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Texas man convinced his county to ban "hello" for being too satanic

Popkin
Oct 13, 2025
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Once upon a time in 1997, a campaign was started by one very religious man to replace the word “hello” with the less satanic greeting “Heaveno!” Canales campaigned to change his town’s official greeting and was successful. He even had a website dedicated to “Heavano!” which is archived here on the Wayback Machine.

Being upset that …

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