TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Category: Religion

  • Halloween Sunday

    Halloween Sunday

    Halloween on Sunday troubles some Southerners:

    Before I get to the heart of the article, I just wanted to point out one thing. The headline says “southerners” yet at the very end of the article, they quote a police lieutenant from Michigan. I guess they mean south of Canada.

    Anyway, back to the matter at hand.

    Ah, yes. It’s that time of year. The leaves are changing colors. There’s a chill in the air. And all the religious nuts have their holy underwear in a bunch over Halloween. Let’s read some quotes…

    “It’s a day for the good Lord, not for the devil,” said Barbara Braswell, who plans to send her 4-year-old granddaughter Maliyah out trick-or-treating in a princess costume on Saturday instead.

    “You just don’t do it on Sunday,” said Sandra Hulsey of Greenville, Georgia. “That’s Christ’s day. You go to church on Sunday, you don’t go out and celebrate the devil. That’ll confuse a child.”

    Come on people. Get over yourselves already. It’s not “the devil’s day”. If there were any evil connotations to Halloween, it’s long been forgotten. It’s a time for kids to get candy. That’s it.

    Anyone who uses Halloween as an evil holiday is usually a bunch of mutants who think they’re badass or something. Don’t rob your kids of a childhood just because you’re an overzealous wingnut. I’m sure the stories will get more interesting as we get closer to Halloween.

  • Get A Grip

    Get A Grip

    Ok, people. We as a nation need to seriously calm down. I heard a report on NPR that hate crimes against Muslims living in America are up 40% since the attack on the WTC.

    Get a grip, people.

    I decided to do some research on Islam to see what its teachings were, and I came across this great website, which can be found here. http://www.pakistanlink.com/religion.html And you know what the two were words I found the most were. Peace and Love. And I found something else interesting there. In a question asked about blood transfusions and was it ok to give or accept blood from non-Muslims, this answer was given by a Muslim scholar.

    “Islam teaches us to feed the hungry, to take care of the sick and to save human life. In these matters, Islam emphasizes taking care of all human life without any distinction of religion, race, gender, color or nationality. All human life should be respected and protected. “

    Sounds like to me that true Muslims have respect for all life. The men who committed the attack on the WTC were zealots. Much along the lines of Christians who kill people by bombing abortion clinics, only on a much larger scale.

    Now I’m no tree – hugging politically correct weenie by any sense of the word, but not all Muslims are terrorists, just like all Christians, like myself, do not believe in blowing up abortion clinics, no matter how much we disagree with abortion.

    Don’t get me wrong now. The people who committed this atrocity against the U.S. Must be punished swiftly and severely.