subject.  If you think that this may deeply offend or deeply traumatize you, then you might not want to read it. ALL HALLOWS' EVE, or Halloween, originated in the 7th century AD. It was celebrated on 13 May and was a night for remembering deceased saints and martyrs. The date was later changed to November 1 in order to Christianize the pagan holidays Beltane and Samhain -- festivals of summer, winter and fire. The Catholic Church attempted to make a very popular pagan festival an official holiday of Catholicism.  But the truth is that Samhain was celebrated for many centuries before "Halloween" was ever invented.  In fact, there are many groups that celebrate Samhain even today. A lot of Protestants did not approve of "Halloween".  In many areas of early America, Halloween was considered to be so evil that it was banned.  But later on as waves of immigrants from Europe came over the celebration of Halloween began to spread and today it has been overwhelming accepted by most of society. When I was growing up, most children would dress up as ghosts, cartoon characters or super heroes on Halloween. But today, Halloween has become much more "edgy" and much more "seductive". "Halloween costumes for 7- and 8-year-old girls and even younger have become downright titillating, and for tweens and teens, the vast majority of those sold in stores and on the Internet are unabashedly sexually alluring." But is this a good thing?  In a recent article for the Washington