Trevor Blake: Happy Halloween
Nick Squires, Vatican condemns Hallowe’en as anti-Christian:
The Holy See has warned that parents should not allow their children to dress up as ghosts and ghouls on Saturday, calling Hallowe’en a pagan celebration of “terror, fear and death”. The Roman Catholic Church has become alarmed in recent years by the spread of Hallowe’en traditions from the US to other countries around the world. The Vatican issued the warning through its official newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, in an article headlined “Hallowe’en’s Dangerous Messages”. The paper quoted a liturgical expert, Joan Maria Canals, who said: “Hallowe’en has an undercurrent of occultism and is absolutely anti-Christian.” Parents should “be aware of this and try to direct the meaning of the feast towards wholesomeness and beauty rather than terror, fear and death,” said Father Canals, a member of a Spanish commission on church rites.
Won’t someone think about the children! Christianity certainly thinks about the children. Christianity thinks children who sass their parents are to be killed [1][2][3], perhaps by having their eyes plucked out by ravens and eaten by eagles [4]. The Christian God is a-ok with killing children [5] [6] and you should be as well [7], perhaps by eating your own children [8][9][10]. Like it says in the Good Book, “happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.” [11] Jesus is into it! [12][13] Here’s a wholesome and beautiful story that Father Canals might want to share with the children today: 2 Kings 2:23-24. “And [Elisha] went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, ‘Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.’ And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.” If you mock the bald head of a prophet, God will send bears to eat you. Praise the LORD!
Last year a newspaper controlled by the Italian bishops, Avvenire, called for a boycott of Hallowe’en, calling it a “dangerous celebration of horror and the macabre” which could encourage “pitiless [Satanic] sects without scruples”. Earlier this week the Catholic Church in Spain also condemned the growing popularity of Halloween, saying it threatened to overshadow the Christian festival of All Saints’ Day. The Bishop of Siguenza-Guadalajara, Jose Sanchez, said there was a risk that Halloween could “replace Christian customs like devotion to saints and praying for the dead.”
Let’s take a look at the pitiless sect and their scruples so that we may better compare their attitude toward children with that of the Vatican. On the left hand we have the Church of Satan founded in 1966. Satanism includes “Do Not Harm Little Children” in its Eleven Rules of the Earth (1967). The Satanic Bible (1968) reads: “If you attempt to impose your sexual desires upon others who do not welcome your advances, you are infringing upon their sexual freedom. Therefore, Satanism does not advocate rape, child molesting, sexual defilement of animals, or any other form of sexual activity which entails the participation of those who are unwilling or whose innocence or naïveté would allow them to be intimidated or misguided into doing something against their wishes.” And further: “The Satanist does not hate himself, nor the gods he might choose, and has no desire to destroy himself or anything for which he stands! It is for this reason he could never willfully harm an animal or child.” These are clear statements made by the founder and leader of the religion and published in foundation documents of the religion. It has never been disavowed by the leaders of the religion. Although millions have been spent over decades in the effort to discredit these clear statements, there is no evidence that satanists abuse children and plenty of evidence that satanists do not abuse children. Now, on the right hand we have the Roman Catholic Church. In 1962 Pope John XXII established the Crimine Solicitaciones. The Crimine Solicitaciones is a clear statement made by the leader of the religion and published in foundation documents of the religion. It has never been disavowed by the leaders of the religion. But while the clear statement of satanists is ‘do not harm little children,’ the clear statement of the Roman Catholic Church is something much different. The Crimine Solicitaciones states that children abused by clergy should remain silent and that the abusing clergy should quietly be moved to a new parish. The reason sexual predators in the Roman Catholic Church appear to have been empowered by their post is because that is what has happened. Because the Pope suffers the duel burden of leading the Roman Catholic Church and leading the Holy See (a nation), his bishops – those who operate under the Crimine Solicitaciones – have diplomatic immunity from prosecution when they are found guilty of child rape. Given the choice of the Church of Satan and the Roman Catholic Church in this regard, who has scruples? Is the reason Christians blame satanists for child rape because they don’t want any competition? It’s okay to be devoted to saints and pray for the dead if you do it as a Christian but not as anything else. Just because the pagan holiday of Samhain was co-opted by Christianity to become All Saints Day doesn’t mean anything. Necromancy is okay as long as one’s magic powers come exclusively from a Church-approved corpse.
