Posted on 11/01/2015 7:32:13 AM PST by SeekAndFind
This year, 64 percent of all Americans will celebrate Halloween, but I will not be one of them. For me, it is a wretched, horrible holiday that celebrates the darkest side of humanity, and it is deeply rooted in ancient pagan traditions that would get people thrown in prison if they attempted to duplicate them today. With each passing year, the sexually suggestive costumes being marketed to our young girls become even skankier, the horror movies become darker and even more demonic, and the number of Americans that participate in occult ceremonies just continues to grow. In fact, it has been estimated that the number of self-identified witches in the United States is doubling every 30 months. Those that are deeply into the occult take this holiday very seriously, and the dark forces that they are dealing with are very real. So no, I don’t want anything to do with this festival of death. In no particular order, the following are 18 reasons why I don’t celebrate Halloween…
#1 I don’t want anyone in my family to observe a holiday that celebrates death, witchcraft and the occult. This year, millions of Americans will participate in activities that could potentially open up a door for demonic activity.
#2 The average American spends $74.34 on the holiday. I would rather save the money.
#3 Millions of women use Halloween as an excuse to dress like street walkers, and millions of men use Halloween as an excuse to act like sexual predators.
#4 Even little girls as young as three years old are being dressed up in sexually provocative costumes. What kind of message does this send to them?
#5 Dressing up little children as ghosts, demons and vampires is not healthy for them. In recent years, there has been a trend to make costumes for children as hellish as possible.
#6 Originally, costumes were worn on October 31st “to change the personality of the wearer to allow for communication with the spirit world“. For 11 years in a row, dressing up as a witch has been the number one costume choice for adults in the United States.
#7 In ancient Britain, the festival known as Samhain was celebrated on October 31st. It was supposedly a day when dead souls would revisit their old homes. Personally, I don’t want anything to do with contacting the souls of the dead.
#8 According to the History Channel, Samhain was also the day when the Druids “gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities”.
#9 As I have written about previously, the fastest growing religion in America still practices a holiday known as “Samhain” to this very day.
#10 According to Wiccans, Halloween is the time when the veil between the living and the dead is considered to be the thinnest. They believe that on this day their god “dies” and is reborn every year on the Winter Solstice. This year the winter solstice falls on December 22nd.
#11 In ancient times, the resurrection of the sun god required human and animal sacrifice. The following is what occult expert Bill Schnoebelen says that the Druids would do at this time of the year…
Druids worshiped the sun god, called by names like Bel (Ba’al?) or Chrom. On October 31, they believed that he died and went into the kingdom of the dead, Anwynn. The purpose of Samhain was to insure his return. Even witches admit this involved human sacrifice.
Both animal and human blood were believed to be needed to resurrect Bel on Samhain. Human blood was believed to open the gates of Anwynn and released the spirits for a night. Thus, October 31 came to be associated with ghosts. This is not just history. Samhain is still celebrated by Pagans and is the most solemn ceremony on their “religious calendar”.
#12 To this day, animal torture and sacrifice is still practiced on Halloween by occultists. Many animal shelters will not adopt out black cats during the month of October for this very reason.
#13 In the early seventh century, a Catholic Pope known as Gregory the First decided that the best approach to ensure the continued spread of Catholicism was to “christianize” existing pagan holidays and practices…
As a result of their efforts to wipe out “pagan†holidays, such as Samhain, the Christians succeeded in effecting major transformations in it. In 601 A.D. Pope Gregory the First issued a now famous edict to his missionaries concerning the native beliefs and customs of the peoples he hoped to convert. Rather than try to obliterate native peoples’ customs and beliefs, the pope instructed his missionaries to use them: if a group of people worshipped a tree, rather than cut it down, he advised them to consecrate it to Christ and allow its continued worship.
#14 The tradition of “trick-or-treating” was one of the existing pagan traditions that was later “Christianized”…
The idea of trick-or-treating is further related to the ghosts of the dead in pagan, and even Catholic, history. For example, among the ancient Druids, “The ghosts that were thought to throng about the houses of the living were greeted with a banquet-laden table. At the end of the feast, masked and costumed villagers representing the souls of the dead paraded to the outskirts of town leading the ghosts away.â€
As already noted, Halloween was thought to be a night when mischievous and evil spirits roamed freely. As in modern poltergeist lore, mischievous spirits could play tricks on the living—so it was advantageous to “hide†from them by wearing costumes. Masks and costumes were worn to either scare away the ghosts or to keep from being recognized by them
#15 The tradition of carving out a “Jack-O-Lantern” also comes from paganism. The following comes from wicca.com…
Turnips were hollowed out and carved to look like protective spirits, for this was a night of magic and chaos. The Wee Folke became very active, pulling pranks on unsuspecting humans. Traveling after dark was not advised.
And as Bill Schnoebelen has noted, pumpkins eventually replaced turnips, but the meaning remained the same…
Here it’s a pumpkin, but in Europe it was often a turnip, or a skull with a candle in it. This serves two symbols, 1) the lord of the Dead, a “god†just like a Buddha – in short, an idol. 2) The fearsome face represented the god, Samhain, who would drive off less powerful demons that night. The lights in the Jack-o-Lantern symbolize the “faery fires†or “Will’o the Wisps†which were believed to be the lost souls flitting through the night. They also hearken back to the huge Samhain “balefires†which were lit to help conjure back the god from the darkness.
#16 On all Satanic holy days, there are children that get ritually abused. This has been documented repeatedly, and yet most people (including most Christians) don’t want to hear about it.
#17 For Satanists, Halloween is one of the most important celebrations of the year. On page 96 of the Satanic Bible, Anton LaVey wrote the following…
“After one’s own birthday, the two major Satanic holidays are Walpurgisnacht (May 1st) and Halloween.”
