So ... are they burning it to CD or DVD?

A "pro-life jack o'lantern"? Isn't that a contradiction in terms?

Those poor pumpkins didn't JUMP off the mother vine, you know! They were HARVESTED! Ripped untimely from their umbilicus!

I can't look at the photos, myself-- moist seeds and pulp scattered everywhere! How can the pumpkin-slaughtering trade LIVE with itself?

I remember several years ago, when the fundie reactionaries started flogging the premise that Halloween was one big Satanic Ritual marketed by the Forces of Evil to entice and corrupt innocent children and ignorant adults.

I thought for a while that they might invent a new "holiday" to oppose Halloween. But I guess "Jesusween" was too much like Christmas.

· Yr Obd't Servant

So pathetic.

We just had a bunch of children from the day care next door in our office, trick-or-treating for candy, it was a nice break.

I'm a metal head, and that music has always been the target of these idiots. Though I don't agree with them whatsoever on that issue, I can certainly understand why they would go after it.

But I'm having a little trouble with the notion that soft and easy, southern gospel, contemporary Christian, jazz, and soul would be the music of the devil . . . and then to make the rather surreal jump to announce they will be serving fried chicken and all the sides.

If you're willing to picture Satan laying in a chaise lounge chair, humming peacefully to John Coltrane, Billy Cobham, or Aretha Franklin . . . is it really that much of a stretch to picture ol' Beelzebub smacking his lips after snarfing down a hot piece of KFC?

I was flipping through Michael Parenti's book, The Assassination of Julius Caesar, a People's History of Ancient Rome. The parallels to modern American politics are striking. There was a movement, by the Optimates in the Senate, to enlist seers and cultivate augury in order to stall or completely block Caesar's moves for land reform and land distribution to veterans of the Roman army. Theses augurs would cry out, "Bad omen! No Senate today!" Is it surprising to see, over the last 30 or 40 years, the rise of the religious Right as an avatar of the American Optimates? With each regarding the other as useful idiots? The current religious zealots, have been hammering wedge issues all over the media, distracting the plebs and populares of America from their own critical interests. This is just a warm-up for the Assclowns for Christ, as they prepare for Obama's certain attack on Christmas. And the religious zealots keep forgetting, conveniently, the alleged birth of the alleged Savior happened in the spring. Oops - another pagan holiday co-opted and commercialized. We can't have a big birthday ruined by a sham trial and a crucifixion, now can we?

Aren't they going to burn the music Hannibal Lecter and all omniscient villains like? Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, etc.? Are they burning operas? Are they including Golden Oldies like the Chairman, der Bingle, Satchmo? Are they burning modern religious music like Stravinsky and Messaien?
Here's hoping their bonfire gets out of control.

"Soft and Easy Satan"??

I wonder if they burn Northern Gospel in South Carolina?

"The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts." - John Keats

"We will be serving fried chicken, and all the sides."

See, they DO consider "all sides" before making a judgement.

"The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts." - John Keats

Whew ... polka made the cut.

Oktoberfest is safe.

This is a phoney item, right??? Nobody is that stupid - or maybe they are just that stupid after all.

There may not have been witches involved, but their likely were slaves involved in the creation of most of our chocolate goodies so why aren't the human rights wingnuts being as proactive as these dudes?

There once was a group that believed in the usa but only if it would do things their way.
They would go to their meetings and declare that certain peoples offended them and they should't be able to stay.
For is it not written some place,in some religious book that they deserve,not with us, to see the light of day?
For if they be among us how will we follow our path to our own little spot of the "no" peoples and forever and ever regress and for that pray?
Is this not my right to make a fetus alive and and from which I wont ever stray?Yet must it never be gay!Tony

I wonder if they will expose pregnant women and their preborn babies to all the toxic smoke from burning the CDs. I also wonder if they have lynchings of local people who play banjo and fiddle and sing songs in their own homes.

Must I join the Wiccan Church of Sacred Chocolate to avoid these Chicken Corpse carnivors?

Aaaah, don't you love this time of year when all the weirdoes crawl out of the woodwork?

On one side you have the nuts crying foul about Halloween and not being able to say Merry Christmas for fear not to offend anyone. On the other side you have the ones actually being offended by being wished a Merry Christmas and complaining about nativity scenes in parks.

How about you people in both of those groups stay the f*ck inside for the next two months in shut the f*ck up and let us normal people enjoy our lives. Morons...

None of the antics described above come close to the silliness of the political scene that unfortunately will last until next Tuesday. I have yet to see any time purchased for a candidate or issue that does not appear to question the intelligence of the voters.

Satire:
www.landoverbaptist.org/subjectarchive/halloween.html

Not satire:
www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2009-10-27-abortion-effigies_N.htm?csp=34

The line continues to blur...

The personhood of the pumpkin. All the red neck,flag waving, country western, music stars who want to force a woman to risk her health or life to give birth against her doctors advice while supporting all the conservative bloody, deadly, wars will have their CD's burned. I wonder if the Vatican will welcome this Christian denomination into their fold. Welcoming anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti women and married protestant pastors into the Catholic clergy is a violent act of injustice against faithful Vatican II progressive, Catholic women , gays and married, defrocked priests. It sounds like the" Demon Chocolate" and the "personhood of the pumpkin", believers would be right at home in the fundamental Catholic religion.

