MoreCooler.com: It's more cooler with the thing

One of the kids had this thing with the headline "Costumes are cool, but Heaven is awesome!" among all the candy. Why didn't they give this out when I was a kid?! If I had known Heaven had more candy than Halloween, I'd have so been there! Instead, I signed a Book of Mormon. I hope Hell at least has some Pop Tarts.

If you mark your door with lambs blood, the Christians will pass over your house on Halloween.

Actually, pretty much everyone will, but them's the breaks.

Seriously though, I've seen a lot of hoopla over Christianizing Halloween this year. The idea seems to be: we tried to stop the holiday, and we looked like assholes/idiots/etc. Instead, let's make it into a church thing.

And I'm with you on the pop-tarts, but y'see, I like mine uncooked, and it's hell, so... Well, I guess that's why they call it Hell.

That's so much easier than the "Satan Lives!" sign Kim hung on the door to keep Johovah's Witnesses away once. Okay, maybe "easier" isn't the right word...

The church saw the pagan holiday and went "Gee, let's celebrate *and* do something religious". Like we *actuallly* know a birthdate from 2000+ years ago, before they shifted the calendar system...

In part, they picked it because it made it easier to explain. "You know your Winter Festival? We have something like that too..." Lazy, I tell ya! ;-)