Another Halloween has come and gone. We’re lucky enough to live in the Tower District, where we get 100 to 200 trick-or-treaters each year.
We love this goofy holiday, as most do, for the pure nonsense of it. But I have nothing but pity for those cheerless grouches like Tim Storey [letter Oct. 30], who see Halloween as a satanic attack on everything good, everything Christian, and everything American.
Never mind that Mr. Storey has his history completely backward. The pre-Christian feast of Samhain, a family’s remembrance of its beloved dead, having nothing whatever to do with Satan, was paved over by All Hallows Eve, and that long since morphed into a silly and largely commercial event.
How is this sad curmudgeon winning hearts and minds for Christianity? Doesn’t he know that close to 100% of today’s atheists are former Christians who got sick of happiness-impaired old frumps threatening them with hellfire for the least expression of joy?
If there’s anything truly evil about Halloween, it’s the candy industry’s pushing of products known to promote childhood obesity and dental caries. I’d like to see a righteous tsunami of Christian wrath against that.
Howard Hurtt
Fresno
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