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?
“It was because of cases like that that I refused to have anything to do with children other than my own. I never coached Little League, was never a Scout Leader or any of that. I don’t even like having other people’s children over my house. I think a lot of other men feel the same way. “
I can’t fault you for thinking that way. Anyone following those cases came to realize that just normal life could put you in jeopardy. A bit of paranoia was warranted.
There is nothing Christian about Halloween. And for many years now I have refused to celebrate it as most of my family does not celebrate it.
A bevvy of Satanists? Oh, yes, the 1980's.
Yes. I'm sure that the police would just quietly break up Satanists performing rituals in the woods, including child sacrifices because not arresting them for murder or even filing a police report that would be a matter of public record would be better than starting a panic. / s
A now discredited book called "Michelle Remembers" published in 1980 seems to have been the catalyst for the panic that saw Satanism everywhere during the next decade. It was also the topic de jure for many years on shows like Oprah, Geraldo, Sally Jesse Raphael, etc. On these shows, parents' were warned to look for signs that their children were being abused by Satanists at their daycare centers and pre-schools so of course any out of the ordinary behaviors by their children were chalked up to something sinister by some well meaning parents who then put them into "therapy" often with social workers with little or no psychiatric training and with some who used the "repressed memory / guided memory" therapy techniques to "uncover" what their confirmation bias told them must be true.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Remembers
Michelle Remembers is a book published in 1980 co-written by Canadian psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder and his psychiatric patient (and eventual wife) Michelle Smith. A best-seller, Michelle Remembers was the first book written on the subject of Satanic ritual abuse and is an important part of the controversies beginning in the 1980's regarding satanic ritual abuse and repressed memory. The book has been discredited by several investigations which found no corroboration of the book's events, while others have pointed out that the events described in the book were extremely unlikely and in some cases impossible.
The Grescoe article (see Criticism section) did not garner much attention and the allegations in Michelle Remembers were still considered by many in the early 1980s to be true. As a result, Pazder was considered to be an expert in the area of satanic ritual abuse. With the sudden emergence of Satanic ritual abuse cases in the 1980s (likely due in part to the publication of Michelle Remembers) Pazder's expertise was called upon. In 1984, Pazder acted as a consultant in the McMartin preschool trial which featured allegations of satanic ritual abuse. Pazder also appeared on the first major news report on Satanism (broadcast on May 16, 1985), by ABC's 20/20. Pazder was part of the Cult Crime Impact Network and lectured to police agencies about satanic ritual abuse during the late 1980s. By 1987 Pazder reported that he was spending a third of his time consulting on Satanic ritual abuse cases.[8] By September 1990, Pazder had been consulted "in more than 1,000 'ritual abuse' cases". With people suddenly being prosecuted for satanic ritual abuse, prosecutors used the book as a guide when preparing cases against alleged Satanists. Prior to the start of the Kern County child abuse cases several local social workers had attended a training seminar that foregrounded satanic ritual abuse as a major element in child sexual abuse and used Michelle Remembers as training material.
Pazder was psychiatrist of dubious credentials and ethics who believed in "repressed memory / guided memory" therapy that he used on his then married psychiatric patient, Michelle Smith, who he then began an affair with (highly unethical) and later married. Pazder also made a lot of money as a "consultant" often working with police departments and prosecutors and taught his techniques for training social workers and others on uncovering so called "repressed memory" and finding "signs" of Satanic ritual abuse that sometimes could be as simple as a young child wetting their bed or any changes in appetite or having nightmares.
The McMartin case was a hysteria ginned up by the Childrens’ Institute International and their technique of suggestive questioning that produced bizarre stories from the kids including a horse being killed and buried, kids being flushed down toilets and witches flying. There was no evidence of any of the charges against the McMartins but they were ruined by what amounted to a Salem witch trial mentality.
And also don't forget that one of the children in the McMartin case identified Chuck Norris as one of his abusers.
The McMartin case, the Fells Acres case along with several others during the 1980's and early 90's were grave miscarriages of justice and the result of hysteria, i.e. modern day witch hunts based on no evidence and worse, based on suggestive interviews where children were encouraged and rewarded for testifying to alleged ritual abuse and Satanic activity, even when most of the children initially vehemently denied it ever took place.
http://www.amazon.com/No-Crueler-Tyrannies-Accusation-Witness/dp/0743228405
It was because of cases like that that I refused to have anything to do with children other than my own. I never coached Little League, was never a Scout Leader or any of that. I don't even like having other people's children over my house. I think a lot of other men feel the same way.
