jcast's Journal: Halloween

Glenn Reynolds asks, ``Is it just me, or are people making a bigger deal out of Halloween than they used to?'' He reports that many people think they are, and I suspect they're correct. I think it's a side-effect of decreasing Christianization. What Christianity offers is (correctly or incorrectly) a feeling of certainty about death: death as a known thing, death as something you can live through. With a decrease in Christianity, death has become much more of an unknown, so people worry about it a lot more. Halloween originated in pre-Christian times as a way of exorcising this worry about death, and as the worry has grown, Halloween has grown with it.

I'd blame the temp...

[(H)elix1]

I'm much more likely to string lights about the house next week than sometime after the snowstorms hit after turkey day. Granted, I live in Minnesota, so you know I'm not normal right off the bat...