Atheist Questions the Practice of Halloween...

Sir Francis Dashwood | 10-31-01 | Sir Francis Dashwood

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

It never ceases to amaze me that most Christians would criticize me for being an atheist, yet they will "celebrate" a macabre pagan holiday. They inculcate their children into the practice of it and feed them the most unhealthful things you could give a child to eat.

Likewise, many atheists criticize me for being a "right-winger." Most atheists are so caught up in their polemics, they have become nothing more than anti-Christians - or what I call the Religious Left (a collaboration of the Marxist religion, neo-pagan animal/tree/earth worshipper eco-fascists and general technophobes).

Why do you "celebrate" on certain "holidays," what are you celebrating, do you really know? Or have you been so lost in the conformity of it all to really take a look at what you partake in?

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Then why did you come here?

To this thread? To challenge your agressive egotism, of course. No doubt you don't see your posts in this light. That's the problem.

Your problem, not mine...

[Snuffington]

Your problem, not mine...

Quite the contrary. Aggressive egotists constantly inflict themselves upon the rest of us. They tear down traditions they haven't begun to understand in the name of their self-proclaimed superior reasoning.

To the extent you fit this description, you make yourself a problem. Hopefully not an intractable one.

[Dog Gone]

I never stated any objections.

Who said you did? My response wasn't directed to you.

[america76]

Satan can masquerade as harmless and even good. does it all the time. Subtle smoke and mirrors and slight of hand are his tactics against Christians. He knows he cannot be brazen and outwardly honest. No Christian worth his salt would fall for the obvious. That's why we must be ever vigilant. The deception can be so smooth it is hard to notice.

Personally I think the best thing to do is every now and again take stock and analyse everything you do, feel and believe. Think it over carefully with the help of the Holy Spirit and make the necessary changes where needed. I'm not saying just do what you feel between these sessions. Ongoing and eternal vigilance is best, but searching yourself every now and again will help expose those things that get through the cracks.

God Bless

[It's me]

Do you likewise know what Christmas is about? Satan Claus all dressed in red setting everyone up for a day of greed, lust, drunkeness and gluttoney? The pagan earth worship of a tree with cheap tinsel trinkets?

Uhh, that's not the Christmas I celebrate.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

I could be wrong, but I think Halloween is "Hallow e'en", or "Hallow even" (hallowed evening). It is the evening before All Saints Day, a Roman Catholic holiday. I think that's the origin.

Food for thought...

From Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan:

Part IV. Of the Kingdom of Darkness. Chap xlvii. Of the Benefit that proceedeth from such Darkness...

[21] For from the time that the Bishop of Rome had gotten to be acknowledged for bishop universal, by pretense of successsion to St. Peter, their whole hiearchy (or kingdom of darkness) may be compared to the kingdom of fairies (that is, to the old wives' fables in England, concerning ghosts and spirits and the feats they play in the night). And if a man consider the original of this great ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily percieve that the Papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. For so did the Papacy start up on a sudden out of the ruins of that heathen empire.

[23] The fairies, in what nation soever they converse, have but one universal king, which some poets of ours call King Oberon; but the Scripture calls Beelzebub, prince of demons. The ecclesiastics likewise, in whose dominions soever they be found, acknowledge but one universal king, the Pope.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

November 1st is All Saints Day and the night prior to that is Hallow eve --so I consider Halloween as a Catholic Holiday--we are really honoring the dead and to be exact--the dead Saints.

Food for thought...

From Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan:

Part IV. Of the Kingdom of Darkness. Chap xlvii. Of the Benefit that proceedeth from such Darkness...

[21] For from the time that the Bishop of Rome had gotten to be acknowledged for bishop universal, by pretense of successsion to St. Peter, their whole hiearchy (or kingdom of darkness) may be compared to the kingdom of fairies (that is, to the old wives' fables in England, concerning ghosts and spirits and the feats they play in the night). And if a man consider the original of this great ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily percieve that the Papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. For so did the Papacy start up on a sudden out of the ruins of that heathen empire.

[23] The fairies, in what nation soever they converse, have but one universal king, which some poets of ours call King Oberon; but the Scripture calls Beelzebub, prince of demons. The ecclesiastics likewise, in whose dominions soever they be found, acknowledge but one universal king, the Pope.