On Oct 28, 10:30?pm, Dare
hotmail.com> wrote:> On Oct 28, 3:44 pm, John Jones
aol.com> wrote:
>>> Halloween - one of the few happy occasions when christianity and
>> science get it together! Halloween is also great for the kids of
>> course, and has educational value -
>
>> Science helps put their fears and superstitions about death to rest by
>> mocking 'the dead', representing them as objects of horror kitsch;
>> while technology and industry helps provide our kids with appropriate
>> halloween appareil such as masks, fun food dyes, etc.
>
>> For its part, Christianity believes in the dead, but also promotes
>> halloween as a way to forget them. For even though, for Christians,
>> the dead raise their profile only at the end of time and the
>> resurrection, they still sometimes, in the interim, threaten to rival
>> the popularity of Jesus.
>
> What gives the dead such power?
Yes -
Thinking of the dead? then think power, think horror, think woooo.
That's what Halloween has taught you about the dead, and the rest of
us.
The dead have no more power than the care, respect and humanity they
shared with us while alive. But don't think like that.
