Halloween 2009 vs All Saints Day (Eternally)
Monday October 26, 2009
Categories: Christians, prayer and ritual
Hey Christians! Stop putting a camel hair rope around Halloween on October 31st, and instead take advantage of what happens on Nov. 1st - All Saints Day. It seems like we used to hear more from Christians who decried...
Filed Under: All Saints Day, and to dust you shall return, Dia de Los Muertos, Halloween, Halloween 2009, Halloween Costumes, Halloween Costumes 2009, Hell Houses, Hell Houses 2009
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Thank you for approaching the day in an open minded, non superstitious fashion. If you look for evil in anything, you will surely find it. Isn't the point to look for ways to put a positive spin on whatever life brings by focusing on the love and grace of God? The entire idea of the "Hell House" is a shame. We should not be promote fear in any way.
Great article! I do not come from a tradition that celebrates Ash Wednesday or All Saints Day, but the intent of the message is certainly agreed with!
As a Pentecostal pastor, I have taken a "lot of heat" for my position on "Holoween" and "Trick-or-Treating."
Most evangelicals of my sort do not celebrate any type of Holoween at all. It is viewed as demonic. If one does put up decorations, for example, they may very well be possessed!
If a group of children were gathered in the church basement, they were all dressed in black, had spray-painted a pentagram on the floor, had sacrificed a black cat and placed it's dying body at the center of the pentagram, they were all holding hands and were chanting to the devil, then I would be concerned. But a child, that one-time-a-year dresses up like "Aquaman" and roves up and down a few streets in the neighborhood for free candy from benevolent folks, then hightails it home with his "loot" an hour or so later - - I'm sorry, but I just don't see the devil in it.
While we are at remembering the saints who have died, it may be well to follow Paul's example in his letters and remember that we also are the saints of God. The day is a good reminder that we are called to be in union with God in this world as well as the next.
Im sorry i completly understand where yall are coming from in saying that this day is just a day for kids to get candy and have fun dresssing up as princesses and cowboys but the truth is this is and will be a pagan holiday wether you want to admit it or not. I feel as if our so called christians have let the devil in by allowing halloween and saying oh its just a day for fun. No its not a day for fun. On this day thousands of satanic rituals will take place all over the world and instead of looking and seeing this with truthfulness it taken as a day to have fun. let me tell you those thousands of sacrifices are not having fun they are dying and we are makin a holiday from. Christians open your eyes and see the truth behind this.
Halloween is satanic celebration.
No one should be envolved in it.
And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of
righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.
"on this day thousands of satanic rituals will take place all over the world" i'm sorry but this happens all year long, we live in a secular world people! it is what we do with the circumstances that counts. God gave us freedom, why should my freedom be sacrificed because of your conscience? Those who are evil will promote evil all year, not just on Halloween. If you read the history of Halloween you will see that when it was "evil" it was actually in the month of MAY, the Roman Catholics changed it to October since it is the eve of saints day...I just do not see how my spiderman son knocking on doors one day out of the year is going to send us to hell...it is not!
SATAN IS WITHIN THIS TEXT!
MUAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
Happy Halloweeen.
Since the Dio des Muertos was mentioned earlier in this post, how about the Days of the Dead between Hallowe'en and Remembrance Day on November the 11th? I mean that the leaves are mostly off the trees, but there is no snow on the ground yet: the time when nature itself seems to be undead in Canada.
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