LOID: My Fellow Americans, Stop Having Fun

If there’s one thing our culture hates, it’s fun. Holidays especially just aren’t embraced as they once were. “Merry Christmas” has been replaced with “Happy Holidays” for the sake of political correctness; Easter is no longer about Christ’s resurrection, but more about a stupid little bunny with a cotton tail (although some families throw a visit to church on Easter morning on the wayside.) July Fourth is a racist holiday and you are a racist for celebrating it. Instead of celebrating worthwhile holidays, we now celebrate gay people for an entire month. We celebrate “black history month” (no one ever says anything about a white history month), Columbus Day now celebrates Native Americans instead, and Juneteenth is basically an excuse for federal employees to get a day off and watch overweight black women twerk in the streets during Juneteenth parades.

And now here we are on Halloween. Everyone ruins Halloween.

For starters, Halloween costumes are apparently racist (surprise). In fact, NBC’s Today Show website seemed to need to inform you that, while at one time dressing as Disney characters was perfectly fine and acceptable, it now might not be. I suppose that dressing as Donald Duck shows cultural bias against ducks? Is dressing as Snow White offensive to albinos?

Clearly, this is all a bunch of leftist-manufactured nonsense made to scare blockheaded parents into stopping their kids from having fun because fun is offensive. Guess what? Some things are offensive. What if the very idea of cultural appropriation is offensive to me? Should we ban any discussions concerning cultural appropriation because I, as a white male, feel targeted?

The truth is, even if dressing as a different culture were offensive (which I don’t believe it to be) so called minorities love offensive jokes and such. My black friends make jokes that I would never make and laugh harder at “offensive” jokes than anyone else in the room. The fact that we now find it unacceptable to dress up in costume and have fun is a sad reflection on our anti-fun culture.

But forget about costumes, no kid cares about what they dress up as half as much as getting buckets of candy. That’s right folks, candy is under attack this year too. Apparently the Washington Post wants us all to remember that candy needs to be politicized. Their article, titled “How you can make more socially conscious Halloween candy choices,” is not from a crazed group of idiots who belong in a mental asylum, surprisingly. It’s from a huge newspaper. It’s absolute madness that we are now injecting political stupidity into what is a holiday meant for the kids. Do you think the toddler dressed as Chase from Paw Patrol who shows up at your door looking for candy is going to say “Please make sure it’s socially conscious candy”? No, that sounds like something his fourty year old Karen of a mom would say. I don’t give two cents about my bag of skittles being socially conscious, I just eat the darn candy. Literally no one cares about the social consciousness of candy.

From all sides, someone seems to ruin Halloween. The left hijacks it and makes it into a political point. And legalist zealots say it shouldn’t be celebrated at all.

Every year in October, you generally have two types of people. People who celebrate Reformation Day and people who celebrate Halloween. And then there’s that weird mix of “Harvest Celebration” people. Those guys are weird. But in any case, you can tell a lot about a person depending on if they celebrate Reformation Day or Halloween. Every single year, there’s the same old argument: Halloween was rooted in pagan practices and Christians shouldn’t celebrate death. It is, of course, true that Christians shouldn’t celebrate death, death is a product of sin and is by no means worthy of celebration. However, celebrating Halloween is not equivalent to celebrating death. The same holiday can mean very different things to different people. Personally, I have neighbors who probably do go a bit too far into the so-called “death worshiping” side of Halloween. They put up all types of creepy crawly decorations, which is not necessarily morally correct or incorrect, but it doesn’t seem to me that Christians should participate in that kind of celebration (maybe that’s just my dislike for a giant talking witch statue screaming at two in the morning though). However, I know numerous people who simply view Halloween as a night to carve pumpkins, have parties, and eat chocolate. Take Christmas, even, for example. As a Christian, I of course believe the reason why we should celebrate Christmas is because of the birth of the Savior. The gifts and the family time are wonderful things, but they are not why Christmas is celebrated. However, to a lot of the world, Christmas is simply a holiday to celebrate kindness and sing carols. I even know a Bhuddist shop owner who puts Christmas decorations in his shop. Holidays mean different things to different people. And if Halloween is viewed as a day to dress up and go trick-or-treating, what’s so wrong with celebrating it?

Halloween is a day to have fun. But the assaults on this holiday come from both sides. Crazed leftists who can think of nothing but politics, and unnecessarily legalistic Christians who can’t stop associating Halloween with death.

America needs one big chill pill. Leftists need to touch grass, and legalistic Christians need to sit back and breathe. But, as I do not believe either of those things will happen anytime soon, until then, my fellow Americans, stop having fun. It’s for your own good.