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Halloween frights for fun, not fear
By Jason Johnson
Published: Thursday, October 28, 2004
Sidelines MTSU Newspaper

Halloween is fantastic because it brings the crazies out of the woodwork. No, not those clever frat guys dressed in cheesy 1980s gear, and not the small children dressed up like Harry Potter. But the true crazies like the people in LaVergne and Mt. Juliet who are encouraging their children to trick or treat a day earlier so that Halloween doesn't infringe upon the Holy Day.

The Mt. Juliet city council drafted a resolution and actually took the issue to a vote. The council members must have been chain smoking and sweating buckets while trying make the difficult decision as to whether or not kids will get candy and be able to toilet paper people's yards a day early.

The Tennessean recently published an article about how many churches are accepting Halloween as a festive holiday, and how people like Bishop Kenneth Dupree are holding Halloween activities at their churches.

Dupree might be too rational for his own good, because being rational just isn't that scary or funny. Not when you've got plenty of suburban moms and schoolteachers that think that Halloween is the devil's holiday.

"I think we ought to close down Halloween," said televangelist Pat Robertson. "Do you want your children to dress up as witches?"

And that is the infinite wisdom of The 700 Club's leader. It's amazing that this man who fears children dressing up like mythological spell casters has influence over anyone. Maybe in his mind, the evil of the world will come full circle when all children dress like goblins and satanic unicorns.

Many school districts in many states have attempted to ban Halloween from their schools over the years. California, Texas, Virginia and Florida have all had school districts ban Halloween. And the fear of paganism and magical witchcraft keeps growing.

A fresh source of humor and witch fear comes from children's writer J.K. Rowling. Just one night instead of burning your brain with reality television, jump online and read some of these hilarious fears posted on Christian message boards and Web sites over Harry Potter. If you go to the parenting section on www.christianitytoday.net, you can read a highly insightful column of what is to love and hate about Harry Potter by Lisa Jackson.

"Modern witchcraft is indeed a scary, seductive force that we must protect our children from," writes Jackson.

So what is actually so scary about modern witchcraft? The thought of a bunch of pagans frolicking through the woods, worshipping trees and imagining that they can cast spells isn't so terrifying. Is it?

There are some truly horrifying things on this earth, but most of them are concocted by the minds of simple men - not by a league of demons, witches or wolf men. The expression is that the only thing to fear is fear itself, and that's because fear creates nuclear weapons. Fear causes persecution and makes people gullible. Nothing says true terror quite like a nation full of gullible people.

So just remember, next time a group of friends are gathered together and you hear a mysterious noise from the closet, don't worry. It's probably just the foundation of your house coming apart because of faulty construction. But it's defiantly not some supernatural killer, because they just don't exist. And if you think you are scared, imagine dodging drunken drivers while trick or treating on a Saturday night.
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