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.
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.
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.
And ask your average person on the street the point of Halloween and I'm SURE you'll not get that as an answer.
Halloween parties, handing out candy and treats, all the *decorations* set up in people's yards to look like graveyards or haunted houses, and the generally festive attitude towards it certainly does make it a celebration of death and TOTALLY obscures any original meaning to the holiday that any church might try to claim.