Why do people view Halloween as Sitanic when in acuality it began with Pagens?

Answer 1

Because it deals with the dead and evil spirits. People always tend to view evil as having to do with the devil/Satan. Then include with that belief the symbols of the black cat, witches, bats and spiders, all symbols of evil or bad things, and the stories of the dead roaming the earth, etc., you have a bunch of people thinking that Halloween is bad.
Nevermind the fact that it was started as a celebration of the end of the harvest and the beginning of winter, nor that the Halloween that we observe was actually started by the "Church" to honor saints and to cleanse the spirits of the dead so they may go into Heaven.

Answer 2

Actually it goes back beyond the Roman latin use of Pagans for the peoples north of Italy. It is a large mixture of fall festivals, but the clearest one is the evening of honor and meal for those who died since during the last year. These were dumb dinners where a place was laid for those who could only attend in spirit and gifts of honor were laid at those places. The children were given the gifts at the end of the Dinner.

Now, on the other end of the question. Satan hadn't even been invented by the Christians when the tradition began--there were no Christians. Also, Satan is a twisting of the Hebrew word Shaitan--evil--and was never personified by the hebrews.

Answer 3

You mean Satanic? That was a made up lie. Samhain was/is a Pagan holiday and Halloween has roots all over the world. It's actually a mish mash of several traditions.

I agree with the Hollywood theory as well. Hollywood has misrepresented pagans, witches and the pentacle for ages.

Answer 4

Anything that competes with religion is labeled "Satanic. The number "13" was always considered to be a lucky number by the Egyptians, We started with 13 colonies, etc, etc But when other beliefs began to compete with those of the Catholic Church hundreds of years ago they were ruled as Satanic. Halloween, ie:: ghosts, hob-goblins etc, etc became satanic. Religion is a business. By the way, Pagan means "country people" but pagans are ruled as bad by the Catholic business.

Answer 5

I don't know anyone that views Halloween as SATANIC. Even though it began with the PAGANS. Maybe because a popular Halloween costume is a devil?

Answer 6

Because most Christians view pagan and Satanic as the same thing. It started mostly with the Catholic church declaring most things that are not "Christian" as "of Satan" - including pagan beliefs and traditions. They tried to create new holidays that would more align with Biblical and traditional Catholicism that's why a lot of "religious" holidays are on pagan holidays.

Answer 7

Ignorance. Christians are generally unable or unwilling to differentiate the two. For the majority, anything that is non-religious is automatically Satanic. It doesn't matter to them that Pagans don't even believe in Satan.

Answer 8

There are people out there who think Pagans are satanic, they don't know anything about it.

But I blame it on Hollywood movies. After all that is how our culture learns about others... we grow up sitting in front of the boob tube.

Answer 9

Because people fear what they don't understand. People view the star symbol ( I think it's called a pentagram) as evil, when it actually is not, It also has Pagan roots.

Answer 10

many ppl unfortunately think that paganism is the same as satanism---they are the uninformed close-minded types who refuse to think for themselves and learn the difference.