Posted on 10/31/2022 9:55:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Like clockwork. Every year. LOL!
It depends on how you “celebrate” the day. Cartoonish ghosts, skeletons, silly masks and ghouls vs explicit bloody, satanic gore and inappropriate revealing costumes makes all the difference.
I think we have plenty of holidays of our own without having to celebrate that one.
The only good part is the cheap candy two days later.
Why did it become a bigger adult holiday the
An kid’s?
It’s a great holiday for a country beset by diabetes and metabolic syndrome.
and they all turn a blind eye to the fags and lesbos... I say piss on em all...
Next!!
My opinion is that Halloween USED to be harmless, innocent fun, until the left rose to power. Does everyone understand that Halloween is now a high, holy holiday for homosexuals?
Witch one? :)
Yup, the is a difference between children dressing up in harmless costumes, like cowboys and firefighters and fairies.
But it has turned into an obsession with over the top macabre and gore emphasizing blood and death, along with sexual licentiousness, and is definitely satanic.
The tradition originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts. In the eighth century, Pope Gregory III designated November 1 as a time to honor all saints. Soon, All Saints Day incorporated some of the traditions of Samhain.
The quesion about all Holidays is do their retain the meaning and values of their origin, or do they become represntative of values that contemporary practice assigns to them.
I don’t think any contemporary person thinks that Halloween events will “ward off ghosts”.
On a related religious question, does anyone think anyone besides God knows who are truly saints from God’s perspective???
We celebrate Reformation !!!
Kudos to Martin Luther!
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God!
I’m not a ‘spoil sport’…..I had small children once…in a kinder, gentler time.
But it seems evident IN OUR FALLEN WORLD the devil has more than had his due
Children are for sale!…..their precious minds and souls and human forms are mutilated at will.
Dear mercy, it’s Horror Halloween every day now!!!
Agreed
Halloween, one of the annual celebrations that has wiggled its way into the status of a holiday, is on its face a tongue-in-cheek acknowledgement to the things that go bump in the middle of the night. At its deepest level, this Celtic remnant of age-old superstition is a tip of the hat to Old Scratch himself. Most thinking people acknowledge that there is indeed evil in this world, but go no further to consider its origins, context and cosmic significance on this chaotic planet we call earth.
Lucifer, one of God’s most elect in the angelic host of God, once aspired to be like The Most High God, and was rewarded for his unholy ambition by being cast from Heaven and assigned to eternal suffering in the Lake of Fire, but only after he had free reign to tempt mankind for a season on earth. And tempt he does, but he craves the worship of mankind made in the image of God Himself. If he was rebuffed by Jesus, what better option than to tempt man to give him the worship he longs to receive?
While there are a few groups called Satanists who worship and make unholy sacrifices to the devil there is widespread acceptance and over $10 billion is spent on this holiday in America alone. The money is significant, but is dwarfed by the $890 billion Americans spent on Christmas in 2021. However, the spiritual damage done to children in particular by the observance of Halloween can be significant.
First, the participation in Halloween by our children encourages a festive spirit that tolerates symbols of evil. Costumes and masks of demons, the devil, and other unsavory subjects including gruesome wounds from edged instruments are all viewed with a light-hearted attitude of make-believe. The devil is reduced to a harmless fellow who can scare you for a moment but do no real harm since he really doesn’t exist.
Second, the terrible truth is that the devil, eternal suffering, demons and hellfire are all too real. Satan is a master deceiver, and his favorite ploy is to encourage the errant belief that he really doesn’t exist. Even a cursory examination of the Word of God reveals that Satan is a real being and he is the sworn enemy not only of God but mankind made in His image.
Third, and perhaps the most vile of all, the inclusion of this holiday as par with Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter elevates it to the same status as the birth of Christ, the suffering and Resurrection of Christ and an American holiday that encourages giving thanks to the Lord for His bounteous provision.
And, when the little ones who look up so trustingly at Mom and Dad finally discover that Santa Claus is not really real, it’s a short hop to believing that since Mom and Dad fibbed about Santa, they probably lied about God and the devil as well. The result: children grow up and piece together their own beliefs about life and the afterlife—if indeed they believe in an afterlife at all.
Halloween is no joke, but the devil delights when we fall into the trap of convention and follow the masses instead of standing against something that the Word of God tells us is evil.
It’s just the night before All Saints Day.
Why can’t the “researchers” ever get this right?
The rest of it is just kid stuff.
BTTT!
...not to mention the once-a-year public dismay of adult “slutty” costume opportunists...
Slutty nurse
Slutty cop
Slutty schoolgirl
Disgusting, all!
Yeah liberals feel the same way.
This, by the way, is wrong. It was a popular idea years ago but there is no evidence to support it.
"All Hallows Eve" means the eve of All Hallows, or All Saints Day. The latter has been an entirely Christian feast day since the 800s, and the date was chosen by Roman Christians, not Irish pagans.
The earliest Irish martyrologies had All Saints Day in April, not in November, and the Irish church only switched to November to bring themselves in line with the day observed in Rome and the rest of Christendom. I doubt the Romans cared about or even knew about Samhain.
If you ask me, there has been a sort of quiet conspiracy between neopagans and the Puritan types--both of whom would be very eager to label the day pagan. It had to be practically stamped out by law in Christian England after the Reformation, and even that didn't work, which is why we still remember the day. But it was a Christian day through and through...at least till the secularists got a hold of it.
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