Blog:Wmluke/Halloween in the Bible Belt

From www.ChopStork.com

My friend Sara's account of Halloween in the Bible Belt:

When I was living in Tulsa a group of friends and I decided to go to a haunted house on Halloween. Now, what does a haunted house mean to you? Ghosts and witches, right? Well, apparently in Oklahoma, churches as fundraisers put on haunted houses. Actually, "haunted house" is a misnomer. It is actually a "scared straight" house.

Anyway, we paid our money and walked in. We were treated to scenes of drunken car crashes, gang rape, a drug den, a kid sticking a gun in his mouth and pulling the trigger as his parents argued in the next room, and other sights. Then Satan appeared, and declared that all of our souls belonged to him. We walked through a room of clowns dancing around a broken Christ, carrying signs "Kick Jesus, $1".

Then we then were saved by a bloody, backlit Christ on the cross. Finally, the scariest moment: at the exit, church members waited to ask if we had accepted Christ as our savior. I got into a twenty-minute argument with one girl about the existence of hell, and then my friends dragged me away.

There you are, Halloween in the Bible Belt. In the future, we must all beware of what fundamentalists think of as "a fun time".