Happy Halloween to my fellow sceptics!!  I don’t know if I’m alone here, but I’ve always thought that Halloween fits well with freethinking, more so than any other American holiday.  Thank you Irish immigrants, for bringing it here.

Happy Halloween!

Ghosts and urban legends go well with freethinking?

Happy Halloween! The only Celtic holiday left that the Christianized Romans didn’t steal from our ancestors! (Samhain).

Cap’t Jack

Yes, I think of it as the prototype for a once-religious holiday soundly secularized. Now on to Christmas!

domokato - 31 October 2011 05:45 PM

Happy Halloween!

Ghosts and urban legends go well with freethinking?

Sort of;  the spectacle, the horror, and other “freakishness” of the experience is fun to take part in, but as freethinkers we (hopefully) know it’s all fantasy.

mckenzievmd - 31 October 2011 07:47 PM

Yes, I think of it as the prototype for a once-religious holiday soundly secularized. Now on to Christmas!

  Actually, I didn’t consider that at all, but it’s a good point.

NYC Village Halloween Parade was a good one, thousands of people in costumes.  They even had people doing the dance from Micheal Jackson’s Thriller video, it looked very good because over one-hundred people were in the zombie costumes, and they all knew the choreography, and a truck played the Thriller song, it was a fun spectacular.  It was all seemed like the common people joining for a festival, rather than a big commercial advertising vehicle.  

Skeptical?  Ah, maybe not quite, but I didn’t see any Christian crosses, so that was good.    The good thing about Halloween compared to the other holidays is that its a weird holiday, the other holidays would be far to normal without it.    And what other event asks you to dress up however you want to, spooky preferred?

mid atlantic - 31 October 2011 07:58 PM

mckenzievmd - 31 October 2011 07:47 PM

Yes, I think of it as the prototype for a once-religious holiday soundly secularized. Now on to Christmas!

  Actually, I didn’t consider that at all, but it’s a good point.

Indeed a good point!Halloween is something I can enjoy. I do not need to begin an inner debate with celebrating a religious holiday vs a hallmark one. This fits quite nicely!