Is Halloween a Satan's Holiday?

Question

This is two differant questions but have to do with the same thing.

If dressing up for Halloween is a Devil's Holiday, why isen't a Dressed up Santa Claus "also evil"?

Why are Christian Church of all relgions not agains this LIE, there is no Santa Clause?

I know the Catholic are totally back wards to the other Christian Churches, they believe in the Saints and I can understand I guess why they do it, but why the real Christians go along with this Santa Claus?

I know Christmas is the birth of Jesus Christ, where did the lie of Santa Claus come in at?

I am not downing anyone for dressing up for Halloween I have done it too, and I am guilty of the Santa Claus with my son, but I got to thinking this is WRONG....

I am a Christian, but as a kid and how I was raised, I see the same things are getting passed down to our children.

I don't want to be part of anything evil.

Answer 1

Samhain (pronounced Sah-ween)
is one of four of satans high holidays.

If you are a satanist and or love all he does it makes good sense to celebrate this day/evening.

Answer 2

Halloween is a pagan holiday. Originally called All Hallow's Eve it was a time in the year when the veil between this world and the other side was the thinnest. This was a time when people would go the cemetery and remember there ancestors. Because the veil was so thin people knew their deceased loved ones would hear them calling and come to visit. Halloween is the same as Cinco de Mayo in the Latin culture.

Santa Claus was modeled after an actual person. Saint Nicholas was a person (not sure what country it started in) that would go to poor persons homes and give each child in that home a present to celebrate. He would de this around the same time every year. There is debate about the time.

Pagans also celebrated around this time the Winter Solstice. The solstice was the longest night of the year. Everyone would light up there homes in hopes of coaxing the sun back into the sky. Huge bonfires were lite, candles were left all night, and people celebrated all night to make sure winter would be over soon and spring would start.

Answer 3

Satan, making children rape each other, animal sacrifices? Where do all you fanatics get this crap, the latest movies?! Seriously... if you ask a Pagan, Halloween (or Samhain) is a holiday to remember our deceased loved-ones... if that's evil, then I guess funerals and wakes must be evil, too? For a Christian, they are probably gonna think it's evil, mainly because anyone who isn't Christian (and especially Pagans) are considered to be evil because they've been believing in something other than their narrow concept of God. As for everyone else, it's an excuse to make tons of money on candy, scare some little kids, and rot everyone's teeth out and add to the obesity problem, so basically... it depend on who you ask... but I can tell you for certain that Pagans aren't running around sacrificing crap or torturing young children. Jeez... the sensationalized bullsh** people come up with these days.

Answer 4

The bible says nothing about it being a Satan holiday! Halloween originated when the ancient Celts ended their harvest. For some reason, on that day, the Celts thought that souls that had already passed would come back on that day. That is where the holiday started. Today, Halloween has turned into a really fun holiday that has nothing to do with real evil things.

Answer 5

You have a very good point - but there is a difference between lying and following a tradition. When you follow a tradition, there comes a time when the child learns about the tradition and in return follows the tradition with his/her children. When you live a lie - the truth never comes out, it is always lied about by others - and you don't pass along lies to your children.

The only time Santa would be wrong is if a parent taught their children that there was a Santa and not God - or placed Santa above God.

Very good question.

P.S. - there are similarities - if you are good, you get toys - if you follow God and His will - Heaven is your reward.

Answer 6

Lots and lots of misinformation in the answers posted so far.

As the early Christians spread their faith through northern and western Europe, one of the techniques they used to overcome local resistance was to convert longstanding pre-Christian rituals, religious leaders, and religious occasions into Christian Holy days.

Actually, Halloween grew backwards from a Christian occasion to a neo-pagan one. It is necessary to understand that there was no old pagan religion in most of Europe before the Christian missionaries came. Wicca and most other paganism that we hear about in America today was invented in the United States in the 1950s.

"Samhain" is one of those made-up "ancient holidays." No such thing ever actually existed until the phrase was coined by these two writers in New York City about 50 years ago.

On the other hand, "All Saint's Day" or "All Souls Day," which is November 1, was assembled by the Christians as a way to teach country bumpkins in northern Europe the proper hygenic methods for handling dead bodies and burying dead people.

The faint memories of these things clung to the occasion throughout the period of Christian ascendency in Europe, and that is why the Eve of All Saint's Day is associated with ghosts, ghouls, walking skeletons, demons and other macabre things. It is not because of ancient pagan or satanic rites, but because of the memory of old burial (or the lack of it) methods.

All Saint's Day was called All Hallows in Middle English. To hallow means to bless or to cleanse spiritually.

And it is also true that St. Nicholas was a real person and a church saint. The name was sometimes pronounced Santa Niklaus, from which we get the moniker "Santa Claus." The festival became entangled with Christmas because the church calendar was getting full and very complicated, and most Christians had trouble making the distinction.

The true name of Christmas is The Feast of the Nativity, which makes more sense. People who want to attach some kind of satanic significance to the Feast of the Nativity really need to get a hobby.

Answer 7

I would just enjoy the holidays and not read too much into it. Also, most people have Christmas day off, but on Halloween, most people have to work and not recognize by most places as a day off. It's all good as you don't read too much into it and get carried away.

Answer 8

It's only wrong if you make it wrong. When our daughter was young she went to October Fest., not Halloween Parties, then at Christmas we taught her about Santa Clause, just like we taught her about Little Red Riding Hood and the other Fairy Tales. She did not believe that Santa was a man who came down our chimney and left her presents. She grew-up knowing that Christmas was not necessary the Birthday of Christ, but it was the day we celebrate it

Answer 9

Halloween is not a Satanist holiday. It was originally derived from a Pagan holiday, called All Hallows Eve. And, no, Pagans aren't satanic.

Answer 10

Yes Halloween is pretty much Satan's celebration day. If you ask any satan worshipper, wiccan, or anybody like that the biggest day for them is Halloween. Many of them have saiances, animal sacrifices, human sacrifices, and even force children to rape other children on this day.
Many Halloween traditions have their origin in Satanism. For example carving pumpkins came from saiances. The people wanted to remember the face of the spirit they saw so they carved it into a pumkin.
I am a Christian and I do not participate in Halloween. My church offers an alternative which is a Harvest Festival where children can play games to win candy prizes.
It's unfortunate that Christmas has been so commercialized and that Santa is a bigger deal than Jesus. I think most Christians don't believe in Santa and understand that Jesus birth is the miracle of Christmas.

Answer 11

Halloween is consider by many religions to be a satan holiday's - because it is held on a witches sabbath. Christmas is based on a religious holiday - and Santa Claus is for the children and their belief in God/Jesus!@