{"id":3053,"date":"2011-10-31T11:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T11:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/10\/dumbest-halloween-post-of-the-day.html"},"modified":"2011-10-31T11:44:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T11:44:00","slug":"dumbest-halloween-post-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/10\/dumbest-halloween-post-of-the-day.html","title":{"rendered":"Dumbest Halloween post of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

So I\u2019m reading this little bit<\/a> by ABC news.\u00a0 The usual \u2018water is wet\u2019 let\u2019s make a story where there isn\u2019t one approach to journalism.\u00a0 And the usual gang of suspects jumps into the comments section to do everything from debate rationally to throw out idiocy and stupidity.\u00a0 The best one I read?\u00a0 It had to be this:<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of the seasonal Holidays are pagan in origin. When the christian church was created by Constantine in the 2nd Century, it embraced these holiday dates and tied them into their own created holidays, such as Christmas, All Souls and All Saints Days. This was done to try to bring the Celts and other pagan communities into the church for the purpose of politically unifying Europe and the middle east into one empire under Constantine. The Pope was created as the spiritual\/ political head, reporting to the Emporor and remained so until Henry VIII created his own church and spiritual head who reported to Henry.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wow.\u00a0 Where to begin.\u00a0 Not that the Catholic Church was started by Constantine, but apparently the whole Christian church was started by him.\u00a0 And of course all of those holidays Christians came up with were just mirroring pagan practices (as opposed to their own celebrations based on Jewish customs and celebrations in light of the Christ event).\u00a0 That\u2019s an old one.\u00a0 Wrong, but old.\u00a0 And no, Constantine did not live in the 2nd century, just in case some of my more informed readers were thrown off by the timeline.\u00a0 Nor did the Pope answer to the emperor until Henry VIII.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

When I read things like this on the Internet, I hope and pray that it\u2019s just some kid still in elementary school trying to act big.\u00a0 But then, it makes me wonder what they are teaching in elementary schools.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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