Maybe the Christianists are slipping!
And from the linked story :

As for Pullman, he confidently expects to be back in the top 10 next year.

His forthcoming book, a novel for adults, is called The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ.

Can't wait!

be awfully bored if they got everything they wanted?

I mean, the Massachusetts Bay Colony wasn't exactly a swinging place.*

*Oops, unless you were accused of being a witch, that is.

My former hometown in Michigan no longer allows Halloween celebrations in schools. They have some sort of "autumn festival" baloney instead. Parents were freaking out over the pagan tendencies their children might develop after wearing a witch, devil or ghost costume. This is a town with only one bookstore and surprise! -- it sells only Christian "books."

I'm not really conversant with the different Christianist sects. But are the anti-Halloweeners also anti-Catholic Christianists? Actually, to make that "points" of inquiry plural, are Catholics considered Christianists?

I worked with a woman at one point, also from the upper Midwest, who explained to me that her whole church pretty much considered Catholics just one step removed from Satan-worshippers (she was Lutheran, I think), so I'm wondering if the fact that it was the Catholic church that coopted All Hallows Eve would make Christianists even more hostile to Halloween.

I grew up in a vaguely Catholic area and am a lapsed vaguely-Catholic person myself. Until that conversation, I had no understanding whatsoever of how much hate festered among some non-Catholic Christians toward Catholics. I mean, yes, I knew being Catholic almost cost JFK the election, but I never really understood why.

Just sayin'.