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10-31-2007, 10:22 PM
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10-31-2007, 10:33 PM
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People are genuinely offended when they hear that my family as a whole does not participate in halloween.
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Some people you can never please*You might as well just let them be*They mock everything not their own*From their imaginary throne*But I won't bow down*even if the whole world thinks I'm crazy*So hey hey, this song is for us*So put your hands in the air*if you're crazy like us Hey hey*Hey hey, that's freedom you hear*Comin' right to your ear*that's the sound from our bus Hey hey*Why try to be like someone else*When you can only be yourself?*No one can sing the song you do*Be true, be legendary you*So I won't sell out*even if the whole world thinks I'm crazy*Why kiss the feet of the*people who kick you*When you can be anything that you want to?
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10-31-2007, 10:45 PM
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Halloween is a holiday both important to Pagans and Christians.
October 31st is not only a harvest festival and new year for the pagans, but the day when Martian Luther broke off from the Catholic Church and started alot of the stuff we practive today. the ten hammer strikes heard world round. i love it  
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10-31-2007, 10:50 PM
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Does the fact that some people get offended at your choice make it idolotry?
I agree their reaction is unfortunate...but I wouldn't define idolotry based soley on the degree of dedication on their part. Halloween is not a god alternative...it is a secular festival. If they do not associate it with religious devotion it is not literally idolotry...just obsession.
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10-31-2007, 10:59 PM
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Some people you can never please*You might as well just let them be*They mock everything not their own*From their imaginary throne*But I won't bow down*even if the whole world thinks I'm crazy*So hey hey, this song is for us*So put your hands in the air*if you're crazy like us Hey hey*Hey hey, that's freedom you hear*Comin' right to your ear*that's the sound from our bus Hey hey*Why try to be like someone else*When you can only be yourself?*No one can sing the song you do*Be true, be legendary you*So I won't sell out*even if the whole world thinks I'm crazy*Why kiss the feet of the*people who kick you*When you can be anything that you want to?
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10-31-2007, 11:08 PM
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When we use a passage from scripture, we have to be careful to view it in it's precise context...too broad an application extends it beyond the intended meaning, from exogesis to isogesis.
The fact that we cannot judge peoples hearts and gauge the degree of their devotion to Halloween should prohibit us from broad stroking it into idolotry.
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10-31-2007, 11:22 PM
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i go through Halloween night for a free bag of candy. does that make me an idolator?
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10-31-2007, 11:40 PM
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Some people you can never please*You might as well just let them be*They mock everything not their own*From their imaginary throne*But I won't bow down*even if the whole world thinks I'm crazy*So hey hey, this song is for us*So put your hands in the air*if you're crazy like us Hey hey*Hey hey, that's freedom you hear*Comin' right to your ear*that's the sound from our bus Hey hey*Why try to be like someone else*When you can only be yourself?*No one can sing the song you do*Be true, be legendary you*So I won't sell out*even if the whole world thinks I'm crazy*Why kiss the feet of the*people who kick you*When you can be anything that you want to?
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