do you celebrate easter or christmas? if so, why those and not halloween? they are all pagan holy days and not originally christian.
if one is evil, surely the other two are as well? can you explain the difference?
2007-08-20 04:22:52 · 46 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
justin - you may want to do a little research about the origins of christmas and easter
2007-08-20 04:28:32 · update #1
td - the only way you could possibly believe that is if you have some sort of std that eats away at your brain. wow.
2007-08-20 05:13:14 · update #2
you are right about their origins, but like others here have said, i celebrate less of the holiday and more just reminding myself that Jesus died on this day or was born on this day...
also i think halloween is totally harmless...and your right, you cant say one has pagan roots and not the other....i'm sure i'll get soem thumbs down for saying that and being christian.
2007-08-20 04:33:40 · answer #1 · answered by lilmamaOH 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
the t dont celebrate holloween because they said its' evil and i agreed with you if halloween is evil so are the others holidays such as easter and xmas; iam a christian and a panamenian i celebrate halloween with my family and back home we celebrate the day of the dead; which is in the month of november the second and all spanish contries all over the word celebrates the day of the dead also and that day we go to the cementary and put flowers on our departed love ones and back home we go dancing we just have a feasf. and for halloween the word comes from ALL HALLOw's Eve. a christian celebration that takes place the night before all saints day.yet the holiday has ancient pagan root's,and today it's also a high holy day for wicca' the beautiful nature- oriented and ancient religion dominated by white witches. However just as withmany of our holidays that have they feet firmly planted in pagan tradition, the church took over -. tradicionally , the ancient celtic end- of -summer harvest festival called samhain(usually pronounced sow-en), also took place on november the 1er.It was believe that on that day the world of the gods would be visited to humans .Since this was a time when the souls of the dead werw believed to visit homes and leave messages in dreams many fortune -tellers felt that it was the best time to predict future events. druids recognized this festival as being in terrelated with the harvest. . the full moon and astrological changed . then after conquering britain the romans added these celtic traditions to their own harvest festival as a result some tradition were chang e while others survived such as the brlief in ghost and witches. the tradition for leaving food out for the dead, came about because ancient people feit that ghoes might be hungry after a year of being deprived but if there were giving food the spirit will leave every one alone. thus. trick or treat was born. and the dressing up was to scare away evil spirits.
2007-08-20 16:41:54 · answer #2 · answered by Rosalinda 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that most educated Christians realize that the dates of Easter (based on moon phases and not on a set date each year) and Christmas are not the actual dates that the Christian events occurred.
As a fundamentalist christian, I've heard all of the reasons for not celebrating "the Devil's Holiday" as some of them call it. And I've gone to churches where they say we should avoid any celebration of that holiday because of it's Pagan roots.
Our Christian women's group last year did some research and found out that the origins of the American version of trick or treating were based on a movement by the Boy Scouts. They wanted a safe alternative for the kids to going out and soaping the windows and other mischief. SO they adopted a holiday into a distinctly American tradition of going door to door in costume and getting candy.
Ultimately, Christians, I feel we need to look at the intentions of the heart, just like Jesus did when he looked at people who were doing things others didn't approve of.
I know that Samhain falls on the same evening as Halloween, but I know that there are some differences in the traditions. So, I will respectfully decline participating in Samhain as it is definitely not Christian.
2007-08-20 06:02:09 · answer #3 · answered by Searcher 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That's the exact reason they don't celebrate Christmas in Scotland, because it was originally a pagan festival. They celebrate New Year's instead.
Jesus was born some time in spring. It would have been too cold for sheep to be out on the hills in Palestine around mid winter. He was probably born around 6 or 7 BC,
Easter was also originally a pagan festival to do with fertility (rabbits, eggs etc.)
Both Easter and Christmas were co-opted by the church and turned into Christian festivals. This is undisputed and is common knowledge.
Samhain or Halloween was also turned into a Christian festival, i.e. "All Souls Eve".
2007-08-20 04:32:57 · answer #4 · answered by 2kool4u 5 · 6⤊ 1⤋
I dont celebrate anything thats pagan. All holidays have some sort of distortion to em'.
