How is it that Chrismas is a "Non-Demonimation Holiday for All" Yet Halloween is Supposedly Religious?

Question

And people wonder why I can't stand the right-wing and its blatant hypocrisy.

OMG I spelled XMas wrong! Better cut & run now.

Because it is a right-wing argument that we are "too politically correct" and everyone should be happy celebrating Christmas from Labor Day until President's Day and if you don't want people to wish you Merry Christmas all the time, TOUGH!!

Know your own party and own up to what they do and believe in.

Halloween is "just as religious" as Christmas? And I'm out of MY mind? Or is that sarcasm, that its been so watered down to be "just as religious"?

Answer 1

You are out of your mind.

First, since this really matters to me, only religious people celebrate Christmas. The right-wingers are AGAINST the commercialism and hype, not FOR it. What is your point? Halloween is just as religious as Christmas. To your point that I'm out of my mind, it is simply not true. What is the accepted nature of Halloween? Are you aware that a CHRISTIAN holiday, All Soul's Day, a CHRISTIAN holiday, falls right after it. Halloween originated partially from the belief that on that day the dead could return to earth. How on earth is that not religious? Or are you so hopefully ignorant and brainwashed that you believe that all holidays are fueled by consumerism?


If you're not Christian, you can celebrate "consumerism day" or "commercialization day" or "greed day." I don't care. Just keep your non-belief out of my Christmas. No hypocrisy.

For someone who claims to be non-religious, you seem to be launching a pretty violent Jihad and witch-hunt against those who choose to believe.

Answer 2

I am wondering what the big deal is. Celebrate Christmas. Fine. Do as you wish. If you don't want to celebrate that's all right also. Same with Halloween,(altough I never knew it was considered "religious")

Answer 3

Why do you blame "right wingers" for this?

If anything, right-wingers want the public to permit them to celebrate Christmas unhindered. When have we suggested that it's a "nondenominational holiday for all"?

Halloween has Christian roots going back to the 800s.

You have no idea what you're talking about.

Answer 4

once you think of of Halloween, what comprises techniques? for loads of human beings, Halloween has replace into synonymous with candy, costumes, frightening stuff, witches, ghosts and pumpkins. yet do you know the Christian connection to the holiday? the genuine origins of Halloween lie with the classic Celtic tribes(Druids) who lived in eire, Scotland, Wales and Brittany. For the Celts, November a million marked the initiating of a sparkling year and the arriving of wintry climate. The night previously the hot year, they celebrated the pageant of Samhain, Lord of the lifeless. in this pageant, Celts believed the souls of the lifeless such as ghosts, goblins and witches back to mingle with the residing. with the intention to scare away the evil spirits, human beings might placed on mask and lightweight bonfires. whilst the Romans conquered the Celts, they extra their very own touches to the Samhain pageant, which includes making centerpieces out of apples and nuts for Pomona, the Roman goddess of the orchards. The Romans additionally bobbed for apples and drank cidertraditions that would sound prevalent to you. yet the place does the Christian ingredient of the holiday come into play? In 835, Pope Gregory IV moved the occasion for each and all the martyrs (later all saints) from might 13 to November a million. The night previously grew to alter into oftentimes going on as All Hallows Even or holy night. ultimately the call replaced into shortened to the contemporary Halloween. On November 2, the Church celebrates All Souls Day. the point of those feasts is to remember people who've died, whether or no longer they're formally known with the help of the Church as saints or no longer. it relatively is a occasion of the communion of saints, which reminds us that the Church isn't sure with the help of area or time. The Catechism of the Catholic Church says that via the communion of saints a perennial link of charity exists between the committed who've already reached their heavenly homestead, people who're expiating their sins in purgatory and people who're nevertheless pilgrims on earth. between them there is, too, an plentiful replace of all stable issues

Answer 5

If you ask me, being politically correct in public with saying "Happy Holidays" is respecting all people and faiths. I say F@*# this crap, Bill O`Rielly and the media can`t cloud my mind from thinking about all those troops that will not be coming home this season because we were lied into a war.

Answer 6

Yes and they target the American way!!