halloween?

[jesusfreak54]

What does everyone think on Halloween?

 

[ZiSunka]

Why should Christians celebrate a pagan holiday??

 

[fragmentsofdreams]

It's become secular. It's the same reason why everyone celebrates Valentine's Day even though it has Christian connections.

 

[xtxArchxAngelxtx]

Why should Christians celebrate a pagan holiday??

It was created by the candy company based on ideas by pagan beleifes....

It's not a pagan holiday, but peoples conscience caused them to think that there is actually something "evil" about it.

Once again, nothing is evil unless we make it evil ourselves.

 

[xtxArchxAngelxtx]

It's become secular. It's the same reason why everyone celebrates Valentine's Day even though it has Christian connections.

Psh... yeah


I personally think Valentines day is worse than Halloween!!!!

 

[Teh Wiccan]

Brief history lesson... Valentines Day was made in honor of Saint Valentine, who secretly married soldiers against the Ruler's will. The ruler thought married soldiers were weaker, Valentine didn't think so. It was still put on the day of Lupercalia, a suspisiously similar pagan holiday.

Halloween was originally a Pagan fesival on Samhain. It was when the dead were honored and symbolized the beginning of the colder part of the year. The Christian church couldn't stop people from celebrating it, so they just "Christianized" it.
Source: neopagan.com

 

[jayswife29]

I probably shouldn't say this being a christian, but halloween has always been my favorite "holiday". Don't know why, but it's just always been a fun time for me, and I HATE valentines day.

 

[urbanfaerie]

i like halloween. i'm 23 an go trick or treating every yr. haha.

ppl at my church even dress up. i've seen moses, mary, etc.... plus theres cute costumes.

nothing evil but the day...cept ya might get cavities

 

[xtxArchxAngelxtx]

i like halloween. i'm 23 an go trick or treating every yr. haha.

ppl at my church even dress up. i've seen moses, mary, etc.... plus theres cute costumes.

nothing evil but the day...cept ya might get cavities

A perfect way of sanctifying something.

 

[Dawn Marie]

Psh... yeah


I personally think Valentines day is worse than Halloween!!!!

Why do you say that? Valentine's Day is cool.

And I love Halloween. Always have, always will. I would still go trick-or-treating if I could get away with it...

 

[xtxArchxAngelxtx]

Valentines day... the day where people fall in love.... aww how sweet.... Bullcrap

It's turned into nothing but peopel getting their emotions out whack, hormons super engergized.

It encourages girls to look nicer than normal to try and please the opposite sex and what

It encourages Males to empty their wallet on an elaborate dinner, despite any financial worries.

Yeah that is a generalization, and Valentines day is cool for married couples, but that is b/c Valentines day now a days is more eros oriented then agapae or philleo, even starge (i think I spelled that right) but never the less, it gives people high hopes to have a special day to feel wanted.

If you ask me, V day is the most dperessing day of the year. If you don't have a secret admirer, g/f or even best friend who is of the opposite sex, you will feel lonely.

For the kids who are picked on, or are just different than people in school then it is a very dpressing day. They see couples happy with each (being enticed after thier own lusts more than likely) and it makes them sad.

Yeah, that was me until I found out that I need to avoid that stuff anyways.

Halloween is a night to have fun and chill with your friends. Nothing serious, nothing up tight, just laid back and peaceful.

 

[Teh Wiccan]

heh... I spend pretty much every Valentines day alone... I get used to that..

(XangelX! I just noticed your sig, I listen to that song/band all the time!!)
Back to the topic at hand...
I got as close as Feb 3rd not being alone, but never all the way to the 14th.

 

[feral]

Halloween is my favorite holiday. Always has been. It is what you make of it...if you take it as spooky, or as a joke, or as a kid's holiday that's how it'll turn out. Who wants to pass up free candy??????

 

[ByGrace]

I personally do not celebrate halloween because of the evil connotations associated with it. I see all the monsters and witches and ghosts and that as counter to what I believe and practice. I do not allow my child to celebrate it either. Halloween still carries a lot of the influence of the original samhain influence with it. My church has a harvest celebration that night where thanks can be given to God for the bounties that He has given.

 

[xtxArchxAngelxtx]

Heres a poem for ya, by grace.

It's about our mind and how we view things, tell me what you think about it.

Gothic Moon

Cinematic light glistening through roaming clouds
Silence pierces through the winds breeze without a sound
The sliver of silver sheds twilight this night
Fog creeps in…
Shaman and demon lurk the grounds
Forsaken from reality
Silver light flowing into the eye manipulating the mind
Giving birth to new reality trigger by past fictions
Magic hour for evil to stir
Stir your tainted mind.
Statues of truth lay in the field
Speaking the wise against evil
Steel sword reflecting back silver light
Piercing the fogMagic nothing but myth
Holiness solid and strongLiving through the night
The mind so easily overcome by so-called evil
Gothic moon: creation of God
No evil shall triumph.

 

[desi]

Halloween is my favorite secular holiday, better, and cheaper, even than Christmas!

 

[tcampen]

I personally do not celebrate halloween because of the evil connotations associated with it. I see all the monsters and witches and ghosts and that as counter to what I believe and practice. I do not allow my child to celebrate it either. Halloween still carries a lot of the influence of the original samhain influence with it. My church has a harvest celebration that night where thanks can be given to God for the bounties that He has given.

Havest Festival...........hmmmmmmmmmm.........sound very...Pagan. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Such "evil connotations" are invented concepts. Regardless of where this holiday's earliest influences may have come, today it is a purely secular event, that is as fun, innocent, and social as the 4th of July. It is one my favorites, too. Always has been, and I'm no more immoral or evil than any Christian.

But we can all celebrate, or not, whatever we want. Thank goodness for a free society.

 

[xtxArchxAngelxtx]

halloween is just as evil as any other day....


Just like how a quija board is just as evil as an monopoly.

 

[Polycarp1]

While I won't differ that the 10/31 Samhain festival of pre-Christian Celtic paganism has more than a little to do with the secular Hallowe'en celebration, the name of the holiday itself is emphatically Christian, and anyone condemning it as pagan for what's accreted on it probably also believes that we should not celebrate our Lord's Resurrection because of some bulloney about rabbits and colored eggs.

Hallow-e'en derives from All Hallows' Eve -- the eve, or evening before, All Saints Day, from the earliest times days of the church set aside as the day when Christians remember and give thanks for all those saints who have gone on to heaven before them. (The day has varied according to local tradition, but the Western church has celebrated 11/1 as the date to commemorate the communion of saints in the Church Triumphant for at least 1000 years.)

The "ghosts and goblins" theme of Hallowe'en derives partly from distorted memories of the pagan Samhain celebration and partly from a widespread folk belief that on that eve those who died unsaved were given a night's respite from their torment, and would come back to what became literally their old haunts.

 

[Havoc]

It's not a pagan holiday, but peoples conscience caused them to think that there is actually something "evil" about it.

Yes it is a Pagan Holy Day... and no it's not "Evil".