Why are SOME Chritians think Halloween is Pagan or Evil when it's not (read add details PLEASE!)?

Question

there's nothing "pagan" about Halloween, it's All Hallow's Eve or all "Saints Eve" the night before the Christian Holy Day of All Saints Day which is about remembering and honoring our dead loved ones. The only country that still practices it correctly on a widespread basis (that I am aware of) is Mexico where it's called Day of the Dead... same thing really...

Answer 1

Halloween is pagan. It's based on Samhain, not All Saint's Day, and Samhain is a pagan holiday.



Christmas is pagan, too.

So is Easter.

Answer 2

No. There is absolutely nothing "pagan" about the cultural fall festival called Halloween. The overwhelming number of people who celebrate it see it as a fun day for children and a time for adults to be playful. It is, in fact, a way to make light of spooky superstitions and myths about the supernatural and occult and fears about death. This celebration of Halloween is different from the emerging trend among people identifying as modern pagans who celebrate a modern reconstruction of the Celtic/Druidic festival of Samhain in which the ancestors were remembered and honored and the clan prepared for the dark days of winter (pretty spooky and diabolic huh?) Problem is that certain Christians misinterpret the festivities and also believe that the myths and superstitions that are parodied during Halloween are "true" or else that modern pagans and occultists are doing something nefarious on Halloween just like in the myths and superstitions suggest. Unfortunately, these same Christians are now no longer even observing Christian holidays like Christmas or Easter because they believe that doing so is also participating in pagan traditions. Halloween began as a reinterpretation of Samhain when people in Europe decided to embrace Christianity.

Answer 3

The church made it All Hallow's Eve to steer people away from the pagan holiday of Samhain. They did the same for Christmas since many agree that Jesus was actually born in the summertime. They made it on the 25th to keep people away from the Winter Solstice. So actually, there is a pagan underlying but the church stole it and made it Christian. The traditions like food and carving pumpkins and costumes come from pagan lore. Happy Halloween ***** from a pagan.

Answer 4

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You have the ORIGINS of Hallowe'en correct,



[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween says this; ]



Halloween or Hallowe'en (a contraction of "All Hallows' Evening") also known as All Hallows' Eve, is a yearly celebration observed in a number of countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day. It initiates the triduum of Hallowmas, the time in the liturgical year dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the faithful departed believers.



According to many scholars, All Hallows' Eve is a Christianized feast initially influenced by Celtic harvest festivals, with possible pagan roots, particularly the Gaelic Samhain. Other academics maintain that it originated independently of Samhain and has solely Christian roots.



Typical festive Halloween activities include trick-or-treating (or the related "guising" or "trunk-or-treating"), attending costume parties, decorating, carving pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, playing pranks, telling scary stories, and watching horror films.



None of the above is Bible based, as it was all added by pagans who claimed to be Christians in the Roman Catholic Church.

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Answer 5

It is part of the puritan notion ad tradition of banning being against holidays that started with at least Oliver Cromwell and his round heads- who banned theater, Christmas and other holy days of the Church.

Going to Church on December 25th even if it was a Sunday could get you arrested under the English commonwealth of Oliver Cromwell.

While the Celtic new year was November 1, and I have read that Saint Patrick

when setting up the Irish Liturgy had selected to move All Saints day to November 1 as a way to Christianize the Irish by using an existing holiday and practice to teach about Christ.

Answer 6

Your correct that Halloween is a christian holiday.



It was however invented to give a "respectable christian" alternative to existing pagan traditions....specifically the Gaelic festival of Samhain (Summers end).



What happened instead was that the majority of the folk refused to give up their ancestral traditions, and they simply ended up using the christian name for the holiday, but went right on practicing the customs they had always practiced.

Answer 7

Halloween did originate amongst pagans. Pagans are not evil. Despite what the christian church will try and have society believe there is nothing wrong with being pagan and celebrating pagan holidays. Christmas has pagan roots too, as does easter.

Answer 8

Read the wiki article on Halloween. Your origin is only one of many. It is very much a smorgasbord of beliefs. That said, I think what is in our hearts and our intent in celebrating is what is important to God. Some people do use it as an excuse to misbehave and others use it for a chance to gather and have fun with family and friends. How do YOU celebrate?

Answer 9

there's no point in honoring the dead... they can't hear you.



"So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep." "His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them." Job 14:12, 21. "Neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun." Ecclesiastes 9:5-6.

Answer 10

um no. saints day was established by the catholic church because they wanted to distract people from the occult holiday. many things in society have occult symbols, all seeing eye, pyramids, Halloween... People worship these things, I mean really if you think about it. even Christmas doesn't even belong to HIM anymore, its about a fat guy with toys...



these things are hard to accept... but the occult has infiltrated slowly over time. If you look at some of the first Cathedrals you see occult symbols on them. First Cathedrals were made by the stone masons later known as free masons which include many presidents of our history. Freemasons were infiltrated by illuminati after they started to accept members who weren't stone masons. illuminati, an occult group who wishes to control us all for their own needs.. after you go beyond 33rd degree of masons you become illuminated thus bringing the term illuminati... did I mention Bush was part of skulls and bones, the group that stole pancho villas head and is an official 33rd degree mason or perhaps even higher!

Answer 11

I just don't think it is a good practice for Christians to follow. "Trick or Treat" is not very Christ-like, don' t you think? I like the Church's fall festivals much better. I don't care to scare kids "to death".

Answer 12

All saints day was originally in May and was changed to Nov 1 by Pope Greg IV or V to encompass the pagan festival.



Please do your research before posting.

Answer 13

Paul in Philippians 4 states that we should focus on the positive (Phil 4:8)

Answer 14

Its Nov. 4. I've had enough Halloween questions.

Answer 15

some denominations tries to make their churches appear more right than others by trivial and meaningless things (although fun esp. for children).

Answer 16

Believe what you want, pal.