The only person I’ve ever personally ran into who felt that Halloween was evil, was a “crazy lady” I once hired to work in the front end in my office. She belonged to a small, local fundamentalist church with a hell-and-brimstone preacher—the kind of church where they read you the riot act for an hour, then everyone forms a line, marches up to the front and the preacher smacks them in the forehead at which point they fall in the aisle and convulse or some such.
I knew what church she went to–everyone in town knows about that church-- and I hired her anyway because she needed a job, was qualified and so on. And we got along fine until about the end of September–first of October when I brought in a sack of Halloween decorations and told my front end ladies that whenever they had time, here was some Halloween stuff to put up and that I’d bring in candy to pass out to any kids that came in the entire week before and up to Halloween. Everybody seemed pleased–especially about the idea of a full week of candy, which being a bunch of women–well c’mon, does it get ANY better than that? LOL!
Th next day, the “crazy lady” asked to speak to me, came into my office with her bible in tow and one of the little hang up skeletons I’d bought, opened her bible and read me a passage and told me that I could not do Halloween as it was a pagan tribute to Satan and a “abomination before God”. I listened to her politely, told her that all 5 of my kids enjoyed trick-r-treating, and I simply disagreed with her belief. She told me that she could not have any Satanic decorations around her–that it was a strongly held religious belief. I explained that candy was a strongly held belief of my own. And then we solved the problem amicably.
I fired her butt, put up my skeletons and hauled in the candy! I think it might work that way with a few muslim idealogues too if someone had the nerve to just try it! It’s my office–my way!! LOL!
