Yet go to something called Harvest Day at their church instead? Doesn't that sound ironically pagan?
2007-10-25 09:10:12 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm talking about a Conservative non-Denominational Church as well.
2007-10-25 09:11:40 · update #1
Ha-ha-ha.
I'm just about as fundie as they come (donate 10 pts to the fundie cause please)
...But even I don't go that far.
Wierdos.
2007-10-25 09:13:31 · answer #1 · answered by CanadianFundamentalist 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I'd have to agree with some of the folks here, if they want to celebrate harvest fests, let them and while they do that, I'll celebrate Samhain. Y'know it's funny that Christians call Halloween, pagan, when it was the Christians which created Halloween to begin with. Samhain, on the other hand is definitely Pagan. If they think that well since Halloween is based on Samhain, they should use the same logic when celebrating Christmas since that to is based on a couple of Pagan Winter celebrations such has Saturnalia or Yule, then they shouldn't celebrate that either. But that is another topic for another time blessed be y'all and have a Happy Samhain!
2007-10-25 12:28:24 · answer #2 · answered by Ed 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Obviously you have never read the Bible and do not know the signifigance of the "Harvest" of God's people. It has nothing to do with Paganism. Did you ever hear of "You reap what you sow?" That's from the Bible, also.
Read the Parable of the Wheat and the Tares.
Read in Revelation about the End of the Age Harvest.
Sometimes, things are not what they "sound" like. God bless
2007-10-25 09:19:39 · answer #3 · answered by byHisgrace 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just out of curiousity, I wonder how many people of any religion, ever cared enough about what God thinks, to consider asking Him for wisdom on this subject or any other matter that seems to stir up so much debate between the 'sides'. He obviously knows the origin of this 'pagan holiday'. Many paths or choices in life seem right for the man to take, yet many of them lead to destruction. Look at Adam's path to the tree. Seemed innocent enough to him?! I don't choose to acknowledege halloween with anything but prayer for the lives of the potential victims of satanic rituals that take place on that night. I raised my children to know the truth about all the 'traditional holidays'. I agree it is rediculous for 'so-called' christians to offer an alternative celebration on this obviously 'dark spiritual' day. Honestly, how many people cheerfully throw parties for the sake of the death of someone they love? Yet the images of death are flaunted on halloween as though they are something to laugh about. On a lighter note, if there is one, I wouldn't be surprised if 'dentists' were behind the whole 'candy thing', just waiting for the little kiddies to come in with their cavities!
2007-10-25 09:58:37 · answer #4 · answered by God's Fountain Pen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's how Christianity started
by combining Pagan Holidays
with a new invented Christian Holiday
Take Christmas for instance
2007-10-25 09:26:49 · answer #5 · answered by mw 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont' celebrate Halloween or Harvest Day. I don't even celebrate Easter or Christmas. I do participate in giving gifts at Christmas with my family but thats it. I do take part in Thanksgiving, because that personally is how we should live everyday of the year out. Giving Thanks to our Creator the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave us everything and whom without we would be absolutely nothing...
I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify Him with thanksgiving. Ps. 69:30
2007-10-25 09:25:29 · answer #6 · answered by *Spotless* 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, let's see here: All Souls' is October 30, All SAINTS' is October 31, and La Dia de Los Muertos is November 1 & 2. Why call Samhain by any other name? So that the public non-pagans can celebrate it, and NOT feel guilty about it!
2007-10-25 09:16:01 · answer #7 · answered by cherose228 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Last time I went to Salem for Halloween, I was appalled at all the fundies out picketing the pagans.
Imagine if people actively tried to ruin a Christian celebration? Actually, I mean - not the fictional "attack" on Christmas the persecution-complex folks go on and on about. Imagine going to/from your church and find people shouting insults and calling you evil; that's what those fundies were doing.
2007-10-25 09:17:25 · answer #8 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
my bio mother is like this...i feel let her do what she feels. i have my own life. she has hers. i respect her ways...by being raised by her and going to the Harvest Days i saw this as a "Holy-ween" but i did celebrate it with some other family before and i don't see any evil about it. maybe some of the custumes loool. but she used to tell me that holloween was created back when the witches took the children and bribed them with candy. sound likes a familar children's book.
2007-10-25 09:18:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why do you care? What difference does it make to you what somebody else does? How does that affect your life? We choose not be involved in it, that is our choice. We don't force that on anyone, that is our decision. If someone chooses not to recognize this day above another, what is that to you?
2007-10-25 09:20:39 · answer #10 · answered by BrotherMichael 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i could care less really. as long as they dont tell me i cant celebrate it.
they can call it whatever they want, it still means the same thing.
same as christmas. they call it christmas but it has more pagan meaning then christian.
if i call a moose a mouse, doesnt make the moose really a mouse.
2007-10-25 09:14:51 · answer #11 · answered by Chippy v1.0.0.3b 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