2006-09-19 02:24:10 · 41 answers · asked by MAK 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
No but I have always felt it's like begging for candy....
2006-09-19 02:31:35 · answer #1 · answered by ▒Яenée▒ 7 · 4⤊ 3⤋
No. Hallowe'en is "All Hallows Eve". It is the night before All Saint's Day. It's actually a Christian holiday.
It's not "samhain" (pronounced SOW-win). Samhain falls on the night of the last full moon of October or the first one of November, or something like that. Some Wiccans denounce Hallowe'en as a time Christians make fun of Pagans.
There's no reason Christians can't celebrate Hallowe'en. It's a great time to give out Bibles along with the candy. You'll never have a better time to reach so many people.
2006-09-20 00:43:27 · answer #2 · answered by The Notorious Doctor Zoom Zoom 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Nope.
I think it's a creative outlet for kids and their parents. It gives the kids a chance to get out and run around after dark with their friends, which is something of a rare treat at that age. And in my opinion, the satanic aspect is a non-issue. Young kids don't think about that at all, and the older ones are smart enough to know better.
The flood of candy is a little more of a concern to me, given the obesity epidemic in this country, but the parents can deal with that, and dole it out a bit at a time.
As to taking candy from strangers - there's a world of difference between going to someone's door on Halloween, and being lured into someone's car by a bag of candy. One is an organized, regular activity that any kid over 5 knows about. And up to at least age 10, the kids hopefully are out there with their parents. The other is something that maybe 1 in a million kids has actually seen. Any child young enough to fall for this would hopefully be near a parent or responsible adult most of the time any way.
2006-09-19 02:35:04 · answer #3 · answered by Ralfcoder 7 · 4⤊ 3⤋
You replied your very own question as you assert "I purely settle for it from friends that I have faith". you could not have faith strangers. Even halloween is a dying trip for toddlers simply by fact of have faith subject concerns. Many cities now have banned Halloween trick or treating and function a controlled social gathering on the community midsection or a interior of sight college for the youngsters to have exciting and assemble some candy.
2016-12-15 10:27:22 · answer #4 · answered by edelmann 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
About the satanic holiday, no. There is no worship of satan, implied, subliminally, or otherwise.
As a parent, I'm not happy with all the candy. I'd rather have apples, nuts, tooth brushes, tooth paste, maybe little toys given out.
The origins of Hallowed E'en comes from recreating the story of how spirits and demons would assail folk, and symbolized how people will try to appease the spirits. I do think that we should talk about these things. But no, I don't agree it honours Satan.
2006-09-19 02:30:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
I think people take things far too seriously these days, Halloween is great for the kids, and as long as proper safety precautions are in place like a parent or other adult taknig their kids round trick or treating where is the harm in it?
I don't however see why it would be classed as a satanic holiday as Halloween, All-hallows or Samhain was a way of honouring the dead.
2006-09-19 02:35:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
Good Grief...
It isn't satanic...
"Halloween had its beginnings in an ancient, pre-Christian Celtic festival of the dead. The Celtic peoples, who were once found all over Europe, divided the year by four major holidays. According to their calendar, the year began on a day corresponding to November 1st on the modern day Gregorian calendar. The date marked the beginning of winter. Since they were pastoral people, it was a time when cattle and sheep had to be moved to closer pastures and all livestock had to be secured for the winter months. Crops were harvested and stored. The date marked both an ending and a beginning in an eternal cycle."
It is Celtic.
2006-09-19 02:26:09 · answer #7 · answered by MoMattTexas 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋
I disagree totally and wholeheartedly.
Halloween is merely a holiday for children to exercise their imaginations and have fun dressing up in make-believe costumes and masks. It may, in fact, help dispel fears if the parents explain to them what dressing up and making believe is all about. It also gives adults an opportunity to be children again and dress up in weird, strange costumes. Satanic? They're not attending any rituals or sacrificing animals or anything. Wake up, be real and stop making something out of nothing. Leave it alone and let others enjoy themselves.
I do disagree of the idea of going door to door... some people do not subscribe to the holiday and should be left alone. Like... me!
2006-09-19 02:31:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
No, it isn't a satanic holiday. People who spout this nonsense display their pathetic ignorance of history. It began as a harvest festival, pure and simple. It paid modest respect to earlier superstitions and what today are known as "old wives' tales" much the same as we now celebrate the Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus. Which of these three would you characterise as "satanic"?
As for taking candy from strangers - it was tradition for small gifts to be handed out during different festivities within one's local community. You could not readily travel from your hamlet or village to the next, so you didn't recieve those little treats from strangers - you knew everyone in your community and they knew you. Only modern-day greed impels parents to drive their kids to distant neighborhoods carrying many bags they hope to fill with goodies. It ain't the holiday, it's the cluckin' turkeys like that who fark it up for the rest of us. You one of them, perhaps?
2006-09-19 02:35:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
Good to see you tackle the big, important issues head on.
Halloween was originally A catholic festival , a feast day to pay homage to all the saints, so your idea that Halloween is a 'satanic' holiday is so stupidly and typically American it's not funny.
You take 'candy' from strangers, too. Ever been shopping for groceries and taken a free sample of food, like ice cream, or sausages, or stir-fried curry, or museli bars --- from a representative from a major supermarket chain? Hypocrite!
2006-09-19 02:29:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 5⤋
I agree to the first part in a way. That's why I only let my daughter take candy from people we know. Satanic holiday, No.
2006-09-19 02:26:21 · answer #11 · answered by mamadeira_09 3 · 5⤊ 3⤋