#18 The Scriptures are very clear about this sort of thing. Deuteronomy 18:9-13 says the following: “When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults with the dead. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord”.
So what about you?
Please don’t be to harsh with this author. We have plenty of room for another harmless crackpot.
[I assume you are talking about the McMartin Preschool.]
No, this happened in the Midwest in the 80s. There were a bevvy satanists in the area. They were doing evil rituals in a secluded rural area. The police broke them up. It didn’t make the papers to prevent paranoia.
Ro'sh HaShanah is the most ancient holiday. It's the anniversary of the Sixth Day of Creation when G-d made Adam and Eve (and they procreated, sinned, and were kicked out). It's even called Harat `Olam (literally "conception of the world" but traditionally translated "birthday of the world") in the prayerbook.
The Celtic "new year" ("halloween") is actually kind of like Ro'sh HaShanah: it begins at sunset and occurs in the fall. It may very well be a twisted and paganized Celtic retention of the memory of Ro'sh HaShanah.
BTW, has anyone else noticed something interesting? We have all these "right wing chrstians" defending old pagan holidays and calling people "Puritans" and "Taliban," yet any suggestion that actual BIBLICAL holidays be celebrated would probably cause them to hold a crucifix out in front of them against the "evil" of the suggester.
Did they remember their goat leggings?
It's not a real bevvy Satanist rally with women secretly saving baby's from secret pregnancies to sacrifice at secluded rural areas if they forgot their goat leggings.
Newspapers are notorious for not covering child sacrifice in rural areas too.
My only issue with Halloween is going door to door bumming candy from others.
Gibsmedat!
You know I thought it was Kama, but didn’t want to do the search. Damn...blew the whole thing.
That’s OK, don’t beat yourself up over a small mistake. Other FReepers will be happy to do that for you.
Yeah, right. I'd love to see the original text of a pope directing people to worship a tree. Interesting that the author doesn't back up this absurd claim with a link to the "famous edict."
“The Wee Folke became very active, pulling pranks on unsuspecting humans. Traveling after dark was not advised.”
Always busting on the Wee Folk.
Hey! They are just blowing off steam!
Next, you’ll want them all heightening!
You are correct.
I have personally been involved in 7 states in the past 30 years, where law enforcement officers themselves needed help after having dealt with child sacrifice on October 31st and May 1.
In all cases, the dismembered children’s murders were ultimately covered up.
In every case, the media were able to convince the local population they had not happened, despite what had been experienced, recorded, and sealed by law enforcement.
As well, the psychological modus operandi has and is to get the population to mock those who either believed the murders happened, or to laugh at and marginalize those who have stated their involvement in investigating the actual murders.
I’m starting to change my mind about Star and Stripes Forever’s church.
They have a pastor and a sheriff that run around busting up Satanist baby sacrificing rings and a congregation that nods and goes along with it.
Could be the most entertaining Sunday morning I’ve had in years...
It’s definitely been, uhm, revealing.
In at least five separate cases, law enforcement officers who had spoken out about the child murders being investigated, were later assaulted by individuals who had been associated with the same Satanist groups which had been involved in the murders.
But hey, the left-wing media/academia/political juggernaut of our time laugh at those who are against child murder anyway.
Guess they can help save Gia from overpopulation and man caused global cooling/warming/climate change. /s
Just like the psy-ops campaigns of pre WWII Germany, which successfully isolated Jews and Christians from the rest of society by using cartoons and humor to make fun of them, thereby causing the rest of society to desire disassociation with them, any person today who is more than a nominal Christian will continue to experience an ever increasingly hostile society, which ultimately will seek there elimination.
In the end, what did they do to Christ...
Unfortunately, while it would be a gross understatement to say hypocrisy certainly abounds amongst those who profess to be “Christian,” isn’t it interesting how since the 1960’s it has become against the law for students to pray in school, for a team to pray on a field, for a cross or nativity scene to be displayed in many public locations, and many Ten Commandments monuments (at least in part foundational to our legal system) have been ordered removed.
All of this has happened, while it remains perfectly acceptable for schools and public locations to celebrate the most important dates of pagans and Satanist (who themselves do not even hide their war with anything Christian).
As well, it has also been increasingly acceptable to celebrate Sharia Islam.
Anything but Christianity -
While halloween may be mostly innocuous, and we can get a bunch of free candy, there are other “Christian” holiday’s to be celebrated on October 31st. It is plain stupid that Christians would revel in a pagan/Satanist celebration, even if only symbolic (when pagans and Satanist themselves are in an often self-professed war with “Christians”, and with God).
How is it not hypocritical for “Christians” to celebrate paganism and Satanism, and then get upset with murder for example, as “thou shalt kill” is one of the “ten commandments” in the Satanic Bible?
This is analogous to Europeans inviting in and celebrating (clapping) after muslims just sang about conquering them.
It would take an historically illiterate, hypocritical, stupid libtard at heart, to mock “Christians” for not symbolically celebrating Halloween itself, and then immediately turn around and mock “Christians” as hypocrites because “Christians” do what the world does.
Actually, the accuser would be more accurately be identified as sociopathic narcissists.
There’s really only 2 reasons in that list:
#1 the author is quite simply misinformed
#2 the author is a whiny killjoy
“Actually, the accuser would be more accurately be identified as sociopathic narcissists.”
Actually, the accuser would be more accurately identified as a sociopathic narcissists.
In the mid 1970’s a friend of mine from California who had previously been a leader in a prominent Satanist organization, was killed by members of the same group within a couple of years after he became a Christian and began shining light on their activities. Their activities included rape and murder of children.
At least three law enforcement officers who were investigating his murder, received death threats and moved their families out of the state.
It was some really bad stuff.
Amazingly, they have video of the arrests.
It only looks like Reno 911...
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