November 10, 2010
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You know, the tendency of our culture to syncretize it and Christianity is appalling.
A friend of mine pointed out a couple of weeks ago that he hadn’t heard as much about those pernicious “hell houses”, which are haunted houses intended to portray what hell will be like, and scare people into the gospel.
Never did approve of those.
But by golly, now comes THIS by way of Living Social: ”Christmas haunted house”. It is Moxley Manor, described as “a Christmas-themed fright sure to have you blocking up the chimney flue. At Moxley Manor, some of Santa’s trusty elves have gone turncoat, and they don’t care if you’ve been naughty or nice — they just want to get their little Santy claws on you. Get both fear and cheer when you spend just $10 (regularly $20) and pick up two tickets to the NightScare Before Christmas. The North Pole meets hell hole on November 27, December 4, December 11, and December 18 from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. Let these toy-tooling troublemakers scare your Christmas socks off. You’d better hang on to your reindeer though, because it’s going to be a bumpy ride.”
At least the whole thing pertains to the world’s Santa Claus and his fictitious elves, but considering our propensity for hauling Christ into every crummy thing we come up with, it’s probably only a matter of time before the Christmas story gets worked into it.
Christmas-themed haunted houses! Whatever next?
Wait. Don’t answer that.
I don’t want to know.
