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What do you think about the celebration of Halloween, an obviously pagan, nearly devilish holiday? My Dad said when he was a kid Halloween was a fun time for kids to dress up and go trick-or-treating and play around, make fun of the things that scare them. Then hollywood made those scary horror movies, the horror movies called 'Halloween', about murder, bloody gore and demon possession, and they ruined the celebration of Halloween. I hate horror movies, I never watched them until i was in my 20s, I watched Carrie, and it made me angry to see my Christian faith mocked. A lot of movies make fun of Christianity. Horror movies often show Christians as bad guys, abusive parents hypocritical leaders those who pervert justice and make a normal human being into an instrument of God's wrath.

When I was a little girl Halloween used to scare the pants off me. When I switched from a strict protestant Christian private school to a public school, they allowed the kids to wear their costumes to school. The 4th and 5th grade boys were distugting ugly gross masks to school. I hated the horror movies that came out of TV, and there were gross decorations. Plus I lived in Florida with no change of season, no beautiful fall leaves in brilliant fiery colors, pumpkins don't grow well in Florida, but they were at the grocery store. I didn't understand the thing about the black cats, I compared it with racism for cats. But I never told anyone till now. i like cats. About witches, well I heard there were good witches, but that is a lie the devil comes up with to hurt people, especially the witches themselves. I once had an interest in magic, I wanted to help people and have adventures.

Anyway, I like dressing up in a beautiful costume. I want to be a princess, angel, fairy, southern belle, and mermaid. I like chocolate. And fruit flavored or cinnamon flavored candy. i like pumpkin pie. I like fall leaves and pumpkins, mums, asters, and cute cats.


So I guess the answer is it depends on how you celebrate Halloween. Avoid evil dark satanic stuff. Trick or treating is not allowed because it is dangerous. I think I'll just stay home and work on my drawings and stories.
 

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What do you think about the celebration of Halloween, an obviously pagan, nearly devilish holiday? My Dad said when he was a kid Halloween was a fun time for kids to dress up and go trick-or-treating and play around, make fun of the things that scare them. Then hollywood made those scary horror movies, the horror movies called 'Halloween', about murder, bloody gore and demon possession, and they ruined the celebration of Halloween. I hate horror movies, I never watched them until i was in my 20s, I watched Carrie, and it made me angry to see my Christian faith mocked. A lot of movies make fun of Christianity. Horror movies often show Christians as bad guys, abusive parents hypocritical leaders those who pervert justice and make a normal human being into an instrument of God's wrath.
When I was a little girl Halloween used to scare the pants off me. When I switched from a strict protestant Christian private school to a public school, they allowed the kids to wear their costumes to school. The 4th and 5th grade boys were distugting ugly gross masks to school. I hated the horror movies that came out of TV, and there were gross decorations. Plus I lived in Florida with no change of season, no beautiful fall leaves in brilliant fiery colors, pumpkins don't grow well in Florida, but they were at the grocery store. I didn't understand the thing about the black cats, I compared it with racism for cats. But I never told anyone till now. i like cats. About witches, well I heard there were good witches, but that is a lie the devil comes up with to hurt people, especially the witches themselves. I once had an interest in magic, I wanted to help people and have adventures.
Anyway, I like dressing up in a beautiful costume. I want to be a princess, angel, fairy, southern belle, and mermaid. I like chocolate. And fruit flavored or cinnamon flavored candy. i like pumpkin pie. I like fall leaves and pumpkins, mums, asters, and cute cats.
So I guess the answer is it depends on how you celebrate Halloween. Avoid evil dark satanic stuff. Trick or treating is not allowed because it is dangerous. I think I'll just stay home and work on my drawings and stories.
Some churches have substituted a Fall Festival for Halloween, games and programs, candy and other goodies.They encourage costumes such as princesses, super heroes etc. Myself I bug out on Halloween and go to a movie.
 
