Hallowe'en is a big deal here. There are decorations everywhere, and piles of pumpkins outside all the supermarkets.
No doubt it's all a lot of charming, harmless fun. But I can't help noting, if only in passing, the odd lack of synchronicity between, on the one hand, a festival which overtly celebrates paganism, with the use of symbols like witches, ghosts, and the living dead, and, on the other hand, fundamentalist evangelical Christianity. Shome mishtake shurely?
No doubt it's all a lot of charming, harmless fun. But I can't help noting, if only in passing, the odd lack of synchronicity between, on the one hand, a festival which overtly celebrates paganism, with the use of symbols like witches, ghosts, and the living dead, and, on the other hand, fundamentalist evangelical Christianity. Shome mishtake shurely?
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