Posted on 10/19/2018 8:33:25 PM PDT by Patriot777
I am thankful for this thread...reminded me to order a costume for my dog for an upcoming party. The little minx is going as a flapper, so she’s doubly-doomed.
Merchants holiday... is hallowed ween (look it up) called a “holiday” as we all know is a moniker for holy day?
[WIKI] “The word holiday comes from the Old English word “holy” + dæg “day”). The word originally referred only to special religious days. In modern use, it means any special day of rest or relaxation, as opposed to normal days away from work or school.”
The beginnings of this holy day are well known, yet overlooked in the name of fun.
Ya’ll can play on the side of the slippery ditch called fun... because “it’s for the children” which many believe makes it automatically acceptable. But one has to be careful when playing around a slippery ditch...you might slip and fall in.
My old hard scrabble farmer Uncle Harry once told me “some things yer just better off leavin’ be.” Uncle wasn’t a religious man but he was a follower of The Way, and one hot summer night at a tent meeting (a real tent meeting), after listening to overwrought confessions and tear jerkin” testimonies, he pulled me out of that “tent show” and as we were driving back to his hard scrabble farm in his hard scrabble pickup I asked him about those graphic testimonies. He told me “boy, some are true, some fabricated, and some things you just take to grave cuz those are between just you and the Lord.”
Uncle Harry never celebrated any Holy Days except he did observe Thanksgiving, Memorial Day, Independence Day, and Veterans Day. He said halloween was wicked, and Christmas was full of the pagan and should of been moved to October... October? “You mean Holloween?” I asked. “Yep” he replied the Devil made sure to spit on the days (time period of the year) our Saviour was really born by foolin’ folks into celebratin ol satan hisself.” I think Uncle Harry was on to something. And that’s why I don’t partake.
Very bad theology, here.
Halloween mocks the concept of ‘death’. It is not the end.
Someday, we allll will find out.
Speaking of worshiping Satan, we said a special prayer in devotions last night for Kavanaugh. The witches’ hex ceremonies are supposed to happen today.
To wear a costume is not to worship.
How is one to portray a villain if portrayal is worship of the villain?
Too arbitrary, FRiend.
Besides, showing hellish sights is good for the soul. The left loves to candy-coat hellfire.
And imagine what this mindset does to Hansel and Gretel. The witch must look like a nun?
Good grief October 31 is the eve of the feast of All Saints.
Because they believe it is a MYTH.
THANK-YOU!
It is the eve to the feast of All Saints. I will not comment any more.
Right. From Darwin to Doubt. ‘Higher’ learning is now lower unlearning.
‘But we don’t have to cower before it.’
Right. That’s the flip-side.
It’s good to be aware of evil. But it’s also helpful to many kids to make light of it. Running around looking like ghosties — laughing and having fun. Good mental health.
It helps to know that Halloween is part of a three day long Christian holiday called Allhallowtide. It begins with Halloween, the next day being All Saints Day, followed by All Souls Day. It is not inherently evil or satanic, any more than Easter or Christmas, unless you think it such.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allhallowtide
The basic idea is that, for a three day period, the veil between our world and the next becomes thin. Those souls with “issues” are anxious to return to this world and so come through on the first day. They want to seek out the living they remember, so are anxious and confused. The wearing of costumes, especially by children, is so that these shades do not pester them.
The second day, All Saints’ Day, is when the most virtuous of Christians pass through the veil. They act like shepherds to bring the anxious souls back; but they also impart blessings on the living while they are here.
The third day, All Souls’ Day, is for the vast majority, the peaceful dead. It is seen in things like the Mexican Day of the Dead, where families go to picnic, and remember their honorable dead family members.
The bottom line is that Allhallowtide can be a non-sectarian Christian holiday, once it is removed from those who would corrupt it, as they have Easter and Christmas. To refuse to participate because some have commercialized or corrupted its meaning is to let the bad guys win.
Umm.
Thank-you for the info!
Poppycock.
Halloween, or All-Hallows Eve is not Satanic. Nov 1 being a day of great feasting and celebration (which meant costuming). The All-Hallows Day/All Saints Day/All Martyrs Day celebration would also include poking fun of, and even slandering, those responsible for martyring the Saints, and even demonizing the unpopular dead. It would also create a need for collecting supplies or ‘treats’ the night before as part of preparations for feasting. Children, in general not allowed into adult parties, could be useful and find a sweet reward in helping to collect foodstuffs for the ‘block party’.
All Saints Day (Nov 1) and All Souls Day (Nov 2 unless the 2nd is a Sunday then it’s the 3rd) are both feast days declared by the Church. Odilo, Abbot of Cluny (France) is credited with setting aside Nov 2 for families to honor their own dead after the Martyrs were celebrated. The celebration on Nov 2 also began with a local feast.
From BBC:
“In the 8th century, on 1st November, Pope Gregory III dedicated a chapel to all the saints in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Gregory IV then made the festival universal throughout the Church, and 1st November has subsequently become All Saints’ Day for the western Church.”
...there are supporters of the view that Hallowe’en, as the eve of All Saints’ Day, originated entirely independently of Samhain and some question the existence of a specific pan-Celtic religious festival which took place on 31st October/1st November...
...In his book Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night, Nicholas Rogers states:
“Festivals commemorating the saints as opposed to the original Christian martyrs appear to have been observed by 800. In England and Germany, this celebration took place on 1st November. In Ireland, it was commemorated on 20th April, a chronology that contradicts the widely held view that the November date was chosen to Christianize the festival of Samhain.”
Steve Roud, in a A Pocket Guide To Superstitions Of The British Isles writes:
“...however strong the evidence in Ireland, in Wales it was 1st May and New Year which took precedence, in Scotland there is hardly any mention of it until much later, and in Anglo-Saxon England even less.”
Ronal Hutton, Stations of the Sun writes in A History of the Ritual Year in Britain:
“...the earliest Welsh literature attributes no arcane significance to these dates (in sharp contrast to May Eve) and describes no gatherings then (in sharp contrast to New Year). It must be concluded, therefore, that the medieval records furnish no evidence that 1st November was a major pan-Celtic festival, and none of religious ceremonies, even where it was observed. An Anglo-Saxon counterpart is difficult either to prove or to dismiss completely.”
There's nothing satanic about All Hallow's (All SAINTS) Eve. Loosen your corset.
I was being sarcastic to make a point for crying out loud.
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