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Some churches have substituted a Fall Festival for Halloween, games and programs, candy and other goodies.They encourage costumes such as princesses, super heroes etc. Myself I bug out on Halloween and go to a movie.
interestingly enough this is pretty much what how my Pagan friends celebrate on the 31st
 
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interestingly enough this is pretty much what how my Pagan friends celebrate on the 31st
With the distinct difference the pagan observations honor Satan, church festivals do not. And they have similar festivals at other times during the year.
 
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With the distinct difference the pagan observations honor Satan, church festivals do not. And they have similar festivals at other times during the year.
Honor Satan? My Pagan friends would just laugh at that and then try to educate you
 
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Honor Satan? My Pagan friends would just laugh at that and then try to educate you
Let me modify that. Honoring Satan or whatever deity they honor.
 
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I find as Christains we should be asking ourserlves does holloween bring any honor and glory to GOD. For me the simple answer is no, quite the opposite I believe. So, I do not have anything to do with it, in any form.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him

We no longer look to be served. We look to serve and give our lives for others. No longer fight for privilege, influence and status. We esteem others better than ourselves and put their interests above our own.

Peace be with all those in the body of Christ
 
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My family always thought Hallowe'en was innocent enough to participate in. However, by the time I was ten years old, I was out of it. Hallowe'en in its most benign form involves dressing in some silly costume to go door-to-door collecting candy from total strangers for no good reason at all. I think the whole thing is ridiculous, but I don't look at it through the lens of evil or sinful.
 
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What do you think about the celebration of Halloween, an obviously pagan, nearly devilish holiday? ...

I think once it was called All Hallows' Evening, and at that day people remembered all holy people, and also went to the graves and lit candles for dead relatives. Nowadays it seems to be something else and I don’t see anything good at it.
 
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Let's remind ourselves what Halloween is all about today: (Usually in non-Covid years)


1. Carving Pumpkins

2. Dressing Up

3. Trick-Or-Treating

4. Eating Candy

5. Going to Parties/Playing Games

6. Hayrides

7. Watching Scary Movies/Shows/ Telling Stories (That mostly aren't real btw.)








I don't see anything on that list that could possibly honoring Satan in the slightest. And I know that a lot of members on here (@JohnDB) will agree with me.
 
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You know, from a Christian standpoint, its probably not a good idea, I mean look at it, it really takes no explanation at all to see that.

However, it's been around for so long, it seems innocent enough. I went to a Christian boarding school in Lost Creek Ky as a kid, fairly srict people, and to my surprise, they had no problem with it.

But still, I like the idea of a substitute, because I just don't think Jesus would approve, and in the end, that's what matters.
 
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But still, I like the idea of a substitute, because I just don't think Jesus would approve, and in the end, that's what matters.






Oh I don't know about that. I think He would approve if He realized that we know that it's not real and just like to have fun. It's the exact same thing with a gun. It's not the gun itself that's a problem it's what you do with it. Also if they had trick-or-treating back when He was a child I doubt that even He would turn down the chance for free candy. ;)
 
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My family always thought Hallowe'en was innocent enough to participate in. However, by the time I was ten years old, I was out of it. Hallowe'en in its most benign form involves dressing in some silly costume to go door-to-door collecting candy from total strangers for no good reason at all. I think the whole thing is ridiculous, but I don't look at it through the lens of evil or sinful.







Btw, sure hope that you're still coming to my virtual Halloween party on here and Halloween countdown starts in a few days with one spooky video per day. :D
 
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Btw, sure hope that you're still coming to my virtual Halloween party on here and Halloween countdown starts in a few days with one spooky video per day. :D

absolutely :D
 
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Im not so sure Halloween is good for a follower of YHWH...

Deuteronomy 14:2, “For you are a set-apart people to יהוה your Strength, and יהוה has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a treasured possession above all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.”

1 Peter 2:9, "But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a set-apart nation, a people for a possession, that you should proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

Jeremiah 10:2-3, "Thus said יהוה, “Do not learn the way of the gentiles, and do not be awed by the signs of the heavens, for the gentiles are awed by them. For the prescribed customs of these peoples are worthless..."

