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| Photo by Michael R. Holzworth, via Wikimedia |
A community of pagans in the NOHO Arts District is
frustrated with what the fall-time holiday has become. What they celebrate as
Samhain, one of the Celtic quarter days, has become too commercialized and
ridiculous, said Selina Martinez, the owner of a coffee shop in the district,
Auras of Avalon. To her, it’s just a big, outdoor comic-con.
“Before the Catholic church made it all weird, and then Evangelicals
made it all about Satan, it was essentially a high day when the magical world would intersect
the real world,” she said during the interview last night. “Now everyone walks
around, dressed up as their favorite pop culture character, carrying
goody-bags. People decorate their houses with monsters and zombies and hand out
free stuff to people. It’s pretty much exactly like a con.”
She said the worst part of the holiday is that someone at a
local church found out she was a pagan. Now every Halloween they picket her
shop, telling her to stop worshiping Satan.
“I’ve read a little of the Bible. I do remember that the Great Commission says to go and make disciples. Pretty sure the Bible doesn’t
say anything about protesting at coffee shops. Not sure how many disciples
they’ve made doing that.”
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