Does Halloween have anything to do with the devil? Is it a diabolical holiday?
2007-10-30 05:27:31 · 12 answers · asked by gme2011 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Halloween
Actually Halloween is a day to honor the dead. In many European Nations they have festivals and families gather to honor the members who have past onto the afterlife. In the States over time Halloween has become associated more with ghouls and ghosts then its true meaning. that is why around halloween you always see the scary movies come out.
2007-10-30 05:36:15 · answer #1 · answered by Robbo_op_98 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it doesn't but I guess that depends on religion? One time when I went trick or treating, this one house gave out a little booklet about halloween and how it's the devil's holiday. But when I "researched" it a while back, I found out that it has nothing to do with the devil. I'll post the website I saw if I find it so you can see.
EDIT-found it
2007-10-30 05:39:19 · answer #2 · answered by Miss Sunshine 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Holloween is just a kid's holiday. It is still a fun time for kids if they all dress like satan or if they all dress like angels.
Just like little league baseball, kids soccer and youth football if the adults just left it alone and let the kids have fun there would be no problems.
Only adults could look at Holloween and see devil worship or loss of christianity. Only adults could have such a flimsy grasp on their believes in God and themselves to allow a bunch of kids and Snickers bars be a threat.
I trick or treated for 12 years and at 50+ I still make a big deal out of this spooky night (I give away the really BIG candy bars). And not once have I associated the night with God or Satan or hell or heaven. But then again I'm not a go to church on Sunday and beg forgiveness for all I'm going to do next week sort of guy.
It is a fun nightPERIOD
2007-10-30 05:42:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Halloween is a festival celebrated by our ancestors to remember loved ones who have passed onto the other side. it was thought that somehow the veil between this life and the next was thin enough for them to pass through and re-visit us - people would leave gifts of food outside for these visiting loved ones and ancestors. it is a way to respectfully pay homage to them without being morbid.
you can see how the modern day halloween has collected rituals from the past.
I don't believe there is anything diabolical in remembering your loved ones and giving and receiving gifts and having fun.
hth
Happy Halloween!
Emma x
2007-10-30 06:15:12 · answer #4 · answered by emma m 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Halloweeen- or- All Hallows Eve as it is called has nothing to do with the devil.....and to add to that..."the Devil" is a word used to describe evil deitites whom would bring mischief,harm upon good natured puritan colonial folk- God fearing type that lived in the time just before the Inquisition to the Very early 1800s ( with all due respect ) & it is also a reference to a fallen angel-( according to original testament )
whom fell out of grace in heaven...
the Devout Catholic Church -roman-latin versions of the Bible clearly say that there is no "Devil"....and if such were...Then he / she / it is a creation of God.
Halloween is hodgepodge-collection of holidays and of celebrations & traditions of-for-with the deceased gathered from around the world when those whom came to America.
ALL boiled down into what we know today & that includes native American culture....okay class?
Happy Hauntings & Blessed be.....
2007-10-30 06:10:56 · answer #5 · answered by SeanX M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
according to stories i have heard throughout the years most of them old celtic myths that halloween was a time of spirits crossing from our world to the next at 12 midnight that is why the 1st of november in called all souls day so i tink nothing to do with the devil
2007-10-30 05:36:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It comes from Irish Celtic traditions.
Go to this link and read about it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween#History
2007-10-30 05:37:51 · answer #7 · answered by Tommiecat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. And anyone who tells you such is usually a loon.
2007-10-30 05:39:41 · answer #8 · answered by ajgryffindor 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well your actually celebrated the Dead
2007-10-30 05:34:38 · answer #9 · answered by susan d 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if you want it make it one
2007-10-30 05:30:38 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