Who will stand with me on this???

Question

Halloween is the Devil's holiday, so why are you going to celebrate it with him? I want to know how many Christians are not going tonight. And for you non Christians think about who you serve. God Bless....

Answer 1

I will stand by you.

Answer 2

Um...I think you need to educate yourself. Halloween has NOTHING to do with Satan. It can't, when you consider it has pagan roots, and pagans - post and modern day - did not believe that Satan exists. You can't celebrate an entity that you don't believe in.

You should also educate yourself on exactly where Satan - and the majority of Christian holidays - came from. Satan has horns and hooves because he was perversion of the pagan Horned God, a symbol of male potency and power. He was subverted because it was a great way to "scare" pagans into abandoning their beliefs and converting to Christianity. All of the highest Christian holidays were quite literally stolen from pagans because it was considerably easier to convert people when you were simply "replacing" their current holidays with a new set of holidays that matched. And of course it's preferable to make conversion easy for people to accept - that keeps you from having to kill them all (as the Catholics were long fond of doing to "heretics") and your numbers grow rather than diminish.

But let's just look at some of the Christian holidays that have pagan roots. Candlemas is Imbolc, the celebration of lights at the beginning of February to remind people that it won't always be bitterly cold and the sun will return. Easter is taken from Ostara, right down to the eggs and the rabbit. Christmas is a DIRECT rip-off of Yule. If you don't believe me, look up the traditional Yule colors and celebartions. They involve the Yule log, holly (for the Holly King), gift giving and the colors red and green. And I wouldn't advise that you ever sing "Deck the Halls" again unless you want to invoke God's holy wrath, since it talks about the ANCIENT yuletide carol and seeing the blazing YULE before us. The Yule tree was a decidedly pagan practice until it was "Christianized".

The roots of Halloween go back long before Christianity, and in many cultures dealt directly with honoring their ancestral spirits and those who had passed on. What a shame that you think it is evil to spend a day remembering and honoring your deceased loved ones. It is religious zealots like you that are the reason I am no longer a Christian - despite an uncle who is a minister and a mother who was a church secretary for two decades.

I pity you and your ignorance and hope you will educate yourself. But I know you'll get two sentences into this response and skip the rest.

Answer 3

This is the very reason "religion" turns off so many people. Halloween has been done for years and I have many wonderful memories of dressing up and going trick or treating as a child. I am now 43 and I am a very devoted Christian. My children are as well. We love God and Jesus and spread the love that Christ has for us all everyday. Just like Christmas.. as a child we always had a Chismon tree to honor Christ's birth and we have a birthday cake for Jesus every year but we also have presents and a Christmas tree. Being a Christian is in the way one believes that Jesus died on the Cross to save us all... if you truely believe this how in the world does letting children play dress up and go to neighbors home to share joy and get candy once a year make me any less of a Christian than YOU? Also arent u judging me and isnt that Gods job?????????

Answer 4

Halloween's origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in).

The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom, and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death. Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. On the night of October 31, they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. In addition to causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts thought that the presence of the otherworldly spirits made it easier for the Druids, or Celtic priests, to make predictions about the future. For a people entirely dependent on the volatile natural world, these prophecies were an important source of comfort and direction during the long, dark winter.

To commemorate the event, Druids built huge sacred bonfires, where the people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities.

During the celebration, the Celts wore costumes, typically consisting of animal heads and skins, and attempted to tell each other's fortunes. When the celebration was over, they re-lit their hearth fires, which they had extinguished earlier that evening, from the sacred bonfire to help protect them during the coming winter.

By A.D. 43, Romans had conquered the majority of Celtic territory. In the course of the four hundred years that they ruled the Celtic lands, two festivals of Roman origin were combined with the traditional Celtic celebration of Samhain.

The first was Feralia, a day in late October when the Romans traditionally commemorated the passing of the dead. The second was a day to honor Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit and trees. The symbol of Pomona is the apple and the incorporation of this celebration into Samhain probably explains the tradition of "bobbing" for apples that is practiced today on Halloween.

By the 800s, the influence of Christianity had spread into Celtic lands. In the seventh century, Pope Boniface IV designated November 1 All Saints' Day, a time to honor saints and martyrs. It is widely believed today that the pope was attempting to replace the Celtic festival of the dead with a related, but church-sanctioned holiday. The celebration was also called All-hallows or All-hallowmas (from Middle English Alholowmesse meaning All Saints' Day) and the night before it, the night of Samhain, began to be called All-hallows Eve and, eventually, Halloween. Even later, in A.D. 1000, the church would make November 2 All Souls' Day, a day to honor the dead. It was celebrated similarly to Samhain, with big bonfires, parades, and dressing up in costumes as saints, angels, and devils. Together, the three celebrations, the eve of All Saints', All Saints', and All Souls', were called Hallowmas.

