I dont understand this. We have been doing Halloween or All Hallow's Eve for a very long time. I guess because I am pagan I dont understand everyones objection to it. I love this holiday and celebrate it in my own way.
2006-10-31 08:36:24 · 13 answers · asked by bbear20 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Halloween
people are afraid of the truth. Some think its evil which it is not. It is Samhaim. which is the festival to commerate those who have left his we celebrate this day in there honor.
I am pagan wiccan. I have to say out of all the religions there are I like this day the best. Tonight me and my friends are going down the beach and take the petals off the roses I have and putting them in the water in honor, of my aunts and my dad, as well as her mother and her grandmother who passed away
How can a festival that honors our elders be evil.. Guess. and her i thought we where all knowledgeable that we have the web and don't do proproganda anymore.
2006-10-31 08:42:24 · answer #1 · answered by dee luna 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Many people, particularly fundamentalist Christians, believe that celebrating a pagan holiday such as Halloween is a sin. The Ten Commandments say that we should have no other gods before God, and that we should not worship pagan idols. As those are the rules of that particular religion, that is the reason for the abandonment of the holiday.
Some think it's silly, some don't. People are free to practice their religion as they'd like in the USA.
2006-10-31 08:40:42 · answer #2 · answered by jfellrath 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They're calling it a pagan holiday for the same reason they think Christmas is "too commercial": Halloween is another holiday that was co-opted by the early Church in an attempt to ease the conversion process (see? Our religion lets you keep celebrating your old festivals!), so despite Halloween being the Christianized version of the pagan Samhain festival, there are still a lot of pagan themes evident.
Now, the *real* fun happens when you try to explain to these morons that Halloween *is* the Christian holiday, and how it was turned from a festival honouring everybody who had died in the past year (Samhain) to a festival honouring all the saints and martyrs who had died for their faith (hence "All Hallow's E'en"). They later added "All Souls' Day" to honour everybody else, probably due to popular pressure, but that isn't as celebrated here because all of the day-of-the-dead superstitions got tacked on to Halloween.
2006-10-31 08:43:42 · answer #3 · answered by Katie S 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm Pagan and I don't understand it either.
Alot of people tend to feel that if it is not of Christian origin then it must be evil, no ifs, ands or buts. That hasn't stopped people from celebrating it before so why now? Although I do know a handful of people who refuse to even acknowledge the word because it has non-Christian origins. To each their own. You'll never be able to make everyone happy so just celebrate it how you will and don't pay them any attention.
2006-10-31 09:47:20 · answer #4 · answered by Cinnamon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think many of those people are strict cathlics cuz my mom is one of them. I think the main reason is that this holiday used to celebrate the day before All Saint's Day. When little children dressed as saints but later on think satan took over the holiday with all this witches, gohusts, and vampires. Oh my!!!!
2006-10-31 08:45:22 · answer #5 · answered by meme_09 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People have also been saying they're not going to celebrate Halloween for along time. So?? Did you just hear about this?
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2006-10-31 08:42:21 · answer #6 · answered by twowords 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
right wingers .cant make em happy.
its not celebrated as a religious holiday except in rare cases
its, in the USA, basically a fun non religious Holiday everyone can celebrate together..
and even the religious as you should know was the good folks afraid the bad could come back from the dead and claim them hits day so they dressed up as one of them to hide in plain sight be missed and not taken.
leave it to the religious extremists of any faith to be the bad apples...ugh.
2006-10-31 08:49:29 · answer #7 · answered by macdoodle 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because they are stupid. the whole halloween thing started when people thinking spirits would haunt them so they wore scary costumes to scare them away. it might have been part of a religion but not pagan, as it was to scare bad spirits and demons away, not angels and jesus and god and stuff.
2006-10-31 08:39:45 · answer #8 · answered by Tristan T 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
because, if you are a christian then you should not be participating in it. now a days people like to sugar coat things haloween is a demonic day and should not be celebrated! if you really new what haloween meant then you too would not be participating in the festivities
2006-10-31 08:43:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
reason that is interesting. Duh. The context of the Christian named holidays is Christian. As a pagan, i visit assure you that i'm not celebrating the start or lack of existence of Christ. The TRADITIONS are pagan sure. yet they are interesting, so who cares?
2016-12-05 09:59:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