Isn't it Hypocritical to celebrate Christmas but not Halloween?

Question

I never did understand the aversion to Halloween. Is it because the Christian calender never found a holiday to off set it? Christians celebrate Christmas, made on the day of the Winter Solstice pagan holiday, and Easter for Ishtar the Babylonian goddess of fertility. The Christians, of course, changed the name of the holiday but the dates and origins are still pagan. So if you celebrate all these other holidays that's origins come from pagan holidays, why not let your children enjoy a day of candy and social interaction? Isn't it a bit hypocritical to pick and choose pagan holidays to celebrate, stating that some are holy while others unholy?

Answer 1

I love the Lord and I take my kids out on Halloween. How can a day of fun be a sin? You wonder if people think that dressing their kids up in a costume is going to make them psycho? Hee Hee. Costumes don't do that and neither does celebrating Christmas or watching Harry Potter. People are goofy and want to blame the way kids are today on anything else but their own lack of parenting skills. Stop living one way in front of people and another behind closed doors and your children wouldn't be nutty.Start smacking some tails and they wouldn't have to worry about which "pagan" holidays they could celebrate cause their kids would be intelligent enough to know real from fake.

Answer 2

Who told you Christians have an aversion to Halloween? Some Christians may, but that's a personal thing. We don't celebrate pagan holidays that just had their names changed. The time of year may be the same, but the holidays are entirely about Christ. If you're going to criticize a group of people, you might at least know what you're talking about so you don't come off sounding so ignorant.

Answer 3

Well, Samhain is a tougher one than Yule. Yule is the celebration of light in the darkest time of the year; Samhain is the pagan holiday that celebrates the aspect of the life cycle that is death.

In our culture today we are very uncomfortable with death. We don't know what to say about it to our children, or even how to console a friend who has lost someone. Why, the other day I asked a very practical question about the legal and administrative things that would happen if my father, who lives two states away, would happen to die without me knowing, and half the posters jumped all over me for even thinking about such a thing.

Samhain is also about embracing and understanding our fears, so as to bring them to light. Christian culture has a hard time with that. In their black and white world, what is bad is always bad and what is feared is always to be feared. Only their deity has the power to change it, not they themselves. So the celebrations of Hallow's Eve don't really make sense to them.

Yule on the other hand is happy and nice and positive, and it's easier for them to get behind, because a lot of them think they had the holiday first.

Answer 4

Yes, such ones can be considered hypocrites. Many people today celebrate certain holidays and not others. New Year's, Christmas, Halloween and other holidays such as these have origins that no Christians should follow. For those who call themselves Christians, or those who profess to follow the Christ, how can you celebrate Christmas when Jesus was not even born there? Did Jesus ever celebrate people's birthdays? Nope. Although, Jesus did attend a wedding and turned to water into wine, he never celebrated his birth, but rather his death.

Luke 22:19 says to keep doing this in remembrance of me, referring to the Lord's Evening Meal (the bread and wine). Only Jehovah's Witnesses adhere to this principle. They do this once a year, every year. Whenever Nisan 14 falls on the Jewish calendar in 2008, that is when the Memorial will take place. The Lord's Evening Meal, or, the Memorial is celebrated by JW's annually worldwide. No other holidays are celebrated by JW's.

Answer 5

First, your assumption is that Christmas is only the pagan celebration. For my family, Christmas is a season where we prepare for the coming of Christ with scripture and worship and celebrate the birth of Christ over the couple weeks following.

Same with Halloween. It is not an satanic holiday as commercialization has painted it. It is a Christian holiday called All Souls Day where we pray for the dead.

here is a good reference: http://www.franciscanradio.org/ACRepisode.asp?EpisodeNum=135

clusium, you are correct. We dress the kids up the night before as saints and discuss explore the saint's life and the carry it forward through the next day.

Answer 6

Christ's birthday was not celebrated on 12/25 until the fourth century when it was moved to that date for political reasons. Celebrating the pagan and Christian holiday together created more social solidarity for political strength. It has nothing to do with hijacking religious practices.

Answer 7

particularly Easter is greater considerable interior the Christian ritual calendar. Christmas is actual a Pagan competition accompanied by skill of the Roman Catholic Church (merely like Easter from the Anglo-Saxon fertility goddess Eostre, & Hallowe'en which replaced into initially a Gaelic, Anglo-Saxon & Scandinavian party of ineffective ancestors). Pope Julius I declared that Christ’s start could be celebrated on December 25 in 350 advert in an attempt to make Christianity greater proper to pagans. the concern-loose Western thought of Christmas, even which includes national variances, is basically a fusion of Roman, Indo-ecu, Nordic and Celtic Pagan fairs and symbolism. no longer all of those fairs have been strictly non secular. quickly i think atheists have fun the iciness competition without thinking the Christ, very like many different non secular & non-non secular cultures do & have executed. i ask your self, why do Christians have fun those Pagan fairs?

Answer 8

Gee I don't celebrate Christmas or Halloween. I celebrate Winter Solstice and Samhain. Let the Christians find their own holidays!

Answer 9

I have no idea what you're talking about but I celebrate Halloween and Christmas. My mother is Christian and she doesn't see anything wrong with celebrating Halloween. Christians who see it as being "unholy" are just acting silly and foolish. I don't think there are too many of them though.

Answer 10

Just a minor correction to March's post:

Hallowe'en is not All Souls'Day. Hallowe'en is short for 'All Hallows'Eve,' which falls on October 31'st. The day after that is All Saints(or All Hallows'), which is November 1'st. November 2'nd is All Souls'Day.