I have been doing music promotion for twelve years or so, in the last 4 years my life has been opened up to a new world. That is the world of the haunted house called Bloodview. Having fallen in in love with the act of the scare, I quickly started the merge parts of my love for music, into parts of my love of making nightmares happen. Before I knew it I was passing out "Bloodview" flyers with my "band" flyers. I also quickly discovered a real reality. That if I had a flyer with a band that ate live chickens on stage, I would receive more problems passing out flyers for a "charity, non-profit haunted house".
This has resulted in problems, if I put up a flyers in a office, and one person is offended, and that person complains, I have to take down that said flyer. I have been attacked in supermarkets, and I have been called evil, and a satanist. Neither of which is true, but I do not support any church, nor to do I claim any religion. I have my own reasons for that, but I do respect other people's choices on religion. If you want to sit down and talk about my opinions, I would be more then happy to. I do not allow other people to make choices for me, I am my own person.
That being said, if you are a religious person, you are of your right to support any god you wish. You have to right not to celebrate any time of year you choose, you can wear a cross on your sleeve all the time. All I ask is you respect that other people have that same right, respect that because you see Jesus in a log, all I see is a piece of dead wood. I don't stand outside your church and say "you guys are wasting your time" have fun, live life, that is what god wants you to do".
No, I scare people at a haunted house, we give money to a lot of needy programs. We also don't have the million dollar budget to get our name out. We have to do a lot of work on the ground, that is why my experience doing band promotion come in handy, sometimes you have to get dirty to promote. Do you do that for your church? Does your church help others? Does it just help itself? Really now, just remember people in glass houses should not throw stones, and ask yourself this, if haunted houses hurt nobody, then why would your church convince you that we are evil? What is so bad about what we do? Does what we do effect your bottom line? Or do we effect your church's bottom line by taking money away from them? Why is Halloween so bad? Does it really bother you that much? Why? Just wondering.