Answer 5

Halloween was first started by Celtic culture, pagans. They believed that once a year, the world of the living and the dead mingled for one day. Trick-or-treating can also be traced back to them. They celebrate this day with a festival every year, including the one going on now at Stonehenge, and the day and night is full of laughter and play, not devil worship.

If you are such an uptight Puritan or Catholic or whatever that you align yourself with that you cannot accept that other people have different beliefs than you, maybe Christ.com is a better site for you. Or better yet, become a clergy-man and preform exorcisms, that sounds fun.

Answer 6

First, I'm neither Pagan nor Christian, and for the record if there is anything I can be said to "serve", it's the truth and that alone.

As for Halloween, I'm intrigued by the Christian mindset against it, considering just how deeply embedded in the Pagan faith Christianity happens to be these days.

Is Halloween based on Pagan traditions? Yes. It's based on the pagan "day of the dead". Trick or treating, in fact, comes from the Pagan tradition of dressing up as spirits and wandering around to collect offerings or else wreak mischief on those who refuse to pay homage to the dead, to remind them either way of the importance of the dead in the world.

That said, though, the Christmas traditions are almost directly imported from the Pagan festival celebrating the winter solstice, with the only major change being the import of Saint Nicholas into things, and even he was given Celtic fairy friends to "Pagan him up" appropriately.

Easter's the same way. Ever wonder what bunnies and eggs have to do with Jesus? The short answer is nothing. They're pagan symbols of fertility (and considering they were picked because of one's prodigious sexual habits and the other because it's the result of sex, getting the kiddies to chase after both seems a bit less innocent in retrospect). Heck, not only do Easter's traditions find root in Pagan traditions, but the holiday itself IS NAMED AFTER A PAGAN GOD.

You'd think considering the holiday it would be named after Jesus, but so little of Christianity actually has anything to do with Christ these days, it doesn't surprise me.

Oh, and for the record, Halloween has not a thing one to do with worshiping Satan, unless you happen to have gotten your ideas of Satan worshiping from the spate of campy B-grade occult horror films littering up the 1980s.

Answer 7

Hi, I am a Christian.Respectfully, what makes you think because Christians dress up and pass out candy to little kids that they are serving the devil. I have to work tonight otherwise I would dress up and pass out candy. The devil does not cross my mind when I see these cute little kids{who are not thinking about the devil}who came knocking on my door and I hear laughter of parents and neighbors watching their kids have fun.The Halloween that we celebrate has nothing to do with some pagan thing hundreds of yrs ago.GODS love is all around with all the neighbors watching out for all the kids roaming around.People do not get out and talk to their neighbors much anymore, they do on Halloween.I don't expect to change your mind but can you see my point?GOD bless

Answer 8

Holloween stopped being the devil's holiday eons ago. I have never met anyone who gave honor to the devil on this day, have you? The children who have fun trick or treating, bobbing apples, attending parties & dressing in costumes only know that they're having fun. Why spoil it for them?

PS: I am a Roman Catholic & I have never once in my 60 yrs of life heard one Catholic say anything against celebrating Halloween.

Answer 9

I am a Christian myself, but you can't judge people for trick-or-treating. Non-Christians are sinners, we are all sinners...they are expected to be that way. People should come together and help show them the right way, not judge them for the wrong. Do you think the innocence of a child looks at it as a Devil's holiday? All they see is fun dressing up and getting candy. I mean Christmas isn't about presents it's about Jesus, yet we still give presents...it's what you make of it. I think it's ok to celebrate it as a fun night with kids dressing up and getting candy. By no means are we standing at an alter praising the devil.

Answer 10

Religion is suppose to help give you a path and lead you through life, but I think it just clouds people's judgement even more. I think people should celebrate Halloween. It is a time to go dress up like a goofball and get candy. Come on doesnt that sound like Fun? Anyways to some people, usually CATHOLICS I think celebrate the Days of the Dead around this time. It is just a time to remember and celebrate the lifes of the family and friends who have gone into the next life.

Answer 11

The Devil's Holiday? What does Haloween have to do with religion? And Who I serve, why do you care? Halloween is People dressing up in costumes and going trick or treating.