2007-10-11 08:22:10 · 36 answers · asked by twista 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Give each child who comes to your door a piece of candy and a gospel tract. Halloween is a great opportunity to witness. Consider that you have a chance to use the devil's device against him.
2007-10-11 08:27:55 · answer #1 · answered by Caveman 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
What are the dangers of Halloween. It like Christmas has become a very commercial day that has little or no link to its past celebration.
It would be better to discuss how Christmas in celebrated and how it has become a more pagan holiday. That is the real danger.
2007-10-11 08:36:53 · answer #2 · answered by sad_state_of_affairs 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You need to educate your ignorant self about halloween. Halloween is simply the night before All Saints Day. Just like Christmas Eve is the night before Christmas.
It is a contraction using an Old English word for Holy (Hallows) which is also used for "saint": Hence, Halloween = Hallows Eve = Saints Eve.
Read this Encyclopedia entry for more info:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01315a.htm
2007-10-11 08:26:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
k, i see that every1 here is taking your q. a bit literally.
i know what youre trying 2 say; my dad taught me that halloween is Satan's b.day. it makes sense; Christmas being Jesus's b.day, & halloween being satan's b.day. 1 is about Christ & 1 is about pure evilness. halloween is a purely pagan ritual-not 2 say that christmas dont have some of that 2, i mean, when did SANTA get added 2 the story??
i dont really know how we can convince them 2 stop, esp. since i started celebrating it-i see it as a giant costume party that the whole towns invited 2, that includes getting candy. ino the origin of it tho, cuz i read about it, thats how ino its actually pure evil. i think its a bit much, tho, 2 say that the candys been tampered w/. i mean, what reason does any1 have 4 poisoning kids??? or making them hurt themselves w/ needles, etc. that part dont make sense 2 me. i cant even remember how it has anything 2do w/ the pagan ritual.
(the costumes represent the monsters out & about-i 4get why theyre out there-& the lit up pumpkins represent the lanterns they used 2 keep evil demons away.-the 1z they carried (now i guess being replaced by the candy bags)& the 1z sittin outside the house lighting up the place.
4 me, i notice that even knowing the satanic origin of it, im still having a hard time not doing anything that nite(i already know who i want 2b 4 halloween, but i dont plan on going trick-or-treating) when i went trickortreating 4 the 1st time, i didnt even say the traditional saying; i said "happy halloween". i also know that the origin of the saying is "treat me or ill trick u"-really not a nice thing, which is why i made up my own saying. saying the traditional saying would b lying about myself cuz i aint no prankster. i was just out 2get candy wherever i could get it.
OVERALL, the reason i havent been able 2 refrain from doin anything that nite is because its only 1 day/nite a yr. that u can dress up as whoever u want w/out ppl giving u strange looks. if u dress up as a monster, or whoever you really like, any other time, u draw alot of attention. i prefer 2 use the date as a chance 2 signify who/what im a fan of w/out getting "looks". ive never care about candy anymore, i just wanna run around as some1/thing im a fan of 4 a day.
so, 2 answer your q. a little more clearly; i dont think that even the origin behind the celebration is gunna stop ppl from doin stuff, but if there is, good luck w/ finding it!
2007-10-11 08:52:12 · answer #4 · answered by Tiff 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
What underlies holidays in memory of the “spirits of the dead”?
The 1910 edition of The Encyclopædia Britannica states: “All Souls’ Day . . . the day set apart in the Roman Catholic Church for the commemoration of the faithful departed. The celebration is based on the doctrine that the souls of the faithful which at death have not been cleansed from venial sins, or have not atoned for past transgressions, cannot attain the Beatific Vision, and that they may be helped to do so by prayer and by the sacrifice of the mass. . . . Certain popular beliefs connected with All Souls’ Day are of pagan origin and immemorial antiquity. Thus the dead are believed by the peasantry of many Catholic countries to return to their former homes on All Souls’ night and partake of the food of the living.”—Vol. I, p. 709.
The Encyclopedia Americana says: “Elements of the customs connected with Halloween can be traced to a Druid ceremony in pre-Christian times. The Celts had festivals for two major gods—a sun god and a god of the dead (called Samhain), whose festival was held on November 1, the beginning of the Celtic New Year. The festival of the dead was gradually incorporated into Christian ritual.”—(1977), Vol. 13, p. 725.
The book The Worship of the Dead points to this origin: “The mythologies of all the ancient nations are interwoven with the events of the Deluge . . . The force of this argument is illustrated by the fact of the observance of a great festival of the dead in commemoration of the event, not only by nations more or less in communication with each other, but by others widely separated, both by the ocean and by centuries of time. This festival is, moreover, held by all on or about the very day on which, according to the Mosaic account, the Deluge took place, viz., the seventeenth day of the second month—the month nearly corresponding with our November.” (London, 1904, Colonel J. Garnier, p. 4) Thus these celebrations actually began with an honoring of people whom God had destroyed because of their badness in Noah’s day.—Gen. 6:5-7; 7:11.
Such holidays honoring “spirits of the dead” as if they were alive in another realm are contrary to the Bible’s description of death as a state of complete unconsciousness.—Eccl. 9:5, 10; Ps. 146:4.
Regarding the origin of belief in immortality of the human soul, see pages 101, 102, under the main heading “Death,” and pages 379, 380, under “Soul.”
2007-10-11 08:30:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
I'm actually upset. It my community people pick a designated day that isn't even halloween for the kids to trick or treat and it's all over before it even gets dark.
I think it's sad that people are so paranoid that kids don't get the full fun of Halloween anymore.
2007-10-11 08:29:08 · answer #6 · answered by thegrovesofdoubt 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
innocent and ignorant
have halloween candy to make the learning of all that stuff mitigated
and the survivors always can feel grateful for the sweets
2007-10-11 16:07:45 · answer #7 · answered by genntri 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Provide them with and alternative. As a child I only went trick-or-treating once. Instead my church gave and All Saints Day Party. We all dressed up as anything found in the Bible(which includes all animals) and had pretty much the same type of games you would find at any haloween party. Bobbing for apples, eating a donut tied from a string without using our hands etc.
2007-10-11 08:28:46 · answer #8 · answered by linnea13 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Check the candy and wear reflectors, I hope that is what u are talking about protecting the masses from, other wise u are very ignorant!!!!
2007-10-11 08:45:41 · answer #9 · answered by *me* 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is better to have a neighborhood Halloween party than to take the kids trick-or-treating. Demons put glass in children's candy these days.
Who are you calling innocent and ignorant? The masses already know about the demons and candy.
2007-10-11 08:27:04 · answer #10 · answered by Prof Fruitcake 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
christianity is based on halloween
Halloween Christianized
It was a general practice of the Christianized Roman Empire and the church at Rome to convert the pagans within the empire as quickly and on as large a scale as possible.
Ever since the time of Constantine, who made Catholicism the state religion, the Roman Emperors realized how essential it was to have a unified empire, where as many as possible would have one mind. The civil and religious leaders saw how important it was for the for the sake of unity to allow only one religion within the Roman realm.
It became a state policy to force all non-Christians to accept the orthodox faith. The conquered pagans had a profound influence on the affairs of the church. These pagans brought with them many pagan practices and celebrations. Halloween was merely one of many. The pagans were fervent in clinging to their past ceremonies and observed them openly, yet they were supposed to have been converted to Christianity.
2007-10-11 08:28:13 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