christian" holidays are actually altered versions of Pagan traditions.

 

[Titan Buttons]

I'm Chatholic and I have no idea what that is about. At the same time Halloween is a Pagan holiday and it's understandable as to why priests don't agree with it, but that doesn't mean we have the right to try and take it over, like we did with Christmas.

 

[jaysol]

I must say that to me, thinking that freedom of religion means that everyone has to respect one another just because everybody is special, everyone has the right to their opinion, etc. isn't in fact freedom of religion, but multiculturalism, which I hate because it puts backward third-world savages on the same level as civilized people. So yes, I do have the right to my freedom of religion, but your freedom of religion and expression give you the right to say, "I do not agree with this", and to move on.

 

[similar.squirrel]

As others have been saying, Christianity has appropriated lots of Pagan holidays already. I don't see the big deal about this.
Then again, it's a matter of apples and oranges. Both belief systems seem inherently ludicrous to me in this day and age. Unless you go in for the whole Pantheism thing, but I somehow suspect that it's the pentagram-wearing clove-smokers variant.

 

[The Code]

This is the thing that finally gets you ticked off?

You waited till now to notice.

The fact that your deities are never displayed as proplerly strong doesn't bother you, but this does.

Of course. The other religious holidays weren't about dressing up like monsters and getting free candy.

OT: Oh joy, another great holiday being smothered by Christianity. I guess they weren't happy with Easter and Christmas, and had to go after the one day where people (originally) dressed up as spirits and scary beings and collecting treats in their name? What are they going to try and take next, the Mexican Day of the Dead? (I may have my facts wrong on the original reason for Halloween, please don't hate me for it.)

The fact that they're calling it Jesus Ween is just stupid and amusing, because Christianity just has to rub its d**k in everything fun these days. I swear, Halloween was awesome in the 90's. You could dress as hideously as you liked, got mass hordes of candy, and no one did squat to stop you BECAUSE IT WAS HALLOWEEN! If I ever have a son/daughter, I'm going to teach him/her the true joys of the holiday and let the kid dress as whatever he/she wants. I know I will.

reCaptcha: technical strolng

 

[Brad Shepard]

Yo mods, I think this Belongs on the R&P forum, we all know where this is going.

And really OP? This bothers you? Go look at the westboro Baptist Church and get back to us. This is nothing, you clearly have not seen that one episode of King of the Hill with the Jesus Freak. I mean, im a Christian, but i enjoy Halloween, and If people view it as a religious thing, so be it, Love thy brother. That is what i have learned.

 

[willsham45]

Do all celebrations have to Christian.

Actally come to think of it even the Christian celibrations are not really Christian, IE nothing says celibrat this on this day, it all came about later.

 

[Queen Michael]

"Halloween is not consistent with the Christian faith. Many people say they feel uncomfortable on that day. We think people should choose an alternative activity."
Hey, why not? I think that we ought to start doing this much more often!
People are uncomfortable with bar mitzvahs! Let's do Jesus mitzvahs instead!
People are uncomfortable with ramadan! Let's do Jesus-dan instead!
People are uncomfortable with...

Or maybe, just maybe, we could just, you know... not celebrate a holiday if we don't like it! That's an option too, guys!

(Seriously, a Bible!? I'm not saying every house has to give out Pocky and Peanut Buttercups, but I already got a Bible!)

Jesus-ween doesn't even make sense grammatically! It should be Jesus-een!

 

[xvbones]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/10/jesus-ween-christian-halloween_n_1003395.html?1318270211

Okay. So let me get on the rant now.

I am a Pagan. And I for one find this to be bullshit.

Halloween is a sacred holiday. Pagan New Year, my friends. And this bullshit is what makes me hate America.

Let me tell you, I'm done defending the intelligence of this country if no one can follow our own Freedom of Religion bit. Fucking hell, I can't even think straight right now in regards to this. Someone, please post a better rant. I don't even have words. There ARE no words....

I, myself, get a little tetchy when people who claim to observe Samhain don't actually ever seem to remember to call it that.

('Halloween' is not a sacred holiday to anyone. But that's just semantics.)

You are getting a little too offended over something that really shouldn't offend you.

I'm not going to say anything inflammatory here, like 'your claimed religion doesn't exist' or 'your idea of paganism actually originated in the 1960s' or that 'both of the above mean you are really flying off the handle for the purpose of flying off the handle'.

All I'll say is that if 'Jesus-ween' inspires anything but wild giggling in you, you are taking yourself far too seriously.