{"id":1185,"date":"2011-10-28T14:17:56","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T18:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2011-10-28T14:24:24","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T18:24:24","slug":"fun-friday-halloween-jesusween-or-halaloween-just-gimme-some-candy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/10\/fun-friday-halloween-jesusween-or-halaloween-just-gimme-some-candy.html","title":{"rendered":"Fun Friday: Halloween, Jesusween or Halaloween – Just Gimme Some Candy!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is the Greek holiday “Ohi” (No) Day<\/a>, celebrating Greece’s defiance against the Axis powers during World War II. In that spirit, I say “NO!” to anyone raining on my Halloween parade, from my family’s church canceling its awesome haunted house\u00a0tradition when I was a teenager, to the latest calls in some Christian circles for “Jesus Ween<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

As Beliefnet points out, Christians have nothing to fear — and perhaps something to gain —\u00a0from Halloween<\/a>. And here’s Stephen Colbert’s take on why the faith-based alternative isn’t necessary,\u00a0<\/a>noting that Jesus is already a\u00a0spooky zombie, and pitching a “Sexy Jesus” costume to please both sides:<\/p>\n

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On the other hand, I’m strongly in favor of more women’s costumes that don’t look like something a stripper would wear; I had an impossible time finding a PG-rated butterfly\u00a0get-up\u00a0to go with my son’s Hungry Caterpillar! Sheesh. How about the faith-based values folks focus on that, rather than dismissing the whole day as devilish?<\/p>\n

Speaking of religiously-approved costumes, I chuckled at Canada’s “Little Mosque on the Prairie” episode where\u00a0Baber, kind of the sitcom’s Muslim Archie Bunker,\u00a0decides that it’s only permissable for the kids to dress up as inaminate objects from the Quran —\u00a0an olive and a fig– for “Halal-oween”<\/a>\u00a0trick-or-treating.<\/p>\n

What do you think? Share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n

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