>On Wed, 1 Nov 2000 23:08:52 -0800 David Lewandowski
><[log in to unmask]> writes:
>>         Halloween - the celebration of the antichrist.


Since it was based on a festival that predated the birth of Christ by
centuries, this statement is entirely irrational.

When I was young, I knew an elderly woman from the New Forest of England
whose family had practiced an ancient religion in England since (according
to their family history) long before recorded times.  Her celebration of All
Hallows Eve had to do with the changing of the seasons, and NOTHING to do
with any other religion.  Although her family knew Aleister Crowley who was
a neighbor to one of the family properties, they were not impressed by his
attempts to pervert a modern religion and found him sad and sick and
"without religion or spirit, filled only with hate" .....

Crowley WAS a Satanist and publicly known as such.

Wiccans and their predecessors such as Druids have NOTHING to do with ANY
other religion in their own worship.

Although I am an Anglican who thrives on rare meat (at least *I* got
something about paleo eating in here!), I could not bear to let that snide
and hideously inaccurate statement past.

laurie (Mother Mastiff)  (offfended by bigotry's passion for spreading
inflammatory inaccuracies)