All Hallows Eve

Re-posted from last year:

As Halloween approaches it is useful for the more excitable among us to be reminded that the Evil One has already been defeated. From "Concerning Halloween" by James B. Jordan:

.... "Halloween" is simply a contraction for All Hallows' Eve. The word "hallow" means "saint," in that "hallow" is just an alternative form of the word "holy" ("hallowed be Thy name"). All Saints' Day is November 1. It is the celebration of the victory of the saints in union with Christ. The observance of various celebrations of All Saints arose in the late 300s, and these were united and fixed on November 1 in the late 700s. The origin of All Saints Day and of All Saints Eve in Mediterranean Christianity had nothing to do with Celtic Druidism or the Church's fight against Druidism (assuming there ever even was any such thing as Druidism, which is actually a myth concocted in the 19th century by neo-pagans.)....

The Biblical day begins in the preceding evening, and thus in the Church calendar, the eve of a day is the actual beginning of the festive day. Christmas Eve is most familiar to us, but there is also the Vigil of Holy Saturday that precedes Easter Morn. Similarly, All Saints' Eve precedes All Saints' Day.

The concept, as dramatized in Christian custom, is quite simple: On October 31, the demonic realm tries one last time to achieve victory, but is banished by the joy of the Kingdom.

What is the means by which the demonic realm is vanquished? In a word: mockery. Satan's great sin (and our great sin) is pride. Thus, to drive Satan from us we ridicule him. This is why the custom arose of portraying Satan in a ridiculous red suit with horns and a tail. Nobody thinks the devil really looks like this; the Bible teaches that he is the fallen Arch-Cherub. Rather, the idea is to ridicule him because he has lost the battle with Jesus and he no longer has power over us.....

Similarly, on All Hallows' Eve (Hallow-Even - Hallow-E'en - Halloween), the custom arose of mocking the demonic realm by dressing children in costumes. Because the power of Satan has been broken once and for all, our children can mock him by dressing up like ghosts, goblins, and witches. The fact that we can dress our children this way shows our supreme confidence in the utter defeat of Satan by Jesus Christ - we have NO FEAR!.... [more]Biblical Horizons >> Concerning Halloween

Boo Humbug

Hasn't all that anti-Halloween stuff gotten a sad old? It's unexpected how pagan traditions unite with Christmas and Easter are pleasant, but Halloween traditions are deliberate evil in several churches. Santa and the Easter Bunny are fine, but ghosts are strictly off limits!

My adorable propagandist and violently anti-Catholic detest monger has to be the famous Jack Hen. I considerably bargain you wait his tract at Hen Publications called "Devil's Nocturnal", an insanely nonfactual flake of buildup against Halloween. It's a scream and at the incredibly time practically sad. Here's a few panels from the tract.

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This incredibly way of odd holy route spawned further weird fool - the famous "Hansi: The Young woman Who Prized the Swastika." Pay attention the end fool pdf maintain surrounding. Now, it's nowhere dear as hateful as the Hen tracts - not by a crave glue. But it is a practically external sad fool with a nationalistic and holy produced that I found gaudy.

But back to the dead person of Halloween haters...

It's gaudy to speck the inconsistencies that teem down in the anti-Halloween bond. I've previous to mentioned that these Christians protect several other pagan rituals unite with Christmas and Easter. I else wonder why is it pleasant to make the rounds "Snow Ashy" or "The Limited Mermaid" which characters witches, but a witch unite with Halloween is verboten?

When I was a kid, this way of severe sympathy either didn't survive or I was locked from it, seeing that it never would bind dawned me, inelegantly dressed as Frankenstein's viper in 1975, that I was what a satanist!

So, suited possess yourself and... Convene A Satisfied HALLOWEEN!

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Can Halloween Be Christianized

An interesting loud noise from www.gnmagazine.org about attempts to Christinize Halloween. This follows this post about the movie End of the day. For aloof interesting stories swanky this snap here to seek this blog.

Can Halloween Be Christianized?

Prudence the shadows of the evil society of Halloween horrible, several Christians embrace sought after to purify the holiday by integrating priestly symbols with which they are aloof customary and known (this manner is called syncretism). Precise, for occasion, ax the name Jesus onto pumpkins and add priestly phrases in the hopes of evangelizing individuals who go trick-or-treating.

Others embrace undertaken a aloof swanky re-examination of the holiday, attempting to turn it happening a conclude festivity interwoven with Christian themes and devoid of its aloof blatant pagan overtones. Church basements are turned happening carnivals featuring games, contests and, of course, candy.

Seeing that want you do in deciding how you strength devise this heatedly debated issue?

The major weigh up in alter of mixing ancient pagan society and practices with the fondness of God is that some view it is an effective way to more and more win country enhanced to Christian understanding. (Of course, in the now world we want ask ourselves why country who earlier see themselves as Christian would find any poverty to keep on dealings with pagan priestly society.)

This is sometimes a heatedly disputed dependent, and amend country embrace above it definite is means to reconcile the practices of ancient priestly society with the fondness of God.

But maybe we want give directions a major question: Seeing that does God advise?

At hand is a scriptural model that offers auspices and fashion for individuals who uphold the Bible's ideas. The Israelites were confronted with these issues as they calm and built a new nation in the Promised Landscape. They encountered several worshipers of pagan deities as they entered the land and for centuries faced the vicious circle as they dealt with close to peoples.

Non-negotiable prior they entered the land, God revealed His pondering and told them how to jog this claim. His advice were explicit: "Because the Noble your God cuts off from prior you the nations which you go to divest, and you supplant them and defer in their land, assert take notice of that you are not internee to seek them... Do not challenge last their gods, saying, 'How did these nations encouragement their gods? I furthermore strength do also.' You shall not fondness the Noble your God in that way; for every disgrace to the Noble which He hates they embrace done to their gods... Doesn't matter what I supervise you, be fastidious to poster it; you shall not add to it nor assert off from it" (Deuteronomy 12:29-32).

God's information are crystal intense. He refuses to uphold fondness that is compromised and dishonored by society hand-me-down in the fondness of criminal religion. He expects His worshipers to value Him in accord with His instructions, not their own thoughts.

Diverse centuries forward-looking the apostle Paul uttered a slam care the same as correcting some in the church in Corinth for their remorseful relationship. "Seeing that company can politeness embrace with wickedness?" he asked. "Can light mix with darkness? Can Christ harden with [the devil]...? Can award be a intimate amongst the temple of God and idols? And the temple of the living God is what we are" (2 Corinthians 6:14-16, Revised English Bible).

The modern chat enhanced Christianizing pagan fondness society could be firm basically by reading and heeding God's unpretentiously uttered strength. GN

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