In our neighborhood live a handful of families who don’t do trick-or-treating because its associated with some deep evil. And yet, bombing Iraq is A-OK with them. Supporting a president who does the bidding of power-hungry corporations , guts safety net after safety net in defense and support of his “base” (that’s what he called the rich folks at a dinner (“Some people call you the elite. I call you my base”) is all unassociated , for them, with some of the darkest evils let loose upon this earth, where “capitalism” and “global dominance” reign as God. Happy non-Halloween! (BTW, I’m all for doing a All-Hallowed Eve of Saints service at a church on this night. I wish I had such a church).

This strikes me in much as the same way as the sign in the yard of a nearby house “Jesus is the Reason for the Season” (right alongside the Bush Cheney sign this past Holiday season). It’s not quite on that level of sacrilege, but the way in wich the Christmas sign shows a cluelessness about what is good; what Jesus is all about, this Halloween boycotting combined with a blindness to what Bush is actually accomplishing shows a similar poverty of knowing what evil really is.