Yes...next thing you know, they will be telling us that Halloween is a Satanic holiday.

Commercialization has robbed all holidays of their original meaning. But then again, so has Christianization. After the Roman empire became Christianized, the people were not about to give up their festivals. Therefore, the previously "pagan" festivals merely received a Christian face lift. If people actually believe that Christmas and Easter are endorsed by the Bible, they need to dust that thing off and explore between the binding in further detail. However, the festivals, or "holidays," are basically harmless diversions (including Halloween and Valentine's Day), except to my pocketbook.

If people actually believe Christmas is about "baby Jesus wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger," they are grossly out of touch with reality. It is about making a Faustian bargain with Mastercard, so my relatives can have more stuff they don't need.

And yes...The sensationalistic Chick tracts are the most amusing, and they usually have the predominant theme that the Roman Catholic Church is behind every evil and every conspiracy in the world. And somehow, Jack Chick completely misses the fact that Protestants were equally responsible for the bloodletting that occured during the Reformation and "Age of Religious Wars." It was not merely a "return to scriptures and simplicity of the early church" on the part of Protestants. "Protestants" massacred their Anabaptist brethren for their refusal to accept Infant Baptism. However, where is Infant Baptism in the Protestant rallying cry of sola scriptura (scripture alone)?

But, like Rush Limbaugh who completely overlooks, or whitewashes, Republican evils; Jack Chick, either out of ignorance or selectivity, completely overlooks Protestant evils during this turbulent period of history.