Most scholars agree that Halloween originated around 2,000 years ago, when Celtic people in Europe celebrated the end of the harvest and the start of a new year with the festival Samhain. I know Christians want to downplay this connection, but Samhain was held around November 1st. The Catholic church sought to Christianize the festival by making it all saints day, putting a spin on the belief that the veil between the living and dead was lifted that day. Halloween came from All Hollows Eve, the day before all saints day. Unfortunately, Halloween now carries the the theme of death, spirits and sorcery.
@T-Rex0711 Says:
Reclaim Christian holy days. For All Saints Day, I've been opening up Foxe's book of Martyr's. For advent, I've been spending time with O Come Emmanuel. For Epiphany, I have friends over to sing carols and read poetry to close out the Christmas season. All of our major American holidays have a Christian precedent behind them that is worth acknowledging.
@wearegamers1894 Says:
I m a Christian, I know this evil that's why I don't celebrate this
@cardboardcapeii4286 Says:
There’s nothing wrong with Halloween. It’s a Christian holiday.
@ellim8203 Says:
Halloween is the highest holiday for Satanists! Former Satanists report that on this day, they go around cursing people, especially Christians. They say these curses take effect because people have engaged in and celebrated Halloween. The Bible says we should flee from sin and evil and not celebrate it. The entire holiday has zero godly values and is a very poor example for children.
It glorifies and promotes extortion, fear, death, ugly things, shock, horror, Satanism and occult practices, disgust, nightmares, and much more.
There’s nothing good about this holiday. Stay away from it!
Or instead, celebrate Reformation Day.
@gweilo5565 Says:
All holidays have become Pagan. Christmas is greed, Valentine’s Day is lust, Easter is not what it’s intended to be, Thanksgiving is gluttony, Halloween celebrates the devil.
@renierramirez9534 Says:
Does Halloween glorify God?
1 Corinthians 10.31
Intentions are important
@ОксанаПетровна-с9ш Says:
Halloween is Evil
@burkean Says:
I prefer the animated format.
@BoundyMan Says:
When I was in Kindergarten my parents didn't allow me to go Trick or Treating because of it's association with witches and ghosts. My mom was a pastor's daughter and gets scared of anything that looks like a monster because it looks real to her, and she was afraid I would be led astray from the Lord and would have nightmares. But I couldn't understand what was wrong with the holiday because at that time a witch to me was an imaginary woman who flew on a broom, and a ghost was just a person under a white blanket. The next year my parents let me once they realized I didn't have a complete understanding of witches and ghost, and I knew the difference between good and evil, and I didn't get nightmares.
Rather than asking should Christians celebrate Halloween, we should ask the following. Is Trick or Treating evil? Does dressing up in costumes lead children astray? Would passing out candy to kids lead them to turn away from the Lord?
@suoutamaki14 Says:
Doesn't seem like evil has been in retreat. It is stronger than ever today. Yes, ultimately it has been defeated by the cross of Christ. But it's death throes haven't ended and are getting louder and louder until the final moment.
@thetraditionalist Says:
this is a bad video. Satanists literally still consider halloween their most important holiday. It is no mere marketing trick
@EvanG529 Says:
Halloween has successfully turned evil into a commercial product and it has thus lost all its power
@kavikv.d.hexenholtz3474 Says:
Completely contrary to what many would have one believe, Halloween is not a holiday that has close ties to the ancient past, nor does it have some ‘pagan’ antecedent, nor is it a continuation of several ancient pre-Christian customs.
To say Halloween’s connections to ancient Samhain, or anything “ancient” for that matter, are, at best, extremely tenuous, would be grossly overstating the facts. Virtually all of the customs associated with the modern secular celebration of Halloween developed only in the past 500 years and have no connections to ancient pagan religious practices.
In short, Halloween just does not have the “pagan precedent” so many people seem to desperately want it to.
Even the concept of ‘Trick or Treat’ is a relatively new phenomenon, originating from right here in the USA from about the 1920’s or so, and represents a mix of cultures, capitalism, and accommodation.
All three holidays, Halloween, All Saint’s Day, and Samhain share a common date and perhaps a “feeling”, but that’s really about it. Indeed, so much of Halloween “feels” Pagan that attempts to connect those things to ancient Samhain simply “feels right”.
When one participates in Halloween, one is not participating in ‘evil’ or ‘death’ per se; rather one of the points of the modern holiday is to mock these things. I think that’s a major point many people seem to completely miss or not quite understand.
On another philosophical/psychological level, it allows people to explore their “darker side/psyche”, if you will. A time to explore a side of themselves they would not normally expose or perhaps even consider. It’s a part of being human. I somehow don’t think God would object to humans being human.
It is a time to play on a few of the basic/core fears of man – fear of what lurks in the dark, and fear of death – the aspects of these fears that people just don’t like to think about, are now exposed for all to ‘see’ and ‘experience’. A sort of annual self-check to make sure that part of our humanity is still there, so to speak. In the end, most people realize it for what it is.
As one commenter puts it – “This smear campaign against Halloween, in which it has been scapegoated among Christians as the ultimate manifestation of secularism and satanism in contemporary culture, only goes back to fairly recent modern times when certain Christian groups resorted to any fanciful tale to counter the emerging counterculture of the 60's and 70's that they perceived as corrupting youth. Christian leaders since then have clutched us in a guilt trip ever since about a holiday which, prior to this extreme reaction, was indeed harmless for the most part like any other holiday and had no connection with satanic rituals. It was a cultural festival which, though mischievous at times, really posed no threat to society until we were forced to believe that it did.”
Samhain/Halloween is to some people a very spiritual and magickal time of the year; for some it’s a time of fun and candy, perhaps a way to celebrate Fall in general. Still for others, perhaps a time to contemplate their own mortality, since the modern holiday mocks death. With the beginning of the dark half of the year, it is also a time to play on a few of the basic/core fears of humankind – fear of what lurks in the dark, and fear of death. Some perhaps are not quite sure what to make of it and prefer to steer clear of it; in the end however, we are forced to conclude that, like it or not, Halloween is only ‘evil’ for those who choose to make it so.
When we celebrate Halloween, we are definitely participating in a tradition with deep historical roots. But those roots are firmly situated in the medieval Christian past, not an ancient pagan one.
@IsekaiApostle Says:
Christians have free will .
@scillyautomatic Says:
There's nothing wrong with celebrating Halloween in the US tradition.
*Except for the price of candy! $250 worth of candy is not uncommon in our neighborhood.
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