Right now it's Halloween, which is pagan and evil for promoting demons and the devil. When, in reality, halloween is a christian (specifically catholic) festival. True, they speicfically designed it to coopt the pagan harvest festivals, but "All Hallow's Eve" was purely a product of the church.
Soon, it will be Christmas. When they will complain at great length about how people are losing the "true meaning". When christmas was originally scheduled to hijack pagan winter solstice holidays. In fact, the Bible indicates that Jesus wasn't even born in -winter-, much less a specific day on a calendar system that didn't exist at the time.
Then, a few months later, They'll be up in arms about Easter. And how the easter bunny is a pagan idol. When Easter is another holiday scheduled to steal thunder from pagan holidays, the spring equinox. Don't think Easter has anythign to do with pagans? Then why is it on the first sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox?
2007-10-30 09:46:40 · 13 answers · asked by juicy_wishun 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If it was the anniversary of the resurrection, shouldn't it be scheduled around somethign else? Don't beleive me? Look it up for yourself.
It bugs me that some people can't get their own history straight. And then get all pissy when the topics come up each year.
What causes this socio-religio-psychological phenomenon?
2007-10-30 09:49:09 · update #1
I am a Christian. I love the Lord my God with all of my heart and I love his Son Jesus the Christ. Last Thursday I was at my Bible Study class at the Church. In the room next to us was a Halloween Party for the children of the Church. On Dec 1 I will be the cook at our Church's annual Breakfast with Santa Pancake Breakfast. At Easter I will watch with great joy as the children frolic around the Church grounds on an Easter Egg hunt with the eggs hidden by the Easter bunny.
I do not know you or anything about you but I do know that there are a great many Christians who are well aware of the differences between the secular celebrations of men and the religious celebrations of our faith.
One note of historical accuracy: Pagans were worshipers of nature, the heavens and the earth. They were not disciples of evil but they did believe in the existence of demons as well as a God or gods.
2007-10-30 10:14:29 · answer #1 · answered by TKDMAN121 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you that there is an over reaction on all sides over the holidays. When local governments forbid a reindeer because it is proselytizing or when some Christians say that people in stores should not say happy holidays because it waters done the true meaning. I say live and let live, if you want a super-religious holiday go for it. If you are a Jew who has a Hanukkah bush good for you.
Second Christmas is not on the winter solstice, the winter solstice is Dec 22, and there was by definition a calender system. Easter is based on the Lunar calender. The Vernal Equinox is March 21 but many a time Eastern is April.
2007-10-30 10:02:19 · answer #2 · answered by mike t 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I do know that catholicism is evil... but they didn't start any of these celebrations... they simply try to consume them and distort them for these PAGAN non religious celebrations have meaning and purposes that the catholics and christians don't want the human race to understand.... they are all celebrations of nature... and the catholics seek to destroy the work of nature... bring on the great pumpkin the beautiful symbol of the harvest... and bring on the ghost and gools for it scares the church for nature knows their meanings and purpose... and when the year end is comes brng on Satan who reminds us that karma rewards the living not the dead... that there is consequences to our actions... and the tree the endurance of the plant life who evolved to remain gree all year round and also serves as a reminder that the greenery will soon return, to not give up hope.... and in the spring let us celebrate the newness and return of all plant life... that is the one that is renewed.. the days of hardship are over for human, animals and all manner of life... for the plant life that goes away in the winter, is comming back to life... and food a plenty will be found... what a celebration....
2007-10-30 10:02:23 · answer #3 · answered by Gyspy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If that's a guy or woman or specific team (consisting of a church or community evangelical corporation) that's harassing you like this, and you're no longer frightening it in any way, then call the police. that's undesirable sufficient that they proselytize, yet considering they shop on doing it and are concentrated on you specifically, even at paintings, then they're breaking the regulation. to boot to calling the police, get a lawyer who works in discrimination and harassment situations. i assume you additionally can collect up each tract and pamphlet till you have a sufficient to fill a trashcan, then unload that for the time of front of their church's door with a observe asserting "You dropped this." yet rather i could in basic terms shop the tracts as data and circulate with the felony direction. some human beings listed under are suggesting to "ignore approximately" it and enable them to stroll on you. yet i think of far too many Pagans have been letting Christians try this for too lengthy.
2016-10-14 09:19:07 · answer #4 · answered by holtzer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well we live in America, and America is going to celebrate it whether or not, but here is the deal, If we know our savior was born and went to the cross for us, we should celebrate that fact everyday, as far as these holidays go, No I refuse to celebrate something where people think it is a good idea to dress up as the devil, and and far as Christmas it brings family together, and it was picked to reflect on Christ, so if it helps people good, I have also heard that Jesus was born in the spring, but if we have Christ in our lives then we know,
Christmas is a day that we dedicate to celebrating as a country and we should be happy there is one at all, Thanksgiving is for our country and to give thanks to God, and people around us, Easter we will remember Christs resurrection, not many people even know where they started, and they started thier own tradition here, let them have what they started here, and quit looking to judge.
2007-10-30 09:58:58 · answer #5 · answered by Lynn C 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is self hating guilt.
Most of the people pining about the 'true meaning of Christmas' do it while decorating the Christmas tree that they then decorate and lay presents around.
It nature worship at its most primal and deep down inside most Christians know it. It just makes them feel better about their hypocrisy to wax eloquent about how their valued 'holy days' are being hijacked.
2007-10-30 09:50:28 · answer #6 · answered by ɹɐǝɟsuɐs Blessed Cheese Maker 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
oh yes
halloween is a catholc festivity, which is why my catholic college is celebrating.
the holidays of which you speak were designed to help the pagans convert to christianity, many of them just stuck.
2007-10-30 09:59:04 · answer #7 · answered by Adam of the wired 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Read a book on pagan history.
2007-10-30 09:50:11 · answer #8 · answered by S K 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
some christians can not accept the fct that their holidays were recycled from pagan holidays.
2007-10-30 10:05:54 · answer #9 · answered by sweetgurl13069 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What Silkin said.
2007-10-30 09:56:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