Halloween is evil?

Question

Can someone please explain why Halloween is sooooo horrible. Its just a bunch of kids dressed is silly/scarey costumes going door to door to getting candy. And is everything associated with Halloween bad as well, like pumpkins, scarecrows, bats....etc.? Do people that think Halloween is bad think that the Mexican holiday 'Day of the Dead' is as well? Please only serious answers.

Answer 1

If that was all it was, it wouldn't be so bad.

However, many Pagan religions and the Satanic church consider it their most holy day.

In Denver you cannot adopt a black or white cat in the month of October because so many of them were being used for animal sacrafice.

There are other things associated with Halloween: monsters, murderers, witches, satan, evil in general.

The very idea of "Trick or Treat" is that if you don't give us candy, we will do something horrible to you.

I don't know enough about the Day of the Dead to answer that part of you question.

Answer 2

It's partly the association with Samhain, the first three nights of November, a Celtic festival marking the ending of the summer season. The church converted the Celtic festival to All Hallows Eve and All Souls Day. I've seen horror movies associating the Celtic final harvest with child sacrifice, but that's likely slander. Some Celts worshipped Cernunnos, a forest god with antlers like a stag, and Christians accused them of worishipping the horned devil. But of course all the themes are offensive to Biblical folk. Calling up the dead in forbidden, witchcraft is forbidden, devils, etc. All stuff believers are supposed to shun and take seriously. Since it's all superstitious nonsense I think mocking such things it and making fun of it all is the best thing to do.

Answer 3

Many years ago religious imbiciles believed that Halloween was the day that the dead rose from their graves and the only way to be safe if you were out was to dress as a ghost yourself. Most rational human beings of today realize this is all false as ghosts are a manifestation of your subconscious influenced by electromagnetic activity in the area. However it's a great way to keep your kids amused for an evening and it keeps the people who work at candy companies employed so why mess with it?

I think most of the whiners are basically a bunch of self-righteous prudes who have nothing in their own life and cannot stand to see someone else enjoying themselves so they have to make everyone as miserable as they are. You also see these whiners at work around Christmas too.

Answer 4

I just want to clarify something. The trick or treat phrase came from an old Irish peasant tradition. They would send the village children around to collect items for the harvest festival, and if they didn't want bad luck, they'd give the kids the items they asked for, hence the phrase trick or treat. The children weren't doing anything to the pepole that didn't give them anything, it was the fairies.

And as for Halloween being the most holy day for a Satanist, that's not true. Their birthday is the most important holiday for Satanists.

Answer 5

As this article from Wikipedia shows, Halloween was such a terrible, discusting holiday the Christians took it for themselves. Go Figure, Now some Christian fanatics want to claim it bad AGAIN.

"The term Halloween, and its older spelling Hallowe'en, is shortened from All-hallow-even, as it is the evening before "All Hallows Day".[1] In Ireland, the name was All Hallows Eve and this name is still used by some older people. Halloween was also sometimes called All Saints' Eve. The holiday was a day of religious festivities in various northern European pagan traditions, until it was appropriated by Christian missionaries and given a Christian interpretation. In Mexico November 1st and 2nd are celebrated as the "Dia de Los Muertos" Day of the Dead. Halloween is also called Pooky Night in some parts of Ireland, presumably named after the púca, a mischievous spirit. In Australia it is sometimes referred to as "mischief night", by locals."

Answer 6

Umm Halloween is only "bad" if you make it bad. Some people freak out and think it's a way for the devil to get all of us....which I think is really silly. Halloween is a fun night for families and children. There is nothing evil, God is not upset because we enjoy Halloween. We always have a great time. We decorate the front porch, carve pumpkins, and my son always goes trick-or-treating. It's just a really fun night for our whole family. People need to stop being so serious and have some fun.

Answer 7

Halloween has pagan roots, so that may make it "evil" to some people.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/7280/samhain.html

Not only is Samhain the end of autumn; it is also, more importantly, the end of the old year and the beginning of the new. Celtic New Year’s Eve, when the new year begins with the onset of the dark phase of the year, just as the new day begins at sundown. There are many representations of Celtic Gods with two faces, and it surely must have been one of them who held sway over Samhain. Like his Roman counterpart Janus, he would straddle the threshold, one face turned toward the past, in commemoration of those who died during the last year, and one face gazing hopefully toward the future, mystic eyes attempting to pierce the veil and divine what the coming year holds. These two themes, celebrating the dead and divining the future, are inexorably intertwined in Samhain, as they are likely to be in any New Year’s celebration.


As a feast of the dead, this was the one night when the dead could, if they wished, return to the land of the living, to celebrate with their family, tribe, or clan. And so the great burial mounds of Ireland (sidhe mounds) were opened up, with lighted torches lining the walls, so the dead could find their way. Extra places were set at the table and food set out for any who had died that year. And there are many stories that tell of Irish heroes making raids on the Underworld while the gates of faery stood open, though all must return to their appointed places by cockcrow.

Answer 8

The devils holiday is bad for this reason when we idolize goblems and witches and all the other things. We than put God and all he stands for in second place. I for one donot want to place anything before God even for one day. Tomorrow is not promised to anyone. I do not want to face judgement on the one day I put the devil and all his evil ahead of my Lord and Savior. Christrian are all-ways compromising on things because every one else does.Look what happen to Adam when Eve compromised
paslm 1 tells you in two verses what is real and what is not.
Blessed is the man that walks not in the consel of the un-Godly , or stands in the way of a sinner, or sits in the seat of the scornful.
But his delight is in the law of the Lord and in the law of the Lord does he meditate day and night.(24/7/365)

Answer 9

Holloween is short for All Hollows Eve. It is the day before (eve of) All Saints Day, November 1. It began as a Christian holy day, but has been influenced by a Celtic pagan celebration which fell on the same day. Today, it is mostly a commercial holiday so there is no harm in it as long as you don't actually believe the witches and goblins stuff. Some fundamentalist Christians are so up-tight about anything not of Christian origin that they refuse to participate in Holloween celebrations. It's just repressed fear that makes them feel that way.

Answer 10

Halloween began as a pagan Celtic belief that on a certain day the spirits of the dead would come to earth and haunt the living. People would dress up as ghosts in an attempt to confuse them. Obviously, the Christian missionaries thought that this was in horribly bad taste (people were actually having fun, and that's just not biblical), so they had to "demonize" it.

Answer 11

Jude 6 and the angels that did not keep their original position but forsook their own proper dwelling place he has reserved with eternal bonds under dense darkness for the judgmen of the great day.
Genesis 6: Told how the angels left there place in heaven and came to the earth and co habited with women. This was a sin.
They clothed themselves in human bodies and looked like men.
Bred a hybried race of bullys. The violence became so bad god distroyed the world of that time with a flood. That flood waters fell in Oct 31. The demons had women and children who died in that flood. To continue living they went back into spirit bodies.
They have celebrated that day or had humans celebrate that day since that time. Only Noah and his family were saved.
That is what they did only there costume was to look like a man.
But they were spirit creatures. So it was a costume.
Some call it all souls day. It was the first time God ever took action against these fallen angels.
Should we join in there celebration.
The myth behind the Jack O Latern is that Jack was thrown out of heaven and forced to wander the earth.
Revelation 12:7 It wasn't Jack who was thrown out of heaven but satan and his demons.