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Religion: Catholics, Episcopalians, Atheists, All Are Welcome!

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It's the Thumpers' favoritest day again.

In recent days, the Trump-supporting media platform Charisma has repeatedly pitched “Why Christians Shouldn’t Celebrate Halloween,” a new ebook with nine “teachings” about Halloween. “The demonic realm is alive and active,” it begins.

The ebook’s author Katherine DeGraw writes that people often recognize that “evil forces” drive actions like mass shootings. “However, when it comes to the pagan celebration of Halloween, we somehow do not see it as having the same demonic and evil impact as those other tragedies,” she writes. “The effects of Halloween and human sacrifices are just as real. However, authorities—and the news media—simply don’t report them.”

She urged Christians to be on the “counteroffensive” against the “demonic realm” that is conjuring up “curses, spells, vexes and other evil practices” in the month before Halloween to “destroy Christians, uproot prophetic destinies and come against the plans of God.”

Christians who see the holiday as harmless fun are “co-laboring with the works of darkness,” she writes. Essentially they are supporting what DeGraw says are occult practices like having sex with demons and sacrificing babies to drink their blood.
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I believe. But it's always bothered me that people say I have to be in a physical building every Sunday to experience God. Last weekend, I was with my best friend Shelby, loving each other and lifting each other up. I felt the presence of the Divine with her more than I've felt it in buildings.
 
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MissThundercat said:
I believe. But it's always bothered me that people say I have to be in a physical building every Sunday to experience God. Last weekend, I was with my best friend Shelby, loving each other and lifting each other up. I felt the presence of the Divine with her more than I've felt it in buildings.
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I've felt some pretty cool shyt in church basements.
 
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There’s a really bad Catholic Church joke there.
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Yeah, there's that But it's also where the kitchen is and the turkey dinners, lutefisk and lefse dinners, breakfasts, where people celebrate, support, and grieve together over food and coffee. Worth far more than what goes on upstairs.
 
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Yep

Except the lutefisk. Send that straight into the corona of the sun.
 
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burd said:
Yeah, there's that But it's also where the kitchen is and the turkey dinners, lutefisk and lefse dinners, breakfasts, where people celebrate, support, and grieve together over food and coffee. Worth far more than what goes on upstairs.
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Grace Episcopal's Oktoberfest was in the basement. I made two new friends and drank 5 glasses of wine. My church KNOWS how to party.

One magical moment at my church happened in our chapel. On April 3, I was officially recognized as Amber Marie by the church. They blessed me, laid their hands on me, let me say a few words, and greeted me with champagne after the service. 30 of my friends were there, and the chapel was full.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Yep

Except the lutefisk. Send that straight into the corona of the sun.
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This. All this. My great-grandpa, RIP, insisted on homemade lutefisk, and my family honored his request. Good Lord, send a lutefisk bomb to the Middle East, they'd give in. ;)

But agree with MissT: I don't need to be in a building to believe. I was born and raised old school Roman Catholic, and, naw, no need for that. To me religion is a personal thing, and for me, it's a deal with God from my heart to His.
 
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The Rube said:
This. All this. My great-grandpa, RIP, insisted on homemade lutefisk, and my family honored his request. Good Lord, send a lutefisk bomb to the Middle East, they'd give in. ;)

But agree with MissT: I don't need to be in a building to believe. I was born and raised old school Roman Catholic, and, naw, no need for that. To me religion is a personal thing, and for me, it's a deal with God from my heart to His.
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I'm 100% Norwegian, so I'm too familiar with lutefisk, though we didn't have it on our table very often. In 60+ years, though, that stuff has never passed my lips. With that smell, just couldn't do it.

This week my wife spotted an ad for a lutefisk and lefse fundraiser at in a little village nearby. We're going with some friends who also grew up around scandinavian food. I need to decide if I'm gonna finally try it. I think I"ll stick with my principles and just go with the coleslaw, meatballs, M & G, pie and good black coffee. Eating lutefisk now would be a little like cheering for the gophs after all these years. You can hold your nose all you want, but some standards are meant to followed to the grave.

Not that I don't like a lot of gopher fans, hey.
 
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Eureka Springs has a hotel with exits on something like 7 different floors, all on street level.
 
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Interesting case. Nutbar mails Catholic plaintiff a Chick Tract telling her she's going to hell because she picked the wrong way to butter her bread. Plaintiff claims intentional infliction of emotional distress; defendant claims malicious prosecution. Court tells them both to pound sand.

Being an idiot is not illegal. Inflicting* your idiocy on somebody else is not illegal. This is the essence of freedom of expression. The First Amendment is sacrosanct because it protects our right to be amused by stupid people. :)

* Within reason.
 
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