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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Amen 🙏🏻!
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No, it started centuries before Samhain did.
Samhain was a harvest festival that occurred on different dates... it was rarely if ever associated with October 31. We only know about it because some Christian writer mentioned it in another context.
All Hollows Eve before All Saints Day was a thing elsewhere in Europe long before the Irish ever gave it a thought. Obviously Samhain wasn’t celebrated in non Celtic Europe even though All Hollows Eve and All Saints Day was.
Only after Wicca got rolling in the 1980s did Samhain get associated with All Hollows Eve.
When I was growing up, at a time when California was still a red state, Halloween was strictly a kid’s holiday. When we outgrew trick-or-treating, we would do things to scare trick-or-treaters such as setting up contraptions that would make it look as though ghosts were flying around our house.
Today, only Christmas is a bigger commercial holiday.
The reason it has the connotation is because the day is a time to pray for Saints and Martyrs not already allocated special days. Saints are dead. Hence the skeletons, etc.
It isn’t a celebration of death.
It started in the early church before the Irish ever gave it a thought.
The earliest record of Samhain is nowhere near as old as All Saints Day and All Hollows Eve.
They have to get the Christmas stuff out by the end of October.
Because you don’t attend a Lutheran Church. We have been celebrating it this weekend. There just aren’t that many Lutherans.
Physical death is unavoidable. At some point your body will cease to function. Halloween is a remainder that that inevitable day is coming and that you should live your life to the fullest. As for the afterlife, if it does exist you will not be judged by how hard you prayed, but by what you did in life and how you treated the people around you.
Most likely they had consumed spoiled grain. Moldy grain can make you nuts.
Nope. In fact, the world would be better off without that horrible evil excuse of a holiday.
But they don’t have to. Americans like to spend money on stuff, it’s what we do. But there’s a big difference between going crazy at Spirit Halloween and feeling if you don’t spend enough on this person’s present they’ll think you suck.
All the more reason to abolish it.
The devil doesn’t want us to know there’s a difference.
But the difference is massive.
The secret of witchcraft is to cause people do things, especially in service to the devil, without knowing they’re doing it. Like celebrating death, dishonoring God.
But when light is shined in the darkness, the darkness is gone.
Which it only has if you want it to. So that’s on you.
The devil doesn’t want us to know there’s a difference.
But the difference is massive.
The secret of witchcraft is to cause people do things, especially in service to the devil, without knowing they’re doing it. Like celebrating death, dishonoring God.
But when light is shined in the darkness, the darkness is gone.
You must have missed the sexy nurses and pirates.
Not at all. Costumes can be made entirely with what you already have in the house.
The sad part is YOU don’t really know why WE celebrate Halloween, but you continue to spew ignorance.
But they aren’t. I’ve got spiders and bats and pumpkins and scarecrows. And witches are alive. So NO it is NOT a celebration of death.
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