Argumentative Essay About Halloween

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Who ever said Halloween has to be evil?

This is a very hot topic issue with me! And I truly hope many others that either haven’t spoken out against it yet, or haven’t known how to speak against it. Really start? Maybe, it’s because somehow so few have been educated on halloween’s history. Or the history of witches and witchcraft in our Country and around the world. Why, is it that so many attach or try to attach witches with Halloween? Witches have been seen in books and movies as ugly, evil and cruel! They were never suppose to become role models to our society, or children ever! In fact most don’t know what really has happened in there secret meetings, because they remain secret for a very specific …show more content…

If you think butchering an innocent animal for its blood is evil? Because I certainly do! These crimes and a whole lot worse are connected to coven’s and witchcraft. Including dare I say human sacrifice? Who would ever teach or want there children to repeat type of morbid evil to the core behavior. Oh there will be those who say it’s not so bad? Or so what? Because they’ve been desensitized to just how evil and cruel they really are by books and movies that show them as good witches or trying to repackage it in a much more friendly seeming way. I’m not saying that everyone who reads a book like harry potter or watches a movie concerning witches will become one. But what we are saying is those are tools whereby far too many, even Christians have become desensitized to the real evils of witch craft. And especially on Oct 31st, Its not right for evil to be promoted or marketed on this day! A day is what you make it! But who in there right mind wants to celebrate evil or anything evil or wrong done to them or there family or any other for that matter? Don’t get me wrong I’m not against the idea of Halloween. When I was a kid, even as I grew older in a way, it was one

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