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Monday, 29 October 2001
Harvest Festival

I saw another flyer today for a "Harvest Festival", described as a safe Christian alternative to Halloween.

I find this truly amusing, given that "Halloween" is a contraction of "All Hallows Evening", the night before All Hallows Day (or All Saints' Day), which was a Christian feast day intended to supplant the pagan festival of Samhain. Which, of course, was a celebration of the last harvest of the year. Oh, the irony.

Then again, these are probably the same people who, blissfully ignorant of the history of their own religion, complain about the abbreviation Xmas as an attempt to "take Christ out of Christmas".

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