[pro-life]

halloween is a satanic holiday that is based on pagan traditions. it is also the high holiday of witches around the world. no Christian should be celebrating a holiday that is devoted to satan.

[JennysCool]

Bet you're a real blast at parties.

[Stone Mountain]

Where did you get the idea that Halloween is devoted to Satan?

[jdege]

I overheard a phone conversation by a coworker in the next cube.

He's a tatooed, pierced, far-left, vegetarian eco-freak.

And he said he's voting for Norm Coleman.

[Momaw Nadon]

[Texaggie79]

We took it and made it our own.

Funniest thing I ever saw was a Catholic Church in my home town, when I was a kid that had a haunted house with witches and ghosts, and it was the best haunted house in town.

[RightWhale]

halloween is a satanic holiday

It's actually a loose collection of holidays from various sources that runs about 4 days this time of year. The Hallow in Hallowe'en refers to the Saints, and it's properly spelled Hallowe'en as Hallowed Evening. All Saints' Day is another. Nothing more than a celebration of departed spirits.

[tubebender]

alloween is a satanic holiday that is based on pagan traditions. it is also the high holiday of witches around the world. no Christian should be celebrating a holiday that is devoted to satan.

All Right...My kind of people.

[Catspaw]

The Church Lady

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Back when Clinton was president, I steered clear from talking much about the supernatural. The truth is, however, I used to study it some.

Actually, pagan holidays are often lunar-triggered events, particularly in October. The complete fullness of the moon is required, if I'm not mistaken, for Wiccans. The gravitational pull is slightly less during that time. Our bodies, made largely of liquid, are affected the same way the tides are. However, the time of destruction is when the moon is in its smallest stage. Note that gravitational pull is stronger at that time, causing a heart to be that much more vulnerable, for example.

IMHO, Halloween is not a serious night to anyone who takes his or her pagan religion seriously. Parlor mystics or fakes might think it's a big deal, however.

On the other hand, theoretically, there could be a lot of psychic energy produced by everyone going to haunted houses, telling ghost stories, watching horror movies, etc. Al G. Manning wrote that one could tap into that communal energy pool, kind of like a spiritual or ectoplasmic 'vampire'. If it were spread out on random days, that would be more difficult. But everyone doing all this on the same night, who knows? If Al G. Manning is correct, it would be an ideal night for satanics to harness that energy.

[SamAdams76]

You know, Christmas is a pagan holiday too and was banned by Christianity for many years. So do you not celebrate Christmas as well?

[rwfromkansas]

So is Easter and even Christmas, IIRC. (That is why the Puritans refused to celebrate Christmas).

Many of our holidays have Pagan roots because the Catholic Church subsitituted its holidays ot cover the other holidays up.

I don't see halloween as necessarily evil.

That said, I celebrate Reformation Day, as October 31 is also the anniversary of when Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses and thus, October 31 has become known as Reformation Day as well. But, nobody knows about that....lol

[Darth Hillary]

And I suppose you don't approve of Lightning On Demand.

[HelgaHawk]

Can you say ...bor-r-r-r-ring.

[d101302]

Are they telling ghost stories over at DU? ;-)

[Hila]

Spooky? How about "Come out from among them,", the pagan practices - or you'll be toast. That should be mused upon and not your desire to have demonic experiences.