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?
I read Mein Kampf in college. Doesn’t make me a nazi.
I read the Karma Sutra when I was a young man. It did not make me a great lover. (lots of practice did.)
Reading competing ideas does not subject you to following them. In fact, most of the time it reinforces your own beliefs.
Sometimes, some of the holier than thou Christians on FR sound more like sharia follow muzzles. Or at the best, Puritans.
Really?
It’s called “tradition.”
Holidays generally fall on “traditional” date, not necessarily an actual anniversary.
Jeez. Who gives you the authority to question my authoritah.
“For 11 years in a row, dressing up as a witch has been the number one costume choice for adults in the United States.”
I don’t get it. Why would so many women want to look like Hillary Clinton?
This guy sounds like an insufferable old scold who probably spends his time playing Taylor Swift songs backwards to try and find satanic messages in them. In fact, that's probably what he used the $74.34 he saved by not celebrating Halloween on.
I do find the trick-or-treating a bit tiresome however after all these years, especially now that the children are grown up and moved out of the house. Last night, my wife and I turned the outside lights off on the house and we went to a German restaurant in which we had potato pancakes, apple sauce, schnitzel, strudel and a small barrel of beer. On the way there and back, we listened to the Spook station on Sirius radio and took the long way home through some dark woods. That was how I celebrated Halloween and I liked it.
You can’t tell the size from the photo. It would have to be either 1.5 times larger or .75 times smaller. Here the kicker: it cannot be used to convey the idea that it is real, for example, by leaving it as a tip.
[Good gawd. What ‘region’ did you live in?]
Small town America. Evil can spring up anywhere.
I've had frustrated waitresses show them to me.
Typically, a well dressed group apparently just from church would eat and pay for just the meal and leave it folded on the table.
I've seen both $10's and $20's.
It happened often enough that they weren't fooled and were just annoyed.
There were bible stores in the area that sold tablets full of them that you tore off.
[It was all made up.]
How much different is baby sacrifice than the atrocities being done by ISIS and inner city gangs? Open your eyes.
Huh? How does Halloween have anything to do with ISIS...except for some trick or treaters dressed like terrorists?
That 80's Day Care Centers/Satanists scam was worse than Nifong and the Duke Lacrosse case.
At least Nifong lost his law license and went to jail, the cops and prosecutors that persecuted people back in the 80's kept their jobs.
Don't make me use caps lock, those supposed satanic baby sacrifices never happened.
[That 80’s Day Care Centers/Satanists scam was worse than Nifong and the Duke Lacrosse case.]
It. happened. It was kept hush-hush.
Be careful how you make uninformed statements about pastors.
Yes it does, at least once, if not more, or ones very similar to it. Yawn!
That's OK.
Soon we will be tricked and treated by those not posting this sort of posts to the Religion Forum where it belongs into to reading posts on how Thanksgiving was a holiday created by Abraham Lincoln to perpetuate The War Of Northern Aggression, or not to mention that those nasty pre-Christian Europeans were pagans, most of them being our ancestors, also celebrated "harvest festivals" and how Thanksgiving is also "pagan" in origin, and that the only holidays that we should recognize are those recognized in the OT by semi-nomadic Jewish sheep herders living in Israel well over 2,000 years ago because, well culturally we have so much in common with them.
And of course as to #8 - the author surely chooses to ignore all the OT - in Deuteronomy and Leviticus in particular, the many and very detailed descriptions of the correct ways to perform animal sacrifices and burnt offerings to The Lord...but then as Emily Litella often said - "never mind".
And after Thanksgiving, with all its gluttony doncha know now, and then all those "Black Friday" sales the next day, with of course being "black", must have its roots in Satanism and Witchcraft, and BTW - of that pumpkin pie and oyster dressing or stuffing made with Jimmy Dean pork sausage or the Smithfield Ham if you're Southern, not being exactly Kosher or very "Biblical" = well enough said - we just can't have any of that!
And then on Thanksgiving there is the watching of the modern Gladiator Games - i.e. Football - oh the horrors !!!
