Wouldn't that be a little....., I mean a lot, Hypocritic of them? They always go on and on about Christians celebrating Christmas and Easter.Now what about them celebrating halloween?
2007-10-31 01:46:49 · 53 answers · asked by don_steele54 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Please Brothers and Sister forgive me, but I just had to ask this.
2007-10-31 01:47:57 · update #1
Nora Christmas and Easter never where and are not pagan Holidays to Christians, But I can't wait to see what you will be asking at these times.
2007-10-31 01:53:15 · update #2
WHOA!!! You guys really get defensive. Halloween is a holiday that was created by the catholic church.That is the facts.
2007-10-31 02:50:32 · update #3
Why are some of you getting so mad?
You can still celebrate halloween, its okay with me.
2007-10-31 03:10:30 · update #4
Samhain and Halloween are two different holidays.Pagans and Atheist are trying to make halloween their day.I think that you all should not celebrate Halloween since it doesn't line up with what you should be doing.
2007-10-31 03:22:25 · update #5
SHOULD I PUT THIS QUESTION UP FOR A VOTE TO SEE WHO IS RIGHT AND WHO IS WRONG HERE>WOULD YOU ALL BE WILLING TO DO THAT?BECAUSE I KNOW YOUR ALL WRONG IN THE WAY THAT YOU BELIEVE!
1 Rule: If you don't answer you can't vote.
2007-10-31 03:25:39 · update #6
I SEE MANY PEOPLE HERE WHO HAVE BEEN DECEIVED INTO BELIEVING THE WRONG THING.MOST OF YOU ARE LEANING THE WRONG WAY HERE.IT MAKES ME SAD WHEN I SEE SO MANY OF YOU IN AGREEMENT.WHEN WILL YOU ALL START EXCEPTING THE TRUTH?
2007-10-31 04:00:15 · update #7
Thank You Sister Nina, You would get my Best Answer vote here, but I have promised to put this question up for a vote.As a Christian I will keep my word.I am glad to see that many have given you a thumbs up, sorry for the thumbs down.Please be kind as I know that you are, and don't give anyone a thumbs down.Show these people love as we ought to.Maybe you will get best answer in the Vote, you will have mine.God Bless!
2007-10-31 04:06:20 · update #8
Regardless of how many answer this I will put this to a vote, but I would like at least a hundred answers before I do.
WHAT ARE ALL OF YOU GOING TO DO WHEN YOU FIND OUT HOW WRONG YOU ARE?
2007-10-31 05:50:41 · update #9
NIGHTWIN... your perception makes me believe that my Lord has been talking to you.I hope you will receive what my prayer is for you, and your family.
2007-10-31 06:22:19 · update #10
JOHNKAMF: "And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him ..."
MYCAS:But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy."
THE GRAND INQUISITER:He is truth, come to Him and "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
2007-10-31 06:35:52 · update #11
CC, "I wouldn't mind having my baby baptized since it doesn't matter to me and wont hurt him." You don't sound like your completley persuaded to be an Atheist.God is still speaking to you heart.Please don't go any further down the road without God.He loves you and your family so very much. "..The LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man.." You don't want the Lord to stop calling you. Please at least go and talk with Him, He will answer you, and like you said already, what could it hurt?
2007-10-31 07:34:23 · update #12
BIBLE BELIEVER: Brother, I know that you will, pray for these dear souls that their eyes will be opened to the truth and that they start believing in the Lord as they ought.
2007-10-31 07:39:59 · update #13
WEIRDOTT: "I can do whatever I feel like." Does this sound selfish and unkind to you? "Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned." Rest asured that you are loved by Him.
2007-10-31 07:52:12 · update #14
ANGELBAB...Looks as if you have been well informed, by man.When you find yourself in trouble remember these words "The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry." Your so very special to God. With your inteligence what a wonderful minister you would make in His kingdom.
2007-10-31 08:02:43 · update #15
AMY: "unlearned and inaccurate." This is the same thing the Pharisees thoght of the Apostles, "Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus." See being a Christian doesn't mean you have know everything to be excepted.People just need to know that you have "been with Jesus".
2007-10-31 08:12:43 · update #16
ITS TIME TO VOTE, BUT BEFORE I PUSH THE BUTTON.ONE LAST WORD.MY QUESTION WAS A "TRICK" MY "TREAT" TO EACH OF YOU IS TO LET YOU ALL KNOW THAT JESUS LOVES YOU ALL VERY VERY MUCH.PLEASE DON'T BE MAD AT ME FOR "trick or treat"ing you.MY INTENTIONS HERE WHERE GIVEN OUT OF LOVE.I DIDN'T GROW UP CHRISTIAN SO I UNDERSTAND BOTH SIDES.I CAN TELL YOU THIS WITHOUT RESERVE, JESUS LOVES YOU PEOPLE AND SO DOES MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN THE LORD.HAPPY HALLOWEEN, BE SAFE, AND KIND TO ONE ANOTHER.
2007-10-31 09:12:41 · update #17
Halloween started in Ireland, with the Pagans. Nice try though.
2007-10-31 01:49:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 20⤊ 3⤋
Actually, Halloween started as a Pagan holiday. So really, that would make you a hypocrite, wouldn't it? Not only that, but you would be an unlearned hypocrite.
Besides, Halloween is not celebrated (for the most part) with any spiritual meaning anymore. It is about dressing up and getting candy.
Oh, and I have never gone on and on about Christian's celebrating Christmas and Easter. What are you talking about?
