The Truth And Halloween

[spook]

I suppose that I’ll get the usual attacks for this but I have no option as a Christian other than make it clear that the forthcoming “halloween” is an event that people should have nothing whatsoever to do with.

 

As with many things that The Christian Church engaged with in Europe as part of the spreading of The Good News festivals were often run in parallel with pagan events, part in order to call people into The Truth, and part to limit hostility as The Truth became know,

 

The increasingly popular “halloween” is an example of how evil creeps in when good gets ignored.

 

The name Halloween derives from “All Saints Day” or as it is sometimes called All Hallows Day which falls on the 1st of November.

 

Hence all hallow’s eve for the day before becomes all hallows ‘een (and shorter to Halloween) and which being on the 31st October coincides with the p*gan event of s*mhain and hence the association with evil being “celibrated” in its own right is an obscenity.

 

The Manx hop tu naa practice is arguably even worse as it doesn’t have any association with Christianity. It’s 100% p*gan involving divination, invocation of evil, and casting of spells. And you would encourage your children to be associated with such filth?

 

As a Christian in the full meaning of the word to do anything but make known and utterly condemn these dreadful practices is impossible.

 

Also as a true Christian rather than a member of an organisation which uses or is associated with Christianity the very idea of a separate group of people who are “saints” to have a celebration day in their own right as a collective is an anathema because all of us who are saved and live as close as we can to our Savior’s teaching are saints, but that’s a different matter.

 

So before you let your children engage with evil in the apparently innoxious but actually terribly dangerous events and practices of this horrible p*gan obscenity that is a parody of a Christian practice ask yourselves, do you really want your children to grow up literally hell bound?

 

Or would it not be so much better to spend a little time telling them The Good News in order for them to see the path to redemption and salvation?

 

So throw your jibes now those who will, if just a single person becomes saved from this little post now or sometime in the future it’ll be worth the all the insults and sneers handed out.

[slinkydevil]

What about the chocolate and sweets though?

[Stavros]

So before you let your children engage with evil in the apparently innoxious but actually terribly dangerous events and practices of this horrible p*gan obscenity that is a parody of a Christian practice ask yourselves, do you really want your children to grow up literally hell bound?

If you can prove to me that any children will grow up literally hell bound then I will do everything I can to stop it. Otherwise, it's just a bit of fun and you don't have any proof or evidence that your version of the truth and halloween is correct. It's just your misguided view against anyone elses view, misguided or otherwise.

[ans]

Without Halloween the turnip and pumpkin industry would fall into massive decline and jobs would be lost.

 

Farmers up and down the country would be putting shotguns in their mouths in a last act of hopeless desperation and that's YOUR FAULT

[ManxTaxPayer]

But Spook IS a turnip.

[When Skies Are Grey]

Farmers up and down the country would be putting shotguns in their mouths in a last act of hopeless desperation and that's YOUR FAULT

 

It's what the baby jeebus would want.....

[When Skies Are Grey]

PS, having just re-read the diatribe...I love the fact that Spook can't even bring him/herself to write the word PAGAN.....

 

Spook, coming soon to to a bell tower near you!

 

Fruitloop.

[slinkydevil]

[NAIRB]

Halloween! Puts the willies up me but that's another story

[NAIRB]

Halloween! Puts the willies up me but that's another story

[La_Dolce_Vita]

I am almost love your craziness Spook. It does make life more interesting.

 

Have you ever asked yourself whether there is actually any possibility of your views catching on to the extent of converting someone into a TRUE Christian as yourself?

 

And since when was Hop tu Naa about spells and invocation of evil?

 

Just please don't try to proselytise to the childers when they come knocking on your door.

[Stavros]

I love the fact that Spook can't even bring him/herself to write the word PAGAN.....

My wife used to treat me like a Pagan Saint, she would give me burnt offerings every night.

[Terse]

Spook's rant on here sounds remarkably like one written by 'name and address supplied' in this week's Manx Independent.

[manshimajin]

Without Halloween the turnip and pumpkin industry would fall into massive decline and jobs would be lost.

I gather that the turnip at Happloween was an Irish tradition and that the pumpkin was a substitute for this when people emigrated to the USA.

 

A Celtic festival to recognise the end of the Summer and to note the changes in Nature is very OK by me. I think that the way Christians took over other peoples' religious festivals says much about the lack of Christianity in institutionalised Christianity with its lack of care and consideration for views that differed with its own.

 

IMO the worst thing is how commercialised it has become but many religions seem to have days on which the remember the departed.

[Lonan3]

If Spook doesn't like the thought of celebrating what is essentially a pagan (i.e. rural) festival, or one based on a specifically Catholic one - perhaps he could bring him/herself to celebrate it as the anniversary of Martin Luther nailing the 95 Theses to the Door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg on 31st October, 1517.

 

(It is, of course, no more than a legend - he actually sent it to a few bishops and friends who had it published - but, hey! Christianity is 95% legend and 5% history anyway.)