Halloween?! You Decide!
October 31, 2008 by Darlene McDaniel
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THIS IS A REPRINT FROM LAST HALLOWEEN! Enjoy your night!
I have no understanding about why we celebrate Halloween in this country. I have to believe that people don’t know what they are celebrating. So, I thought I would share a little of the history of Halloween. We say Happy Halloween”. What is that? Happy Halloween? Not! I don’t celebrate this holiday and my children have never been trick or treating. Any way.. rather than getting on my soapbox.. Here is some information for you to consider as you celebrate this “holiday.”
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Halloween has never been a Christian holiday and it has no place in the life of a born-again believer in Jesus Christ. In fact, it is an abomination in God and we should take our stand firmly against it. We consider ourselves, America a Christian nation. As we look at this history we find that its roots go deep into heathenism, paganism, Satanisn, and the occult; and its modern day expression is no better.
Halloween (It’s History and Origin)
Three hundred years before Jesus was born a civilization of people called the Celtic lived throughout the British Isles, Scandinavia and Western Europe. They were a common group, much like many segments of society of priests and pagans called the Druids.
The Druids were Satanists who worshiped and served the demonic god of death – Samhain (pronounced Saman). These satanic priests literally controlled people’s lives through the mechanism of fear, and much death, disease and destruction came upon the Celtics as a result of the Druids and their practices.
Each year on October 31, the Druids celebrated the eve of the Celtic New Year in honor of their pagan god, Samhain. The “Festival of Samhain,” more accurately called “The Festival of Death,” was officially known, and is still recognized today by all Satanists, occultists and devil worshippers and the eve of the New Year for witchcraft.
The late Anton Lavey, author of “The Satanic Bible” and the once high priest of the Church of Satan, said there are three important days of Satanists:
1. Their birthday
2. April 30
3. The most important day – HALLOWEEN
Lavey says it is on this night that satanic, occult and witchcraft powers are at their highest potency level, and any witch or occultist who has been having difficulty with a spell or curse can usually achieve success on October 31, because Satan and his powers are at their best that night.
October 31, Halloween, is the eve of the New Year for witchcraft. The World Book Encyclopedia says it is the beginning of all that is “cold, dark and dead!” When you send your little children out to go trick-or-treating you’re actually telling them to celebrate all that is cold, dark, and dead!
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Whether you choose to celebrate this “holiday” or not, I encourage all of you to be safe. What out for the children who are out and about! I don’t celebrate this holiday, and my children have never been out trick or treating. That is what we decision made many years ago for my family. Enjoy your evening tonight. Be safe! Tomorrow is November 1st! Yippee!
Darlene – this post really tickled me. My guy is taking a World History class right now and he’d just told me all the stuff he’d been reading about Celtics and Druids. The actual history is quite different than what you portray here.
One problem I have with Christianity (I’m Christian and was born and raised Baptist, by the way) is that it often distorts the history of other religions and demeans it’s participants in an effort to elevate itself.
While I do not celebrate Halloween either, I wholeheartedly disagree with your characterization of the Celtics and I’d love to see your source for this post.
Hi Gina,
Here is the source information you requested:
Festival of Death by Tom McKenney
http://www.wordsforlivingmin.org/Publications.htm
Celebration of Devils
http://209.239.56.130/theopenheart/holidays/halloween.htm
Thanks for your comment!
Darlene – aren’t these Christian publications?
To put things into context, if somebody were trying to explain Christianity to a Muslim, would you think that providing them literature that was written by a Muslim writing about Christiantity would be the right thing to do, or would the person get a better characterization of the relgion and its holidays by providing them something that was written by Christians?
Religions are notorious for distorting the truths of other relgions, sort of like politicians distort their opponents’ stance on issues and qualifications for the job. For that reason, I think it’s really dangerous to develop opinions (especially negative inflammatory ones) based on history as written by some other religion that has an agenda.
I was once in a World Religions class where the professor told the entire class that the Prophet Muhammed had “over 9000 wives” and when I questioned her on it, she cited some things that she’d learned at her Christian church over the years, and brought in a history book that said he had “many wives.” I tried to explain to her that, the Islmaic literature (the people who ACTUALLY practice it) says he either had 7, or 9 but never 9000 and that she ought to teach the students about these religions from the perspective of the people who practice it, but of course she wouldn’t hear of it. As a result, she gave an entire class inaccurate information and now that they’ve had a “World Religions” class, they’ll likely go around talking about it as if they are experts, all while spreading inaccurate information. Sad.
Gina,
I appreciate your views, but I have no need to continue this circular conversation. You do not have to like my sources. I don’t have to evaluate information the way that you do. As a Christian like many other religions I have strong opinions and beliefs about what I believe. I don’t agree that the World Religion class example you give is a valid point for my sourcing. Sourcing as a writer is a choice. Feel free to use whatever resources you want for the things you write and allow me the same liberty to do the same for my writing and what I share. We will not agree and that is ok for me. I have no desire to convince you of anything when it comes to my beliefs, standards and choices. You are welcome to share whatever information you would like on this topic. But evaluating my choice of source is a waste time. I get to choose and that is the beauty of writing/blogging.