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To: LukeL

Fixing your first statement.

Modern Halloween.....

It didn’t start out that way. It started as the Eve of All Hallows — The Vigil of All Saints.


10 posted on 09/20/2017 8:14:49 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

Its roots go back to ancient Druid holidays. Look up Samhain.


13 posted on 09/20/2017 8:32:58 PM PDT by LukeL
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To: Salvation

Christianity co-opted the pagan holidays underlying Christmas and Easter. If this woman has her way, Christianity will take over yoga, too.


18 posted on 09/20/2017 9:44:31 PM PDT by AZLiberty (The logical endpoint of "zero-tolerance history" is zero history.)
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