Go to any bowling alley this Halloween and you're bound to find it full of dubs avoiding the evil trick-or-treaters.
Halloween's Coming! Time To Reserve Your Bowling Lanes!
by Nosferatu 8 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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Gopher
At the "Bowling Hall of Fame and Museum" in St. Louis, Missouri (across from Busch Stadium), they explain a religious twist to the background of bowling. In an earlier century, church basements had a simple bowling game. The pins represented the demons or evil things. Your knocking the pins down represented a defeat of evil.
I'm not kidding.
JW's who go bowling to avoid demonic activities on 10/31 are participating in an old religious tradition.
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Gopher
OK, here's some verification of the religious origins of bowling:
http://www.ebetcom.com/bowling-game.htm
Bowling Game History
An attempt to trace the bowling game history takes us into the ancient Egyptian era. Bowling balls and pins were found in the tomb of an Egyptian king who died in 5200 B.C. In Germany, the bowling game can be traced back to the fourth century when the game was considered part of the religious ceremony. People who had the prowess to knockdown bowling pins were considered of good character. British kings Edward II and Richard II banned the bowling game because they felt that the people wasted too much time on the sport. Bowling has been popular in America since the Colonial days. The current ten pin bowling game can be traced to the German game that began with ninepins.
Standardization in the bowling game was brought about during the 19th century when the American Bowling Congress was established in 1985. {They meant 1895, not 1985} The Women?s International Bowling Congress was started in 1916. Today, the bowling game has come a long way from its humble beginnings. Online bowling game too has found many keen enthusiasts.
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RunningMan
Wow, bowling appears to be just as pagan as Halloween itself. In fact, it probably has more religious origins than many of the things the Witnesses ban. Someone should inform the Society.
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Nosferatu
Okay, so bowling's out. Don't the JWs have an Awake on Halloween that they could put in the kids' candy bags, and ask for donations from their Unicef boxes?
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Gopher
Another reason bowling is unfit for those JW's with "BIBLE trained consciences" (tm), is that you keep SCORE in bowling. Many bowling centers even have automated scoring systems.
In the book of Galatians it tells us "not to be stirring up competition among yourselves", and so any sport where you keep score could be ruled out as fit for a "True Christian" who resides in the "spiritual paradise" (copyright, Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses).
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Dawn
My mom used to hand out brochures to the kids at Halloween - poor little things - stood there big eyed not quite knowing what to do.
So glad I'm out of that craziness!
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boy@crossroads
MAN i WISH I DID HALLOWEEN AS A KID !!!! We never did the bowling thing. we usually just turned the lights out on the outside of the house and went away somewhere to eat halloween night.
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justhuman
CHARLEZ TAZE RUSSELL DIED ON HALLOWEENS DAY!!!
STRANGE INDEED
LEADING SATANISTS DIED THAT DAY
JUST A THOUGHT