Why do you people try to attack people with different views than yours all the time. Especially when you usually say something unlearned and inaccurate.
2007-10-31 02:11:01 · answer #2 · answered by I think I'm Dumb ~Amy~ 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I celebrate the secular holiday of Halloween (dress up, hand out candy to children) just as I celebrate the secular side of Christmas (be thankful for family, exchange gifts, etc). I don't celebrate the Christian aspects, just as Christians don't celebrate the pagan meanings of older holidays.
(and I am apparently driven as crazy as you when someone here insists that Christmas and Easter are really pagan. No, they're not. Half of their evidence is wrong, and even if one holiday is influenced by an older holiday, that doesn't mean they're the same thing. That's like saying computers and typewriters are the same thing. If a holiday is celebrated with a Christian meaning, it's Christian.)
2007-10-31 05:55:50 · answer #3 · answered by Nightwind 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ooo Dear you are funny. All Hollows Eve is a pagan day. It is a time that we believe the veil between this world and the next is thin and our loved one that have passed and chosen not to be reincarnated can cross over.
I love the way that Christians just keep stealing from us. Can't you come up with your own thing? I mean a little imagination isn't that hard for you is it. Are you that brain washed?
Anyone who has ever read anything I have said knows that I am all about understanding one another and trying to show a little respect but this guy has just gotten under my skin and I am sure that was the point.
2007-10-31 03:13:58 · answer #4 · answered by Yup it's me! 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I just do not read anywhere in the word where we as christians are encouraged to celebrate these things. The Lord said that we are to remember Him by the breaking of Bread and the drinking of the wine at His precious table.
I do not believe that the Lord really has anything to do with this celebration. It may have some religious roots when the Roman Empire was moving throughout the world and many " mixtures' came out of that domination. But does Christ want the pure chaste Bride to be involved in this? I do not believe the early believers did this.. its not recorded in the word. We just need to hold to the word not just in some things but in all things I believe my brothers and sisters.
May we all be purged of any leaven and be such a spotless bride for our Lord Jesus Christ
Your sister forever
sandy
2007-10-31 03:01:48 · answer #5 · answered by Broken Alabaster Flask 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Urm what?
All Saints day may be a religious holiday but we're not celebrating that. Just because it also used to fall on the last day of October it doesn't mean it suddently takes priority over all other festivals that are celebrated on the same day. That's like saying that Christmas somehow has priority over Hannukah, Yule, Winter Solstice and Lent/Easter has priority over Passover.
Stop spreading misinformation, this is an Q&A site, not a soapbox for your personal beliefs.
2007-10-31 03:22:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am an atheist
I posted a Q a while back asking if any atheists were going to/did have their child/children baptized for traditional reasons? I also asked if they got/were going to get married in church.
myself, I don't care what something started out as, if I enjoy it, for whatever reason, I'll do it, and if it would make an old grandma happy I wouldn't mind having my baby baptized since it doesn't matter to me and wont hurt him.
We did get married in a chapel in Vegas and it felt right and it was fun and romantic. Where I'm from (Sweden) a lot of ppl go to church for traditional reasons, like midnight mass at Christmas for ex, and ppl do have their babies baptized for the same reasons.
We were "forced" to become Christians a long time ago and now we celebrate a mix of Christian and pagan holidays mainly because it has become a part of our culture. I don't see how taking part in anything, that is a part of the culture where you were born, could be wrong in any way? Why would I not celebrate something just to "show them they're wrong"?
Anyway...happy Halloween :)
2007-10-31 02:04:55 · answer #7 · answered by CC 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I do know that and anyone that knows, I said KNOWS history and the BIBLE knows that. November 1 731AD, was declared All Saints Day, and was then shorten to All Hallow's Day (Hallow meaning Holy). October the 31 was call All Hallow's Eve(Halloween-Short form). But please don't waste your time trying to convince the pagans and satanic believers of the world that it means anything but what they want in to. However keep in mind that most of the reasons that the Christians are losing their hold on the Holidays and anything else that was once Holy and Right, is because the Christians of the world have set back and let satan and his bunch take over and I am afraid that we will all have to stand before a Mighty God one day and answer for this. Bless You
2007-10-31 03:49:43 · answer #8 · answered by PREACHER'S WIFE 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Halloween is a condensed word taken from All Hallows Eve. The Church created this holy day to incorporate the Celtic Pagan holiday of Samhain celebrated in Ireland into the church to 'give' the people a sense of belonging within the church. It also allowed them to look the other way since they 'Christianized' the celebration by giving it a new name and spin. It was a common practice.
2007-10-31 01:56:26 · answer #9 · answered by urallnutballs 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I don't know the history of Halloween and I don't care. What I DO KNOW is that God judges the intents of the heart.
Heb 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
As far as pagans and atheists being hypocritical, they breathe the air that God created and refuse to acknowledge His existance. They are hypocritical by the fact that they exist. The ORIGINAL LIE was "ye shall be as God". ALL lies came from this thought pattern.
In His Service,
John the Baptist
2007-10-31 02:49:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Halloween wasn't originally a Christian holiday. Halloween (Samhain) is older than Christianity and is a pagan sabbat.
Yet another of our holidays taken over by Christians
Edited: I know Samhain and halloween are two different things. Samhain is/was the original holiday. Halloween was what the christians used to try and take over our holday. Therefore Pagans DO NOT celebrate halloween as you originally asked we celebrate Samhain, however to you because the things used to celebrate are the same: pumpkins, trick or treating etc you will consider us to be celebrating halloween which is not true
2007-10-31 01:54:39 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