An anti-Judeo-Christian ritual?
2007-10-08 09:36:37 · 26 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
This reminds me of Bloom County cartoon which made fun of putting election day so close to Halloween.
2007-10-08 09:49:58 · answer #1 · answered by John V 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
First of all, it's not a legal holiday. It's a tradition passed on from pagan celebrations.
Second of all, there are many Judeo-Christian groups that do not celebrate it, or they offer alternative "harvest"-type celebrations so that the kids don't feel left out.
Thirdly, the pagan tradition has a Christian connection. The Christian Church Year calendar celebrates All-Saints Day on or around November 1st. All Saints Day is a day to celebrate the saints of the church (if you're Catholic) or all those church members who have died in the previous 12 months. Note the word "celebrate." It's a celebration of their life and their return to the God that created them.
The night before all saints are celebrated, the dark side of death is highlighted. This is paganistic, not Judeo-Christian because Judeo-Christians are supposed to value life, but not fear death because it means presence with God.
2007-10-08 09:48:50 · answer #2 · answered by Mister J 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
because it was brought by the Irish and Scots and it’s only kid's stuff.
If you believe that is the worst manifestation of the occult in America you need to look at the Skull and Bones the Illuminati and the Satanic homo -erotic ritual therein. Only homosexuals i.e. Bush Kerrey etc can happily be promoted up the power structure since only they could participate willingly.
The political class is rotten to the core.
2007-10-08 09:54:32 · answer #3 · answered by John M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Too bad you are a mindless liberal. You could have researched this quite easily. It actually has its basis in a Judeo-Christian holiday, All Souls day. Go do a little research and educate yourself for a change. I promise it really won't take too long to find your answers.
2007-10-08 10:02:24 · answer #4 · answered by Michael H 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
partly so on the 1st - lots of the significant Founding Fathers have been deists or Unitarians. you may argue that the specific manufacturers of deism and Unitarianism they observed have been in line with Judeo-Christian values, and that i could no longer extremely disagree with you, yet Jefferson, Adams and Franklin, in specific, have been neither Jews nor Christians. For that remember, even secular humanism the "faith" of maximum cutting-area atheists and agnostics, is in line with Judeo-Christian values, only with lots greater liberal attitudes approximately intercourse, and no honestly non secular ceremonies or ideals. I agree that no faith could desire to govern the country.
2016-10-21 11:57:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The founding on Judea-Christian claim is a myth. There was a religious revivalism movement in the late 1800s. Somehow, that event is used to make the claim we were founded on ghosts and guys with funny hats.
2007-10-08 10:18:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
America is a western civilization founded on Greco-Roman and Anglo Saxon values. They were all pagans.
2007-10-08 09:51:44 · answer #7 · answered by TxSup 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Though it is based on an even older Holiday, Halloween has been a part of the Christian calendar as "All Saints Day" for many hundred years. It is in no way anti-Christian or anything else.
2007-10-08 09:41:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Chi Guy,
Come on now, you should know better than this. This country has a rich and deep Christian heritage. Halloween is in fact a result of this.
The festival of All Saints, also sometimes known as All Saints' Day, All Hallows or Hallowmas ("hallows" meaning "saints," and "mas" meaning "Mass"), is a feast celebrated November 1 in honour of all the saints, known and unknown. Halloween is the day preceding it, and is so named because it is "The Eve of All Hallows". All Saints is also a Christian formula invoking all the faithful saints and martyrs, known or unknown.
2007-10-08 09:50:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Christianity took over many pagan holidays as it spread throughout Europe and replaced many older holidays. Christmas replaced the winter solstice holiday, and Easter replaced Spring fertilization rituals. Those dates have no significance to christianity, as none of its claims could be accurately verified and dated. So it assigned its own holidays to days that others had celebrated their own.
2007-10-08 09:42:38 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