"As they passed the rows of houses they saw through the open doors that men were sweeping and dusting and washing dishes, while the women sat around in groups, gossiping and laughing.
"What has happened?" the Scarecrow asked a sad-looking man with a bushy beard, who wore an apron and was wheeling a baby-carriage along the sidewalk.
"Why, we've had a revolution, your Majesty -- as you ought to know very well," replied the man; "and since you went away the women have been running things to suit themselves. I'm glad you have decided to come back and restore order, for doing housework and minding the children is wearing out the strength of every man in the Emerald City."
"Hm!" said the Scarecrow, thoughtfully. "If it is such hard work as you say, how did the women manage it so easily?"
"I really do not know," replied the man, with a deep sigh. "Perhaps the women are made of cast-iron.""
- L. Frank Baum, "The Land of Oz"
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
At the new Evangel blog, Russell Moore posts:
An evangelical is a fundamentalist whose kids dress up for Halloween.
A conservative evangelical is a fundamentalist whose kids dress up for the church’s “Fall Festival.”
A confessional evangelical is a fundamentalist whose kids dress up for “Reformation Day.”
An emerging evangelical is a fundamentalist who has no kids, but who dresses up for Halloween anyway.
A revivalist evangelical is a fundamentalist whose kids dress up as demons for the church’s “Judgment House” community evangelism outreach.
A fundamentalist is a fundamentalist whose kids hand out gospel tracts to all those mentioned above.
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Comments on "Evangelicals vis a vis Halloween":
2. Raindream
- 10/20/2009 4:19 pm CDT
All--no, many of--the confessional evangelicals I know dress up both of Reformation Day and Halloween.
4. Bob Sacamento
- 10/20/2009 4:43 pm CDT
OK. Well, I would just like to register my umbrage at those evangelicals who diss evangelicals who diss evangelicals who think Halloween is bad, especially when the aforesaid evangelicals don't themselves think Halloween is bad. I mean, those of us who diss evangelicals who think Halloween is bad don't even necessarily think Halloween is good. Many of us are just willing to live and let live. And it really irks us that other evangelicals aren't. Willing to live and let live, that is. And we just have a hard time letting them get away with that. And we have a right to our opinion too. I think. Or maybe it's the ones who think Halloween is good that have a right to our opinion. Or their own. No wait, I can deal with the ones who think Halloween is bad, but it's you guys that won't let us say they are bad that really get to me. Or something.
Well, we have a right to our opinion. Even if we can't quite remember what it is. So take that and stick it in your jack o'lantern!
9. Sherry Early
- 10/20/2009 7:38 pm CDT
So that makes me an evangelical fundamentalist who used to be a conservative evangelical fundamentalist who wanted to be a confessional evangelical fundamentalist but couldn't figure out what people did to celebrate Reformation Day and who one year was a plain half-fundamentalist because we gave out candy with the tracts. I remember when this Halloween stuff was a lot simpler.
10. III
- 10/20/2009 9:50 pm CDT
I think you should add the category "homeschooled confessional evangelical", whose kids dress up as reformed theologians for Reformation Day and memorize sermons like "sinners in the hands of an angry God" to do some open air preaching to the other heathen (and plain evangelical) children out trick-or-treating.
That is totally going to be my kids. And I'm not really kidding.
11. Mary
- 10/20/2009 10:19 pm CDT
At one point or another in my life, I have been #1, #2, #4, and #6 :D
15. jen
- 10/22/2009 11:35 am CDT
III - hilarious.
My kids, both of them, are going as the Devil's fruit.
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HAR HAR HAR!!! That was great.
For the record, my Christian parents took me trick or treating at Halloween every year in the seventies. I had a blast. It was the last truly neighborhood activity left in the country. And I don't think it hurt me a bit. But it's gotten too weird now. Werewolves are fine. "Jason" is not.
Are we going to get into another argument about how Halloween is bad, or how some evangelicals diss evangelicals who think it's bad because they think it's cool to diss them, or ..., like evangelical blogs tend to do this time of year?