A "VILE"? I think they meant to say "vial". Reporters nowadays....

Norm said: "...since we are non-mormon and not on the safe list."

So THAT explains why I have so much candy left over from Monday night. I just thought I did too good of a job in decorating the front of my house. Scared the little (some big!) tricksters from coming up the walkway.

Here's another IRONY. Did you know police say that they find bibles at almost every meth house that's busted.

With a topic like this, I just had to share my experience on monday. I currently reside in a heavily baptist section of the midwest. Being on the outside of the block we have only a few trick or treaters every year, but still enough to warrent watching the door for a few hours. Near the end of the evening, a pair of smartly dressed people rang the bell, a man in a suit and a woman in a formal dress. I answered, in my vampire costume, candy in hand. They introduced themselves as members of a local church, and handed me a pamphlet. It (and they) explained that halloween is a horrible pagan holiday, with origins in the middle east, and that passing candy to children was a direct sin against God. They asked if I would pass out the pamphlets instead. Normally I would have gone ballistic and pulled the posessed by satan/Manson family routine, but a far better idea struck me. After staring blankly for a few moments, I said: "Wow, you guys really scared me! Those costumes are great, you had me going for a minute. Great idea, whats more scary than zealous fundies right? I'll have to dress like that next year, Happy halloween you guys!" I handed them each a mini snickers and closed the door, all the while they tried in vein to explain they wernt in costumes.

Maybe I'd have better luck with these guys if I passed out vials of cocaine next year...

"halloween is a horrible pagan holiday, with origins in the middle east..."

I doubt a real Christian would say this, but if they did it's absolutely hilarious.

I think you'd be suprise by what so called real christians say. They also think tampon's are the work of the devil and they so rightly call them "Devil's Fingers".

The misinformation of the local populace is sometimes beyond belief. The greater majority is not that crazy, but there are a few who really scare me. I know quite a few well balenced, deeply religious people.. And then there are the nutterbars who are really frightening. I doubt the ones at my door had even bothered to look up the information they had, my guess being they were just repeting what they had been told. Ignorance knows no boundries I suppose.

I remember the southern bathists (sic) pushing the idea that Halloween was of the devil and that it was reborn from pagan Europe, related to the evils of 'old Europe'. That was many years ago.

Now, with the war, it's been edited to bring the original evil from the Middle East.

The Halloween cocaine story is yet another revelation of the reality of those that wish to punish the percieved evil in others, while giving themselves a pass.

I put that story in the same catagory as the homophonbic gay Repugs that get outed every so often.

Hell, I bet the debble his'self put the cocaine in that 'safe' trunk, just to embarrass the 'good' people, and to make them doubt their special righteousness. Whadda you think?

misidea, brilliant...simply brilliant

cheers!