I see by some of the questions on this board that a fair amount of Christians avoid celebrating Hallowe'en because it being pagan in origin.
Why is then that they celebrate Christmas and Easter despite these two holidays (and the time of year in which they fall) are pagan in origin?
Christmas - Christmas trees, Yule logs, present giving, celebrations at year end in general - all of these stem from pagan festivals such as Yule, the Winter Equinox and Saturnalia.
Easter - celebrated during the Spring Equinox and the name alone stems from Anglo-Saxon mythology, Eostre (pronounced the same way). Many other religions had similar myths to the reserection of Jesus aswell - in Greek mythology Persephone returned from the underworld at the beginning of Spring, Phrygian mythology had an omnipotent deity that went to sleep in at the Winter Equinox and they had festivals at the dawn of Spring to awaken him.
So why do some Christians have a problem with one but not these two?
2006-10-26 22:19:13 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Metharose: thanks, I did wonder why Halloween wasn't absorbed by Christianity to be honest.
2006-10-26 22:24:54 · update #1
Aaron: I think you'll find that people gave each other presents during other winter and end of year festivals before 1AD.
2006-10-26 22:32:05 · update #2
kentgru: Crime happens more often outside of Halloween. As for your claim on human sacrifices, that's just propaganda and you know it.
2006-10-26 22:36:16 · update #3
David B: Christianity didn't replace Christmas or Easter, it simply absorbed and unified them. That doesn't constitute a victory it's a comprimise, a draw.
BTW: To say that pagan religious are inherently 'dark' when Christians were the ones who when around hunting them down is incredibly ingorant and self-righteous of you.
2006-10-27 02:17:49 · update #4
Check out my Easter protest at the first link below. :-) I've had it online since 2003.
2006-10-26 22:22:54 · answer #1 · answered by Pastor Chad from JesusFreak.com 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Halloween is shortened from All Hallows' evening which has its origins contained in the historic Celtic competition of Samhain a celebration of the best of the harvest. in spite of the indisputable fact that it became an afternoon on which many northern eu Pagan traditions or religious gala's were celebrated!! 2 Popes Gregory III and Gregory IV moved the old All Saints' Day from would 13 itself the date of a pagan holiday to attempt to hijack the pagan competition.
2016-12-05 06:55:47 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question. I'm a Christian, and I don't celebrate anything other than the birth-of-Christ Day. NO paganism or satanic-inspired holidays for this child of God. You're wrong about the giving of gifts part though. It's based on the 3 wise men bringing gifts to to Jesus upon his birth, not from "yule,"or any other pagan tradition. Although, it's obvious that presents become more of theme around Christmas, more than the celebration of Christ's birth, in the mainstream. Unfortunately.
2006-10-26 22:27:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I've always known Christmas as celebrating the birth of Christ and Easter as celebrating the day Jesus rose from the dead...
Is there another day of the year when people openly celebrate satanic things? Even if you have no beliefs whatsover on Halloween... you have to admit that a ton of crime happens on this day. Many cults use Halloween to sacrifice humans.
Ghouls, Ghosts, Demons are a lot worse than Santa and the Easter bunny!
I dress up at Halloween and give out candy...
2006-10-26 22:25:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because, to some extent, it's a bit more blatant in it's Pagan roots. Add to that the lack of connection to Christ's life-events (unlike Christmas or Easter), and people start to feel a bit uncertain about it...
2006-10-27 02:18:38 · answer #5 · answered by ArcadianStormcrow 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because The days that were incorporated were mainly observed in the Mediterranean area when they were incorporated. The day of Halloween was more of a Northwestern European tradition so it wasn't assimilated.
2006-10-26 22:22:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
because it is luciferian worship and an afront to followers of the one true God.
most people do not realize this and see it as fun, I am not judging here believe me,as to christmas and easter, these were in fact pagan feasts in origin but as christianity became the religon of europe the church replaced these with events relating to Jesus.
paganism is related to darkness and as Jesus overcame the darkness, imposing christian feasts over pagan ones is a sign of christs victory.
2006-10-26 22:39:25 · answer #7 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Victims of Zionism
2006-10-26 22:21:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christians have problems with everything, even the things they do in secret.
2006-10-26 22:21:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe because those don't have a such negative matter?
2006-10-26 22:24:31 · answer #10 · answered by bezsenný 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