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# are you including christmas as well?...or is it just selective holidays
(, Sun 1 Nov 2009, 11:32, archived)
# You make turnip lanterns at Christmas?
No, I'm not selective. I think the yanks have turned Christmas into shite too.
The again, I'm an atheist, so I don't really care what they do with it.
(, Sun 1 Nov 2009, 11:39, archived)
# an atheist moaning about halloween...yea
(, Sun 1 Nov 2009, 11:48, archived)
# Pfft!
(, Sun 1 Nov 2009, 11:51, archived)
# and?
Religious twats moan about stuff that has nothing to do with religion all the time.
Does being an atheist mean I can't critise stuff that's religious (and anyway, I was criticising rampant consumerism/bastardisation)?

(, Sun 1 Nov 2009, 12:04, archived)
# if there's no heaven or hell why does it bother you that halloween's been commercialised?
surely as an atheist it should mean nothing to you,
thus not affecting your beliefs or lack of them..it was just a thought
(, Sun 1 Nov 2009, 12:19, archived)
# ah
had a more considered think than "yawn" have we?

It bothers me that people are being exploited, regardless of whether or not it has religious connotations.
If people want to believe in the great sky fairy, that's fine by me, but if somebody is ripping them off financially (which is what I'm "moaning" about), that's not on.
 
(, Sun 1 Nov 2009, 12:47, archived)
# the prices of pumpkins now-a-days are shocking
(, Sun 1 Nov 2009, 13:06, archived)
# Does anyone really celebrate Halloween as a religious holiday any more?
(, Sun 1 Nov 2009, 12:04, archived)
# I think anybody of a 'pagan' religion, Wicca etc. celebrate All Hallow's Eve
as a kind of Winter's Festival. I knew a woman who described herself as a White Witch and I was invited along to one of their All Hallow's Party and they had cloaks, robes and knives and suddenly I knew how it felt to be that Policeman in The Wicker Man hehe. But they were all very nice and only used the knives to mark symbols in the earth in a ceremony in the back garden that I wasn't allowed attend as I wasn't a pagan - so I sat in the kitchen by myself, ate carrot cake and felt like a lemon :D
(, Sun 1 Nov 2009, 12:34, archived)
# Samhain
(, Sun 1 Nov 2009, 13:00, archived)
# Peterhain
(, Sun 1 Nov 2009, 13:24, archived)