Why do WE as Christians NOT celebrate Halloween?
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Please be fake. And if you're not, please, please, please, go outside when it's raining, look up and open your mouth.
Wait there till you drown yourself.
I don't think this is particularly fundie. Ignorant, maybe, but she seems to be genuinely curious. That's something to always promote, curiosity.
Halloween actually began as an ancient Celtic harvest holiday of Samhain , and was not Christian. All Saint's Day, from which the modern name Halloween derives from, as Old Viking indicated, was added later, like most christian holidays, to attract the pagans. Modern Halloween is just a fun holiday that has little to do its original meaning.
Why do (some) christians not celebrate it? Same reason they don't read Harry Potter or listen to rock music: ignorance and superstition.
Are you absolutely incapable of doing any personal research?
It is the Celtic New Year and its origins are lost in the mists of time. Don't ask what Celtic is. Research it.
If it helps you, I'm a Celt and I speak a Celtic language. No, idiot, not English. English is Germanic.
Off you trot like a good little Christian and don't come back until you find out a little about other cultures and the respect they deserve - assuming you are expecting some respect for yourself and what you hold dear.
BTW, Jewboy is quite right. It's called Samhain. (That is NOT said as Sam Hane! It's more like Sah-win).
Tracer nailed it. Christians have been so pissed they can't Christianize it.
Hell, look at all the familiar Christmas traditions, they're celtic/nordic pratices as well. Christ enters less peoples Christmas than Christians realize But they hate holloween because they can't put their mark on it
Cinco de effing Mayo is NOT Day of the Dead! That's Dia de los Muertos.
And you do not speak for all Christians. Most I knew (and this is a pretty heavily Christian area) celebrated Halloween.
Oh, and it's a Catholic holiday, too - all Hallows' Eve (Halloween is a mispronounced version of that). And YES, Catholics ARE Christian.
Hello, Christian who celebrates Halloween right here.
Guess you don't know all, eh Stupid?
"It's a Christian holiday with a large admixture of pagan symbolism (you stole it from them anyway)and good old American capitalism."
Are we already talking about Christmas....oh Halloween! Sorry I should pay more attenetion.
You know, i have never been trick or treating a day in my life... well a Halloween in my life - but at church we always had some kind of function to compensate for that...
Circle jerks really don't count as a Halloween replacement.
To be fair, would this person be any more "educated, knowledgeable and sophisticated" of other cultures if she weren't a Christian? It's a matter of education, not religion.
Oh, and thanks to Angel Kaida for the comment on adding editorials; I think most of us can "get it" from the quote ourselves.
Cinco do Mayo is the day Mexico rid themselves
It's "Dia de los Muertos," not "Cinco de mayo."
dia = Day
de = Of
los muertos = the dead
cinco = 5
mayo = May
I mean come on, even if you've never had a single Spanish class, you should at least be able to recognize that cinco = 5, and that therefore "cinco de Mayo" cannot possibly translate to something that doesn't have the number 5 in it.
Plenty o' stupid, this time with cinnamon flavor.
Here, have a jawbreaker. It tastes like granite!
“Why do WE as Christians NOT celebrate Halloween?”
“You know, i have never been trick or treating a day in my life...”
“well a Halloween in my life - but at church we always had some kind of function to compensate for that...”
" Why do we as christians not celebrate Halloween?”
“What is the meaning of the holiday?”
“I mean cinco de Mayo is the day of the dead.. what exactly is Halloween?”
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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