From the AP:

NEWNAN, Ga. - Across the Bible Belt this Halloween, some little ghosts and goblins might get shooed away by the neighbors — and some youngsters will not be allowed to go trick-or-treating at all — because the holiday falls on a Sunday this year.

"It's a day for the good Lord, not for the devil," said Barbara Braswell, who plans to send her 4-year-old granddaughter Maliyah out trick-or-treating in a princess costume on Saturday instead.

Kids across the world will tell you it's not a day about the Lord, or the Devil, and never has been, no matter what the day falls on. It's a day about candy!

People that confuse it with anything else are just plain stupid.

It's bad enough that we live in such a paranoid and fear-ridden society that each year in my neighborhood there's less and less kids each year. Heck it's practically a trickle now. And with less kids, there's less houses offering treats, which enourages less kids, in a spiral of anti-sugary sweetness no one should have to endure.

Each of the children that *do* arrive at our house, is so polite and nice, that it makes me sad to see so few of them. So I try to make up for it by handing out heaping wads of candy. I can't get more kids out for the day, but at least I can try to make it fun for the kids that do.

So it pisses me off that people are trying to screw with Halloween, which has ceased to be about anything remotely religious eons ago.

It's about the candy, man. And letting some kids have some fun once in a while.