'Jesus Ween' offers a Christian alternative to Halloween, says Calgary pastor

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Happy Jesus Ween y’all:

A Calgary pastor is promoting Jesus Ween, a faith-based alternative to the traditional holiday fare of candy and spooky garb.

Instead of chocolate bars and gummy bears, he’s asking people to shun demonic costumes and instead dole out pocket-sized bibles or other “Christian gifts.”

The idea has caught on in communities across North America, according to Jesus Ween creator Paul Ade. He’s hoping it will bring a new perspective to an otherwise pagan festival, he said.

“I do not associate myself with ghosts, demons, Satan and witches. These are things I want to get rid of,” he said.

“If it’s OK for a child to know about demons, it should also be OK for a child to know about Jesus.”

Jesus Ween has attracted international attention, with media reports circulating as far away as Britain.
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The pastor has 200 “kid-friendly” bibles ready to distribute to Calgary children on Monday. “I don’t think we’re ruining anybody’s fun. Getting a bible is not getting a bomb. It’s nothing really bad,” Ade said.

Remember when you though getting raisins and apples were the worst? Imagine the fury in the US if he were to create Allah-ween instead. 

My God. That sounds awfully close to “Halloween” - perhaps it’s best to lock the kiddies up! Or he could take the advice of another fellow pastor:

The insertion of Jesus into a harmless holiday reserved for treats and spooky pumpkins is a turnoff, argues John Van Sloten, the pastor of New Hope Church. “I think it’s awful. It feeds into the stereotype that to be a person who follows Christ is to be against everything outside of the church,” said Van Sloten. “I’m kind of appalled by someone doing this.”

The picture accompanying the article is hysterical when compared with the whole Halloween-the-satanic-holiday tone of the Jesus Ween Facebook and website. Instead of Christians “having to hide” on Halloween, they can give Bibles to monsters like these:

I’m… actually kinda offended by this?

Today is the most important holiday of the year for those of us who follow the Wheel.  Granted, we are relatively few in number, but even still, if I had a kid and took her out trick or treating, I would be really pissed off if someone gave her a Bible!  That’s saying, “Oh hi, sorry your religion is terrible and wrong here have mine instead!  Oh, tonight is the New Year and is a time to honor those who have passed on? LOL TOO BAD SATAN IS IN YOUR LIFE!”  I know that most people probably don’t even know that this is a legit holiday that doesn’t necessarily involve dressing up in costumes and eating candy, but that’s still really rude.

It’s bad enough that I get hassled for celebrating Yule and being accused of only being “not Christian” when it doesn’t involve presents (lol really?  can we look up the history of Christmas and why Yule was assimilated into the Christian calendar?  SAME FOR EASTER).  Now these people want to Jesus-ify our most important holiday? argh

Because goodness forbid we have a national holiday that isn’t tied into Christianity somehow.

My headache was almost gone, too.

To everyone who celebrates Halloween as a religious and spiritual holiday, I’m sorry people like this continue to embarrass Christianity with their shenanigans. Offending people really isn’t what it’s all about. At least not for me. :[  Come to my place, we got piles of unholy Kitkats and Reese’s Cups and they’re delicious.

Hey Fundies, quit pissing on Samhain, kay? And give us back our trees if you’re gonna be like that, we had Yule first. Your savior was born in spring!

  • March 1
  • , 2012
  1. ebonrune reblogged this from rynnay and added:
    Hey Fundies, quit pissing on Samhain, kay? And give us back our trees if you’re gonna be like that, we had Yule first....
  2. dashdotdashbackslash reblogged this from cognitivedissonance and added:
    Not every child goes out dressed as a witch, devil or monster. Once, my mother made a TV set out of a cardboard box,...
  3. thegasm reblogged this from sugarazor and added:
    My favourite part of the whole Jesusween story: http://magazine.shortlist.com/1G4e9d4d5790b53012.cde/page/30 - Andrew
  4. oh-theplacesyoullgo reblogged this from stayinbedgrowyourhair and added:
    I had flashbacks of an art history article I once read...discussed Christ’s penis…Holyween...
  5. porygons reblogged this from pastagfirullah and added:
    Jesus Ween. I can’t.
  6. teachmeyourtongues reblogged this from robot-heart-politics
  7. 101110 reblogged this from stayinbedgrowyourhair and added:
    i thought this was about jesus’ penis at first glance
  8. stayinbedgrowyourhair reblogged this from ayiman and added:
    the most annoying thing about “jesus ween” is the name for god’s sake HOLYWEEN that took me TWO SECONDS to come up with...
  9. ayiman reblogged this from pastagfirullah and added:
    FUCK CALGARY HAIL SATAN
  10. pastagfirullah reblogged this from robot-heart-politics and added:
    I’ve gotten religious pamphlets for halloween. It was confusing. Also, THE FACE OF SATAN, pictured below:
  11. zosky reblogged this from robot-heart-politics and added:
    OMG, I want to have Allah-Ween just to piss these people off.
  12. buckthestar reblogged this from cognitivedissonance
  13. beesmakehoneymasonmakesmoney reblogged this from timekiller-s and added:
    So, basically he wants to do with Halloween what Christians did with whatever Pagan holiday that turned in to Christmas....
  14. timekiller-s reblogged this from cognitivedissonance
  15. knucklehead-mcspazatron reblogged this from aquabutt and added:
    THIS is why we can’t have nice things. “The insertion of Jesus into a harmless holiday reserved for treats and spooky...
  16. dammitgravity reblogged this from redemancy and added:
    Soooo…you don’t celebrate Christmas (aka the pagan holiday Saturnalia) then? And get that damn DEVIL bunny out of...
  17. stillhidden reblogged this from robot-heart-politics and added:
    I’m just going to let it sit here. Because …. yep, that’s what the term “Jesus Ween” conjures up. And no amount of...
  18. jojothehappyhobo reblogged this from robot-heart-politics
  19. hellionette reblogged this from livindavidaloki
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  21. foulmouthedliberty reblogged this from robot-heart-politics and added:
    I’d sure think that people handing out Bibles on Halloween are basically begging to get their houses egged. Happy Jesus...
  22. green-street-politics reblogged this from robot-heart-politics and added:
    I definitely immediately thought this was an article about Jesus-penis costumes…
  23. rynnay reblogged this from aquabutt and added:
    My headache was almost gone, too. To everyone who celebrates Halloween as a religious and spiritual holiday, I’m sorry...
  24. redemancy reblogged this from robot-heart-politics
  25. robot-heart-politics reblogged this from drst and added:
    Jesus-ween sounds like a holiday created especially to celebrate Jesus’ you know what. Just sayin’.
  26. flufflogic said: True story: my local Baptist church is throwing a “Bright Lights Festival”, where everyone dresses brightly and sing songs about the light of Jesus.
  27. gumonasidewalk reblogged this from cognitivedissonance
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  29. theunemployedhistorian reblogged this from sugarazor and added:
    But… But… Hallowe’en is a religious festival. My mind boggles.
  30. sugarazor reblogged this from cognitivedissonance and added:
    “Allah-ween” does sound bad ass though. But yeah, imagine if ANY other religion was handing out religious materials to...
  31. lartisteripuku reblogged this from goddessofcheese