So just what makes them think that their chicken and their sides AREN'T "blessed by Satan"? After all, the companies that provided it for them no doubt worship money above God or anyone else. THAT would put them under the power of Satan, wouldn't it?

It must really suck to feel like everyone and everything in the entire world is a threat and a danger to you. And to teach your kids such fear and hate is just intolerable.

Where is Christ's instruction to live in complete fear of everything and everyone? Where is Christ's statement about being paranoid being the say to heaven? Wow, I missed A LOT in my earlier days of reading.

So they think that pretty much every type of music out there is sinful, eh? Fine, I prefer to live in sin then. I can't imagine being so afraid of everything that you can't even allow yourself the basics of humanity. Do they hate all art, too? Was Van Gogh insane when he cut off his ear, or possessed (yes, I know that there is a strong theory that Gaughan cut it off, but for now let's stick with the original story)? What ELSE do they hate? Pretty much everything that man made. Oh, and about half of everyone ever actually born, if not more.

Yeah, Christ would be REALLY proud of these fearful, hateful Holier than thous.

I was thinking of handing out Stop the War buttons to the little urchins when they ring our house today. But since we live in a very conservative small town that would then mean that the parents would probably throw eggs at our house for daring to ask their kids to do the unspeakable and that is to think.

Eye of newt, toe of frog, wool of bat, tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blind worm's sting, lizard's leg
And Howlet's wing.

Roses are red violets are blue but people who use religion for a club eat shit.

C'mon, folks, use your browser. This isn't the AFC doing the burning -- these guys are burning AFC materials. This is a fringe group even by fringe group standards. They're burning Bibles, too.

I do admire the "mainstream" wackos claiming the candy has been cursed. I like that because they have around 100 million members, whereas the North Carolina church is undoubtedly a small, local affair. Here's what the "fringe wackos" site says regarding the burning:

"We are burning Satan's bibles like the NIV, RSV, NKJV, TLB, NASB, ESV, NEV, NRSV, ASV, NWT, Good News for Modern Man, The Evidence Bible, The Message Bible, The Green Bible, ect."

"We will also be burning Satan's popular books written by heretics like Westcott & Hort , Bruce Metzger, Billy Graham , Rick Warren , Bill Hybels , John McArthur, James Dobson , Charles Swindoll , John Piper , Chuck Colson , Tony Evans, Oral Roberts, Jimmy Swagart , Mark Driskol, Franklin Graham , Bill Bright, Tim Lahaye, Paula White , T.D. Jakes, Benny Hinn , Joyce Myers , Brian McLaren , James White, Robert Schuller, Mother Teresa , The Pope , Rob Bell, Erwin McManus , Donald Miller, Shane Claiborne, Brennan Manning, William Young, Will Graham , and many more."

I heard unconfirmed report that event was, actually, rained out. That'd be just too beautiful. Is there anyone out there able to confirm? Tks.

These Christian Fundamentalist's get weirder with each passing year. One actually commented not to have sex on Halloween because it might be with a demon?????? Halloween candy that's been possessed by demons??? A pro life jack-o-lantern for a pre-born???? They want to be taken seriously by the public but they constantly show us they are on the loony bin train headed for the nearest funny farm! Get a life people!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samhain

Ancient history for the folks in the Northern Hemispheres.

That means it has to do with the rising of the sun………….or SON in the north. Too bad history and culture are lost in education nowadays. Learning from the past could probably save lives and our children’s futures.

I thought this was going to a call for a chocolate boycott due to the cocoa industry's use of slave labor.

As a metal fan, the televangelist programs that denounced heavy metal back in the 80's only piqured my interest in it all the more as an impressionable youth.

Then I remember discovering that many metal bands, including the "Satanic" Iron Maiden, used the Bible as lyrical inspiration. lol.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B000A3OWU6/sr=8-3/qid=1257111243/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=5174&s=music&qid=1257111243&sr=8-3

When asked about this album cover, Ronnie James dio has always responded with another question.

"How do you know it's not a priest drowning a monster?"

I wonder what these folks would think of Norwegian Black Metal.

Seventhson knows what I speak of. \m/

Oh then there was my born-again aunt who was aghast to find a Black Sabbath album in our living room.

It was my parents. :D

And she was an ex-wild child herself.

It is funny how the music they hate the most tends to be that inspired by dissent and anger at the way the world is.

That's the thing. Ozzy Osbourne who was once the pointman for all this shit, is now a campy celebrity. King Diamond, the supposed Satanist, now identifies as an agnostic.

Not that I condone church burning or anything like that. I just mention that sincer many people have no idea about metal's true underbelly, like National Socialist Black Metal and guys like Varg Vikernes that have ties to white supremism and fascism.

Thing is though, heavy metal was borne of and is still largely fueled by protest and righteous rage. I want people to be aware of that also.