The whole reason for this: Constantine (the first "christian" roman emporer)
No one realizes that after Jesus died everyone except for the apostles and faithful followers went crazy. There was so much persecution. So to keep the people as one Constantine intertwined the two calling it "Christian". Namely, the festival "the day of the sun" which was changed to "the day of the Son" Jesus. His birthday isn't even close to December its like in fall sometime. But he never asked us to celebrate his birth but his death he said "continue to do this in remembrance of me" at the last supper before he died.
(Background on Christmas and the Bible)
Jesus never even celebrated his B-day nor was it advised the 2 times it was even brought out in the Bible was referring to bad experiences of the Pharaoh and the King. The Cake celebrating is SOOOO paganistic too with the candles and gifts.
Dont even get me started on Halloween.
Well I'm a Jehovah's Witness so that explains why i know all this and dont celebrate certain things....
Baptism is recorded in the Bible and Jesus gave the command to "go therefore...baptizing them in name of the father the son and the holy spirit"
But yet that scripture does not back up Trinity which is also a pagan belief.
2007-08-20 09:03:15 · answer #5 · answered by jrichelled 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Saying that Christmas and Easter were originally pagan holidays is not 100% correct in my opinion. Yes the dates are the dates of pagan holidays. When Christianity began to spread and convert pagan people and the birth of Christ and his resurrection was to be celebrated dates needed to be picked as no one knows the exact date. The pagan holidays were co-opted because they were already celebrated and it was not such a drastic change.
The difference between Christmas, Easter, and halloween is the meaning. While Christmas and Easter have been corrupted, to be about santa and the easter bunny, the truth is that these two holidays celebrate the birth and resurrection of Christ. Halloween has nothing to do with Christ. As someone here said it is actually celebrating samhain. A pagan holiday totally unrelated to Christianity. While the dates of these holidays may have originally been pagan they are know recognized as Christian by most of the world.
2007-08-20 04:38:51 · answer #6 · answered by Bible warrior 5 · 4⤊ 3⤋
There is some debate about the origins, but that really isn't so important to me.
My focus is worshiping Jesus on Easter and Christmas. I also worship Him on Halloween (and every day of the year). For my household, we have decided to avoid any participation in Halloween, for two reasons:
1 - it is still largely a pagan holy day
2 - it is just too contrived to force a Christian spin on it, in my opinion, so I have nothing to do with it.
I understand Easter and Christmas are likely past pagan holy days that Christianity 'took over' - they are in effect functional days to remember special days at this point in history, so that's what I do - remember Jesus birth and resurrection.
It is still an ongoing conversation that we have in my household.
Everyday is intended to be Godly in my home. Society can label the day what it likes, but '...as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.'
2007-08-20 04:41:46 · answer #7 · answered by super Bobo 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I don't do Halloween--did as a child. Don't know that there is anything wrong with it--although most churches,communities have a place for kids to go instead of the door knocking.
Christmas & Easter are taken from the pagan religions. Did not celebrate it as a christian thing. We celebrated the part of christmas that concerned giving. The church that we attend --Easter is celebrated every Sunday--instead of one day a year.
2007-08-20 04:41:36 · answer #8 · answered by RK 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
sometimes we use what is called common sense what is evil about a bunny rabbit or a evil Santa true none of them have anything to do with Christ but the world has it customs,most Christians don't celebrate Halloween we changed ours to holy nite and open up the church for good clean God-loving fun and give out candy and things to little children and sometimes big ones too,we celebrate Christ during the harvest season and every other season
2007-08-20 04:42:50 · answer #9 · answered by mr.pattersonfromkc 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Justin kid really puts his foot in his mouth here... I swear...
I agree with you 100%.
As a pagan- more specifically, Wiccan, It used to anger me beyond words when people would actually approach me and start lecturing me about what I should and should not believe in. It baffled me that they turned a blind eye to fact- SOLID FACT- facts that the original christians were pagans (eh-dur) and that nearly every holiday in the Christian calendar originated from paganism (here's your proof, if you care to research- Christmas=Yule, Easter= Oestara, Halloween= Samhain, and the tooth fairy certainly didn't invent herself...)
Now, I have my husband (also Pagan) to remind me that getting all upset because of someone else's lack of intelligence will only shoot my blood pressure to the roof.
What can you do... ?
2007-08-20 04:33:23 · answer #10 · answered by ~*Live, Love and Blessed Be*~ 3 · 7⤊ 0⤋