Not just men. The other day a cute little toddler, a little boy, sitting in a grocery cart smiled and waved at me. My first reaction was to smile and wave back or even say hello to him, but now days...I just kept walking - sad.
My niece, who is the mother of 4 young children, works as a teacher's aide at another local elementary school from where her own children attend. She tells me that sometimes some of the younger children, because they like her, will come up and hug her. She's been trained to put up her hands in the air as to not give the appearance of touching them inappropriately or encouraging it. I also know a male music teacher who told me not long ago of a child, a 3rd grader coming up and hugging him saying "I love you Mr. Ed" and how he did the same as my niece as part of the standard protocol. And as he was alone with the children in the classroom with no other adults present, he immediately reported it to the Principal and wrote a statement on what had occurred in order to protect himself against any allegations that his behavior was in any way inappropriate.
Do you have an issue with movies or fiction in general?
My point went right by ya!
They don’t like the make believe of Halloween but they’ll watch a movie or participate on the Internet. Same thing. No doff.
The ‘Satanic Ritual Abuse’ hysteria had its roots in a 1980 book called ‘Michelle Remembers’ by Canadian psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder. It popularized the idea of repressed memories of various ritual abuses. The book was later exposed as a fraud. It was made up from whole cloth. Pazder wanted to cash in on the market for such things that was started by the equally false 1973 ‘case history’ Sybil. It was all B.S.
If we're Christians we should be following Christ. I've never seen this book in the bible:
Bizarre 14:1 And the disciples gathered together on the feast of the pagans known as Samhain.
Bizarre 14:2 And being gathered together, they saw the pagans going house to house, dressed as demons, and sorcerers, and witches.
Bizarre 14:3 Then Peter stood and said "Men and brethren. Let us do as the pagans do and let us dress up and go from house to house as they do.
Bizarre 14:4 For we have the liberty to do so and it looketh like a lot of fun."
Bizarre 14:5 So they dressed. Here is the manner in which they dressed:
Bizarre 14:6 Peter dressed as a witch and Andrew his brother dressed as a cat that is black. James dressed as a ghost. John dressed as a soothsayer.
Bizarre 14:7 Philip and Bartholomew dressed as demons. Thomas, and Matthew the publican, dressed as vampires.
Bizarre 14:8 James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus whose surname was Thaddaeus dressed as werewolves.
Bizarre 14:9 Simon the Canaanite dressed as a hobo. And Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Christ, dressed as a princess.
Bizarre 14:10 They then sought Jesus, the Lord. Finding him in the synagogue, they began to boast.
Bizarre 14:11 Saying "Lord Lord, look, I am a witch!" And "I am a princess."
Bizarre 14:12 And their contention was great for each wished to gain the approval of the Lord for their costumes.
Bizarre 14:13 But Christ said "Have you not read where my Father said to not worship as the nations do?"
Bizarre 14:14 Peter said "Lord, we do not worship the pagan gods, but only you O Lord. But we taketh great joy in dressing up and doing as they do."
Bizarre 14:15 Then Jesus said "Verily Peter, you knoweth more than my father and I. Let us proclaim today as a day we all do as the pagans do and dress up, and go from house to house with great joy.
Bizarre 14:16 Further, I proclaim that the Holy Days I created with my Father, and caused to be written in the book of the law, are not to be observed henceforth."
Bizarre 14:17 And Jesus went to looketh for a costume but the hour was late and finding none, he said "Behold" and instantly his countenance became as one who is dead, and still walks the earth.
Bizarre 14:18 And Jesus did winneth the prize for best costume at the Samhain party and all were joyful.
Bizarre 14:19 But Judas was of dark countenance, for he desired his princess costume to win the prize.
[It was all B.S.]
What happened in my area happened.
Feel free to link to a source.
I did NOT write all that as one paragraph.
I had all that formatted to each number, with spaces and breaks!!
The instances of which I wrote, happened. Actually, there is much more, but will refrain, as it is simply not the right venue for details. There is also a strong undertow here, which has chosen to disbelieve the evil many have had to deal with.
As I have personally been involved with individuals tied or appointed to cases already mentioned, (very sick situations), the only conclusion is that most people today do not believe or understand the war spoken of in Ephesians 6, or of the many other warnings given.
It is inherent in all of us to defend our morality and beliefs, and philosophies.
It is even harder when the perceived authorities and narrative (media/academia/law enforcement) supports our morality, beliefs, and philosophies.
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