These are dark days, so why are we adding to them by dressing up and pretending to be evil?

Why are you putting a witch costume on your little girl?

Why are you, oh, let’s say, a pretty teenage girl, dressing up as a “sexy nurse?” How about you guard your beauty, go to college and become a “real nurse”, find your Prince Charming, get married, and show him your “sexy”. That way, you can still be a nurse, and you can still be sexy, just not tonight, on Halloween. The stupidest holiday known to mankind.

I don’t care where it came from, or what it all “really means”. I don’t care if it’s all rooted in some Christian tradition. And I don’t care if the Satanists hijacked the day and decided it would be their favorite day of the year, or whatever. I don’t care about all that.

What I do care about is today. The here and now. These days. These times.

These dark days of real-life murder and mayhem. These days in which serial killers really do exist and really do carry out their plans. These days in which blood and gore and horror are everywhere, for real. What’s wrong with us, that we want to make-believe that we are witches, ghosts, and monsters?

Whether you believe that the occult is real or not, it doesn’t matter. By dressing up as something “evil”, you are emulating and making light of the darkness that is in the world.

And that is not ok.