The Burr in the Burgh

Our 10 year old son loves Halloween. What American kid does not? I can remember going trick-or-treating with him dressed as a fireman one year and as a lion another. That was so cute. But nowadays, he wants to be scary for Halloween and I have very mixed feelings about it.

Some Christians believe we should have nothing whatsoever to do with Halloween. Or if we do, it should be altered into a fall festival or Reformation celebration. I support those parents wholeheartedly. At the same time, I do not see the harm in allowing our children to dress in costumes and go door to door in the neighborhood for candy. Properly supervised, of course.

Our son knows that anything overtly satanic or occult is off the table for discussion entirely. No devil costumes or ghosts or witches. And no chainsaw murderers or bloody vampires. Ain't gonna happen. He agrees and that's not a problem.

But he does still want to be something scary. Which is weird, because he doesn't like scary stuff normally. Our attempts to dissuade him have not been too successful thus far. I said he should just go as himself. No costume. Or we suggested he go as his best friend and his best friend go as him. He could be Adam (go commando). Nah. My wife thinks he should be a bar of soap or a fork or something.

We did see a Napolean Dynamite mask. We almost had him with that one. I'm thinking of buying it for myself.

Over at The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns, I read this post about Halloween costumes from one of her guest contributors.

What are your thoughts on the whole Halloween thing?

What is the deal with these people? The Culture of Death on steroids. Go here and here. Now they want to euthanize sick babies. Well, only those who are terminally ill. Why stop there? Let's euthanize all the terminally ill. No, let's euthanize everyone who gets sick because they'll be terminal someday. Ah shucks, let's just kill everyone.