Have an unholy Halloween
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It's a time for "tracts and treats."
His 10-year-old daughter, Tyler, will dress up as a princess, go door to door and offer Christian literature, or tracts, as thanks for lollipops and candy bars. Son Tyler, 15, will stay home and give "Testamint" candy and "Scared Yet?" tracts to ghosts and goblins who stop by.
Even at the Cypress Lake United Methodist Church pumpkin sale, a man drove by and hollered something about the devil, said Don Sell, a pumpkin-selling volunteer.
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"She was very upset, very confused," Hoffmann said of her daughter. "There was no warning, whatsoever. It was not age-appropriate. I wouldn't go to see something like that even with a teenager."
"It completely traumatized my son," Biggs said. "They mask themselves as a haunted house, and it clearly is not a haunted house. Ghosts and goblins you expect in a haunted house. Graphic portrayals of suicide and spouse abuse you don't. There should be a warning." ...
"They threw a liquid at you so you'd think it's the woman's blood after she shoots herself," Biggs said. "They portray it to be real blood, not like a haunted house where you know it's all pretend."
The pastor doesn't apologize for springing fire and brimstone on his guests.
"We don't hide that it's a church, and there is definitely a religious connotation to a church, but there is a religious connotation to Halloween, also," he said. "Halloween is more than trick-or-treat. It is the high holy day for Satanism."
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