After all the ancient Jews of Moses' time and even Jesus never played or enjoyed Football so then after all, neither should we - but like clockwork around here, after Thanksgiving and all its many "evils" lectured to and enumerated for us, next we will be "tricked and treated" by not posting this sort of post to the Religion Forum where it belongs and often to News/Activism forum, many posts that says Christmas is actually a pagan holiday or celebrated at the wrong time of year if it should be even celebrated at all, and such if you put up a Christmas Tree or Wreath on your door or bake a Yule Log, you are actually inviting the Devil into your home and that Santa is actually an anagram for Satan and that Frosty The Snowman is actually a Zombie of African Voodu and origins! Brawwhahhhahhhahhha!
FWIW I personally love going to my local mall and telling all the children waiting on line to see Santa, that not only will they "shoot their eye out" if they ask for a Red Rider BB Gun, but that they are also going straight to Hell even if they ask for a only football! And forget about his dad's Leg Lamp - pure evil I tell ya! /S
"and it is deeply rooted in ancient pagan traditions that would get people thrown in prison if they attempted to duplicate them today".
With all the serious crimes going on today, along with the recent erosion of our Constitutionally enumerated Rights and the government - on both the Federal and local level all too often overstepping their legal bounds, and with all the PC BS today that says that anything and everything is offensive to someone and can't therefore be "tolerated" and must be suppressed - no one allowed to have any "fun" - it would surely do my heart very good to see the local police "seek and find" and then jail or even torcher my little nieces and their parent's for going out trick or treating last night; one of them dressed as a ballerina, one dressed as a pirate, one dressed as a lion and two dressed as princesses, and also for jailing their neighbors, who willingly gave out candy and had those "evil" Jack-O-Lanterns on their porches, under your idea of a Christian Police State version of the Taliban because, well just because you don't like it.
Seek and Find - I think you might be hungry and since you didn't buy any candy for the trick or treaters' or probably for yourself and "you are not "you" when you're hungry" - lighten up "Betty" and have a Snickers Bar - it will make you feel better. : )
Great. You believe there is a huge conspiracy keeping all these satanic baby sacrifices from being known.
This was some of the worst prosecutorial misconduct in the last 50 years.
They hypnotized toddlers to make them tell whoppers about what was going on and taped it. There was no cross examination allowed of the accusers because they’re too delicate.
It’s similar to today where girls on campus can accuse a guy of rape or sexual harassment and not have to undergo questioning by the accused except the worst that can happen here is that the guy is tossed out of college instead of getting prison time.
It never happened, your pastor and sheriff is either a liar or a moron. Look for another church.
[It never happened, your pastor and sheriff is either a liar or a moron. Look for another church]
Bless you.
Your hush-hush is bullshit. People’s lives were ruined by police and prosecutors who had no interest in anything other than satisfying their own fantasies.
“It. happened. It was kept hush-hush.”
I assume you are talking about the McMartin Preschool. I had friends who worked for a well known Christian research group at the time and McMartin is something they followed closely. Among their sources were detectives on the case.
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.
Not sure how your post pertains to mine, but OK, whatever you say. (Kama Sutra, by the way, not Karma.)
As an aside, Martha Coakley was the prosecutor in that case and she fought like hell to keep them in prison even though she came to realize they were innocent as she did not want to jeopardize her political career. That's why it was so satisfying to me that she got beat like a rented mule in that special senate election that Scott Brown won back in 2010. Seems so long ago now.
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.
It’s our most ancient holiday. Sure, some could take it awry, but it’s easy not to do that too.
We went trick or treating yesterday, lots of kids, all cute. And even in the gang of teens that came to my door, none of the girls were dressed slutty. And this is in NJ.
It was a lovely fall day, really a perfect Halloween.
How many of these so called "druidic" sects celebrate 4/30? That's supposed to be even bigger than 10/31.
That's not the beginning. It was an ancient Celtic festival adopted by the western church as an act of "inculturation."
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