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[Archae]

People having fun is "Satanic," according to Robertson.

Pat Robertson: Halloween Is A 'Festival For Demonic Spirits'

Submitted by Brian Tashman on Thursday, 10/9/2014 12:35 pm

Today on “The 700 Club,” Pat Robertson once again warned viewers against partaking in “demonic” Halloween revelry. “Halloween is a festival for demonic spirits,” Robertson said in response to a viewer who wondered whether to let her children go to their aunt’s Halloween party.

“The whole idea of trick-or-treating is the Druids would go to somebody’s house and ask for money and if they didn’t get money they’d kill one of their sheep, that was the sheep and it was serious stuff. All this business about goblins and jack-o’-lanterns all comes out of demonic rituals of the Druids and the people who lived in England at that particular time.”

Robertson suggested that Christians instead “turn it into a Christian festival and that’s what we ought to do, we need to redeem these days, but that day was given over to Satanic things.”

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-robertson-halloween-festival-demons#sthash.7vg3fQQB.dpuf

[dballance]

1. What an idiot. We already turned Saturnalia into Christmas.

By the way, Halloween or "All Hallows Eve" is actually about warding off evil spirits. Not embracing them or Satan. Especially since the pagans who observed All Hallows Eve didn't even have the concept of "Satan" in their belief system.

[Fred Sanders]

2. Since Christianity springs from the violent torture of a single man, should they not turn from

Christianity?

[Enrique]

3. Pat is still hating on the Druids?

let it go.

[lastlib]

4. Pat hates on everybody but his deluded donors.

Jus' sayin'.............

[Blue Owl]

6. Pat Robertson knew who the Druids were, and what they were doing

[SheilaT]

5. Unfortunately a lot of

religious people have something against Halloween.

We are now moving into the season where DU will be overwhelmed with threads from people who HATE Thanksgiving and Christmas, who complain bitterly about enforced time with family, as if they are every year shackled and forced to spend time with their relatives. No one forces any adult to participate in these holidays any more than they are willing to do. If you'd rather not see your family, tell them no. Make plans to serve in a food kitchen on those holidays. Or sit home, lock all your doors, and work on your novel.

Me? I love the holidays. I don't live near any family (sob, sob) and for the past five years I've worked an eleven hour shift on the information desk of the hospital I was working at. Both Thanksgiving and Christmas. The people coming in were so appreciative to see someone who greeted them warmly that just being there was a pleasurable experience. I've since quit work and this year I will actually be off all the holidays, and I'm thinking of hinting to my sisters in Kansas they should invite me. But if they don't, I'll figure out something to do on my own.

I do wonder where Robertson got his information about the Druids and killing sheep. Somehow that doesn't sound very accurate.

[louis-t]

7. I bet Pat sits at home and talks to plants.

I bet he thinks he's always on tv and sits at the kitchen table lecturing the cat. What a pathetic moron.