Comments on: iMonk 101: My Annual Halloween Rant (One of them) Revisited

By: Headless Unicorn Guy

Headless Unicorn Guy — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:32:12 +0000

That thumping sound you hear is me banging my head against the nearest wall.

By: Headless Unicorn Guy

Headless Unicorn Guy — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:27:29 +0000

Itâ€™s very tempting to just brush off the voice telling you youâ€™re mistaken, and instead, to rely on our â€œgut feelingâ€ that somehow the Big Evil just *must* still be there, despite whatever evidence someone presents to the contrary.

That sounds frighteningly like a Permanent Floating Witch Hunt searching around for a target.

And partaking of Conspiracy Theory mentality. The Dwarfs are for The Dwarfs, and Won’t Be Taken In.

By: Happy All Saints Day! « Now I Know In Part

Happy All Saints Day! « Now I Know In Part — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

[...] reading a few posts from the Internet Monk, however, I realized that Halloween,Â or more specifically, All Saints Day,Â is a Christian holiday [...]

By: The Eagle & Child: "A blogging tour de force!..." - Marc Vandersluys, The Eagle & Child

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:02:17 +0000

[...] has an annual rant about Halloween (or, more specifically, the Christian response to Halloween), in which he describes his upbringing [...]

By: Joshua Skogerboe

Joshua Skogerboe — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:43:29 +0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you. So grateful for some common sense mixed with a little histroical perspective. Lies – like the ones propigated by Warnke – often have ripple effects for YEARS. And although I do believe there is power in the forces of darkness – real power – I am unafraid and unwilling to cower. Because greater is He who is in me…

Halloween is one day of the year my boys look forward to with GREAT anticipation. We downplay the creepy and yucky stuff. We celebrate family and community. It’s one of the best times of the year for us to get face to face time with the neighbors. And my kids light up like a Christmas Tree (I know, another pagan symbol…) when they get to dress up and fill their sacks with goodies. I’m a pastor and I wouldn’t miss it. Blogged about it here today >> http://bit.ly/4ddB3Z.

Let’s be about the business of REDEEMING culture, not stiff-arming it. Greater is HE who is IN US! Go have fun with your family – we are free. Let’s be a light in our neighborhoods!

I love your blog. Thanks so much.

-joshua

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:13:49 +0000

I said this when I linked to this post at my own site, but it bears repeating:

This is one of the reasons that I’m thankful to have grown up in a mainline protestant church.

By: Windblown

Windblown — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:49:08 +0000

“Seriously, does anyone REALLY believe that thereâ€™s some kind of supernatural conflict going on specifically on Halloween? ”

No! There is a spiritual conflict going on all the time!

“Somehow the evil spirits escape their bonds and run amok thru the world searching for innocent children dressed as vampires and werewolves whose souls they may devour.”

No! The evil spirits run amok thru the world searching for innocent children whose souls they may devour.

Some of them are religious spirits, some of them deceive people into think the spiritual world does not exists, but they all have only one object.

By: My obligatory “what does this Christian think about Halloween” post | Reason To Stand

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:01:48 +0000

[...] seems that few holidays are moreÂ divisiveÂ within the Christian community than Halloween. Countless Churches have, by this time, already had their “Fall [...]

By: peacetrain

peacetrain — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:14:52 +0000

Respectfully giving you flack

By: Sausage « City of God

Sausage « City of God — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:40:17 +0000

[...] imonk wants you all to chill out about Halloween already. Stuff like this makes me thankful I grew up mainline [...]