Posted on 10/27/2024 6:56:52 AM PDT by Duke C.
When you think Halloween, it’s hard not to picture candy corn (gross, but iconic), kids in overpriced costumes, and jack-o’-lanterns grinning like they just got their student loans forgiven. But this spooky celebration, now pretty much an American pastime, wasn’t born in the aisles of Spirit Halloween stores. Nope, it started as a Celtic tradition before America slapped its commercial magic all over it and exported it worldwide like a Marvel movie.
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This is why I say people celebrating Halloween don’t really know what they’re doing or why they’re doing it.
November 1st is All saints day.
That makes October 31 All hallows evening.
Take it from there.
I don’t know why they thought they could.
It seems like the celebration would have died out quickly.
Once they didn’t hear anything from the “other side” you think they would have raised the BS flag.
Nobody talks about all saints day, or about all hallows evening.
Those names are mere whispers from the past and have nothing to do with what we see happening on October 31st.
Those who “communicate with the dead” hear a lot from the other side.
But it’s not the dead person talking back to them. It’s a demon pretending to be the dead person.
Death is part of life. We are all on the Grim Reaper’s list. To spend your whole life avoiding inevitable reality is folly.
It is also Reformation Day. Martin Luther started the Protestant Reformation on October 31, 1517; at about 6:30 in the evening. It is one of the very few major historical event that can be timed so precisely
Nobody has to avoid death. It’s been defeated.
Death was defeated by Jesus Christ on the cross, when he died for our sins and was raised in the flesh.
Jesus Christ is the Son of the Living God. Jesus Christ became flesh and walked among men.
Then why do we hear nothing about about Martin Luther or the Reformation on Halloween?
If you want to see weird, try going to Salem, Mass on Halloween night. It is a mixture of halloween and mardi-gras.
That makes no sense. Whatsoever.
“It’s the holiday that you celebrate by having fun, and you don’t have to do any demonstrative spending.”
Americans spend more on Halloween than any other holiday except Christmas.
It’s second and gaining.
Are you laughing (in a nasty way) about the fact that the person died?
Or are you laughing in a good way, celebrating the person’s life?
The difference is subtle, but huge.
Sometimes I wonder if the witches of the Salem witch trials were possibly real witches.
The kind who sacrifice children.
I’ve spoken to people who have participated in satanic rituals involving human sacrifice.
It’s a horrible thing, a crime against humanity and against God, and it’s the real meaning of Halloween.
Don’t forget darkness and evil as well.
So do I with a passion.
That’s correct.
Thus, no true Bible believing Christian ✝️ can partake in this unholy abomination of a holiday.
Halloween has become another excuse to drink to excess and for young women to dress as a Slutty_______________(insert your favorite person, place or thing here) and for young me to drink to excess and act slightly more stupid than they do in daily life.
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