HALLOWEEN, and the weeks of preparation for it, becomes more and more ghastly every year. These lovely skull planters are sold at the supermarket chain, Trader Joe’s. What kind of sick minds came up with these in the back offices of the retail giant? They’re even advertised with a lengthy piece in the corporation’s mailer:

Whether you’re looking for some seasonal, window skill decor or an actual, skull-sized statement piece, we’ve got you covered.

Supposedly a time of fun, Halloween surrounds children with the macabre, the monstrous, the ugly, the aggressive and the grotesque. They are further desensitized to the occult. Their innocence — the source of their greatest fun — is undermined.

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Kyle writes:

These decorated skulls are part of the Mexican holiday, Dia De Los Muertos or Day of the Dead. I’m in agreement with the core of what you’re saying, especially how children are surrounded with too much macabre imagery during this season, the prevalence of these skulls in American stores is obviously a globalist agenda that aims to blend the Americanized version of Halloween (ie. Trick ‘r Treating, spooky costumes, candy, Jack-o’-lanterns, bobbing for apples, etc.) with Mexican pagan traditions that date back to Aztec times. The corporate global elite love selling occult symbols while melding cultural novelties together in attempt to make everyone exactly the same.

Susan Harris of American Thinker compared Halloween and Day of the Dead in her 2017 article, “Mexico’s Day of the Dead Takes Over Halloween”.

It is the spiritual aspect of this I find most disturbing.  Building altars for the dead in order to lure them back for a visit is antithetic to traditional American Judeo-Christian beliefs.  One has to believe that this big push is part of a larger multicultural aim to erase the lines of our traditional belief system and smudge it into a nice globalist multi-colored blur.

From a Brain Games book to spandex leggings – you can click on this gallery of pictures of Day of the Dead merchandise in my area.  Even this month’s cover of Better Homes & Gardens implores you to “Celebrate the Day of the Dead.”  Inside they tell us the holiday is “finding new life north of the border” with its “vibrant decorations and seriously delicious food.”  It urges us to “bring a little passion” to our next party and learn about its traditions.  PBS host Pati Jinich explains “Sugar skulls defy death.  They take sadness and make it sweet.”  One page adorned only with skull-pierced cocktails explains how the celebration on Nov. 1 & 2 “has its origins in ancient Aztec times and ties in with All Saints Day and All Souls Day.”  Tying it into the Catholic Church apparently gives it the green light.

But the Day of the Dead is not All Saints Day or All Souls Day; and it’s not Halloween, and never will be.  Well, I may be wrong on that: I doubt an overtly secular society which reveres its zombie parties, video games and flesh-eating, blood-spattered cult culture will revolt against a “new” holiday that so fully embraces the death it already craves.

Laura writes:

Yes, it’s a sinister death fixation.

But it cannot be rectified with “Judeo-Christian” beliefs.

Sophia writes:

I was going to write as Kyle did, without claiming any expertise on the subject, that they look precisely like Día de Muertos imagery. While its pervasiveness outside of Mexico is certainly new, it doesn’t seem that the imagery of the skulls themselves is the invention of sick modern minds, though I don’t know how identical it is to the Mexican traditions. It is very sad to see this pagan ugliness revived and spread and to think of the great graces that Our Lady of Guadalupe gave to the Aztec people.

Two years ago I read a very detailed historical account, Our Lady of Guadalupe by Warrel H. Carrol, of the context around the apparition. It was fascinating and made me appreciate the apparition much more, as I had neglected fostering any devotion towards it thanks to the unattractive and even “ghetto” way that many Mexican Americans in Texas present it.

I include some Catholic skull imagery. ;-)

It’s Magdalen of Night Light by Georges de la Tour.

Laura writes:

Even ancient pagans, I believe, used skulls with some sense of religious significance. To make planters out of leering and jeering ceramic skulls for normal household decoration? Yuck…. and ugly.

Artists have often used skulls for a good purpose — to remind us of our mortality.

Dance of Death, Hans Holbein

But that’s not what these skulls everywhere represent. They are a cheap celebration of death and a glorying in death. America needs an exorcism. And fast!

We are surrounded by the occult.

Kyle writes:

I was at Walgreens last night and found this shelf in the Halloween candy aisle.

Laura writes:

Multiply that by millions of similar displays in similar stores.

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