what's wrong with pegans?

Question

A friend of mine (BTW, Jewish) said she doesn't celebrate Holloween because it a Pegan holiday. I wonder what have any pegans done to her?

Answer 1

I dont celeberate Michael King Day (his real name) either but its just because its against God .

Answer 2

Pagans haven't done anything to her. The christian church has given false info to its followers and anyone else who will listen without question. Halloween is a day to honor deceased ancestors. The scary masks are to frighten any evil spirits that try to come through on this night, just like gargoyles on buildings, when the veil between the worlds is the thinnest. You might want to encourage any of your friends who feel the same, to give up christmas trees and easter eggs as well.The trees were decorated by pagans to celebrate the Winter Solstice. The 12 days of christmas are a christian corruption of the agricultural festival that showed the days getting shorter, which confirmed the birth of the Sun God, which meant summer would come again bringing the opportunity to raise crops and have food for another year. The easter eggs were a Pagan ritual also. They colored the eggs to celebrate Spring, using the eggs as symbols of fertility. So easter, or oestara, is a fertility ritual, older than christianity. If christians would investigate their religion as well as they think they've investigated mine, they'd have second thoughts about embracing the one with the reputation of being the bloodiest...but they have conveniently forgotten the crusades of the Medievil times.

Answer 3

Probably nothing. However, there is a long tradition in the Jewish faith where it is prohibited to perform the rites of non-Jewish faiths, even in the smallest degree. The classic example is the story of when Moses came down from the mountain with the law and found that the Jews worshipping a golden calf. God was angry and almost destroyed the Jewish people.

To most of us, Halloween is a harmless fun time whose Pagan roots have all but disappeared. I'm Jewish and have no problem celebrating it. In fact, some of my best childhood memories are in celebrating Chistmas with some of my non-Jewish relatives, and I still do to some extent. I've even participated in some real Pagan rituals (we've got lots of Wiccans here in Massachusetts) and quite honestly it was a lot of fun.

But, there are all different kinds and levels of Jewishness, and one of the differences how each group interprets God's Law to the Jews. If it is customary for her type of Judaism to be very strict, and that's how she was brought up, then her response is very understandable. It has nothing to do with Pagans as a people, it has everything to do with preserving her own purity in the eyes of God in the way she was taught God expects of her. My brand of Judaism is (obviously) much less strict.

Answer 4

Actually Christmas is on an old pagan holiday also.
It was easier for the Church to get people to convert by combining Christian and Pagan holidays.
Christ was actually born around the time of the annual census, which was in the late spring/early summer...so his true birthday could not have been in December.

Answer 5

ya, its pagans, but think of this...

The days of the week are pagan gods and goddesses. The months of the year are too.

So if she owns a calendar, she is exposing herself to pagan learning. She should grow up and take it like a self ritcheous person.
If celebrating a holiday that has pagan roots is offensive to her, she celarly isn't comfortable with her own faith.

Raven C: that is very in depth and pointed, i couldn't have said it better myself. Did you ever notice that very few christians will ever explain why they give you thumbs downs for things like that? I post things like that in many Q's concerning pagan roots and i always get thumbs down and no one will ever tell me why.

Answer 6

if shes jewish, then shes got some grounds to dismiss the holiday; its not a jewish holiday and has no direct spiritual significance for her. christians however have taken the holiday into the church from very early on in the middle ages as "all saints day" and it has a very direct spiritual significance for them though many of them choose to dismiss it because of their fear of satanic things. the pagans didnt have to do anything to her for her to dismiss the holiday, maybe she just doesnt see the point!

Answer 7

I've never heard of a Pegan, so I can't tell you.

Maybe she meant Piegans. They seem like pleasant enough Native American folks.

Answer 8

Spell check can be your best friend if you learn how to use it.

Does she celebrate the other holidays that originated in Paganism? If she does then she's a hypocrite.

Answer 9

No idea. But Pagans either don't know or don't care that Jesus died for their sins. Halloween isn't a pagan holiday. Sanheim was. Halloween is a corruption of 'the eve of All Hallows, or all saints, Day.

Some people are just intolerant.

Answer 10

Pegans are Vegans without the letter `V` on their keyboards.

Answer 11

All holidays are on pagan holly days, they were hijacked by the early church. Jesus was born in June or July not on the winter solstice.
http://users.aristotle.net/~bhuie/birthday.htm
http://www.neopagan.net/Halloween-Origins.html