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Originally Posted by anleja
I still can't understand ruining everyone's fun due to a few people's religion. If some kid with religiously weird parents has to sit in his desk in his regular clothes and watch the 95% of kids having a blast, he can take solace in the fact that the heathens in pagan costumes will eventually pay the eternal price for their sinfulness, and knowing that tastes much better than a little bag of M&Ms. Wow, that's the meanest thing I've ever written.
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I was one of those kids with religiously weird parents (well, just a weird mother). I sure as hell didn't sit back and watch while the other kids had a blast; I wanted the punch and cookies at the Halloween party just as much as the rest of them. I just didn't have a costume.
Being the lone costume-less kid at school sucks. Being the lone kid without contraband trick-or-treating candy the next day sucks even worse. Should the school have cancelled the festivities because my mother thought that Halloween was a celebration of evil and Satan? No. There will always be someone who will be "offended" by the celebrations of others...the world doesn't need to cater to them. Let the kids be kids, for Christ's sake.