A Dictionary of Non-Christian Religions, page 242, says:
Samhain, Samuin. Ancient Celtic feast, held at the end of October and beginning of November. In Ireland it was celebrated on the shores of lakes. Samhain marked the beginning of winter, as Beltane (q.v.) marked the onset of summer. Samhain meant summer end, and bonfires were lit to strengthen the powers of the waning sun. These are perpetuated in the bonfires of November 5, still popular in Britain. In the Christian calendar, Samhain was merged into All Saints Day on November 1.

The Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology, and Symbols, Part 2, page 1393, says:
SAMHAIN (SAMAIN, SAMAN, SAMHAN) Literally, summers end. Celtic winter solstice festival celebrated about November 1. The entrance to burial caves were left open to allow the spirits to come out for an airing. On oidhche Shamhna omen for the future were extracted from the fairies. The Fomors first oppressed the people of Nemed with their terrible tax on this day, and on it the Mag-Tured battles were fought, thus the day on which winter giants expelled the fertility gods. On the Isle of Man called Sauin, in Wales called Nos Galan-gaeof (Night of the winter calends).Corresponds to Halloween. Compare Beltane. Samhanach. Goblins which come out on Samhain in Scotland correspond to Halloween!

The Standard Encyclopedia of Folklore, Mythology and Legend, pages 968-969, tells us what Samain is:

Samain (pronounced sovan or sowan) The festival of the beginning of winter, celebrated on or about November 1 in Ireland and Gaelic Scotland and of very great antiquity. The word means ‘‘end of summer.’’ One of the oldest Irish sagas states that the barrows where the fairies dwelt were open about Samain, and in Scotland a demon who stole babies at this time was called a samhanach. Another old saga relates that for three days before and three days after November 1 the warriors of Ulster assembled for eating, drinking, and boasting of the men they had killed, producing the tips of their tongues as evidence. According to Keating, in heathen times the druids of Ireland assembled to sacrifce to the gods and burn their victims on Samain eve. All other fres were to be extinguished, to be rekindled only from that fre. This custom still lingers on, without the sacrifces, in parts of Ireland and Scotland. The peat fres are extinguished in the cottages on Halloween and are relighted from the bonfres which burn on the hilltops. In the Highlands families used to circumambulate the felds sunwise, holding fr torches. At Waterfordgroups of country lads, headed by horn-blowers, visited the farmers’ houses and collected pence and provisions for the ensuing celebration. In parts of County Cork the procession was led by a man called the White Mare, wearing a white robe and the semblance of a horse’s head, while in other parts the lads dressed as mummers and professed to be the messengers of the Muck Olla, a boar slain by one of the Geraldines. Until about 1850 the inhabitants of the Isle of Lewis used to assemble on the same night, bringing ale and provisions, repeat a paternoster (though mostly Protestants), and walk down to the sea. One of them waded into the water, poured out a cup of ale, and cried out: ‘‘Shoney, I give this cup of ale to you, hoping that you’ll be so kind as to send us plenty of sea-ware to enrich our ground for the coming year.’’ The group then went to the church, stood silent for a while, and then adjourned to the felds for drinking, dancing, and singing. MacCulloch in 1911 mentioned the license permitted to youths on Samain Eve in the quietest townships of the West Highlands. Vallancey in the 18th century recorded that Irish maidens observed the festival by sowing hemp seed and believed that if they looked back they would see the apparition of their future spouse, or they would hang a smock before the cottage fre, convinced that his apparition would come down the chimney and turn the smock.
 
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The ancient Babylonians had a God called Samas;

The Encyclopedia Judaica, Volume 5, page 1020;
...for example, before going out to battle with the Babylonian king Kastilias, the Assyrian king accuses the latter of betrayal and violation of the treaty between them, and as proof he reads the treaty in a loud voice before the god Samas.
 
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