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Your Most/Least Favorite Holidays
One of my least favorite of all holidays is Halloween. Why celebrate fallen angels and demons? Favorites: Independence Day (freedom, liberty), Thanksgiving (national gratitude) and Christmas (childhood whimsey and family values) in that order. The risen Christ and His efficacious substitutionary spiritual death on our behalf we are to keep in remembrance and reflect on each day of the year... not mechanically give a genuflex on bunny rabbit day or a nod to God late December in the hopes of good luck in the new year. New Year's Eve is also a pitiful farce. See it once again for the first time... one winter weekend set aside for people trying desperately to be happy in their collective misery and then resolve to live with commonsense and integrity in the new year.
What are your most and least favorite holidays?
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Originally posted by Grampy BobbySome of my best friends are fallen angels and demons. Aside from that, I don't evaluate holidays.. I just enjoy them.
[b]Your Most/Least Favorite Holidays
One of my least favorite of all holidays is Halloween. Why celebrate fallen angels and demons? Favorites: Independence Day (freedom, liberty), Thanksgiving (national gratitude) and Christmas (childhood whimsey and family values) in that order. The risen Christ and His efficacious substitutionary spiritual deat ...[text shortened]... h commonsense and integrity in the new year.
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Originally posted by Grampy BobbyMy kid loves Halloween better than any other holiday by far. He'll be 6 soon.
[b]Your Most/Least Favorite Holidays
One of my least favorite of all holidays is Halloween. Why celebrate fallen angels and demons? Favorites: Independence Day (freedom, liberty), Thanksgiving (national gratitude) and Christmas (childhood whimsey and family values) in that order. The risen Christ and His efficacious substitutionary spiritual de ...[text shortened]... monsense and integrity in the new year.
What are your most and least favorite holidays?
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Dressing up, going out at night to hunt for candy,making pumkin heads,decorations,etc. , they love this stuff because there is so much room for imagination.
I have to say, other than birthdays, I like Halloween better than Xmas,Easter or New Years Eve, even though celebrations for Halloween have weened in the past only to have a resurgence in the last couple of years.
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Originally posted by SilverstrikerOf course, Striker. It has to be, as would any holiday observance premised on the fiction
Halloween is much more creative than xmas and easter in the minds of the young generation.
Also for adults, halloween movies are much more memorable thanks to the horror gene.
My favourite holidays are the summer holidays 😀
of unquestioning worship of evil and dead souls sitting in dark corners of purgatory.
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Originally posted by Grampy BobbyYou seem to have a completely wrong idea about Halloween. It originated as a pagan ritual to frighten off the approaching demons of darkness with bonfires and loud noises. The Christian crap about souls etc. came about when Christians attempted to hijack the festival ( the same as they did with Easter and Christmas ).
[b]Your Most/Least Favorite Holidays
One of my least favorite of all holidays is Halloween. Why celebrate fallen angels and demons? Favorites: Independence Day (freedom, liberty), Thanksgiving (national gratitude) and Christmas (childhood whimsey and family values) in that order. The risen Christ and His efficacious substitutionary spiritual de ...[text shortened]... monsense and integrity in the new year.
What are your most and least favorite holidays?
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Originally posted by ayceebeeThe Christians hijacked Easter and Christmas???
You seem to have a completely wrong idea about Halloween. It originated as a pagan ritual to frighten off the approaching demons of darkness with bonfires and loud noises. The Christian crap about souls etc. came about when Christians attempted to hijack the festival ( the same as they did with Easter and Christmas ).
Oh, please do explain this one for me.
Originally posted by shortcircuitEaster is the ancient Pagan Spring Solstice festival ( Eostre ). Christmas is the ancient Pagan Winter Solstice festival. Given the information available concerning the birth of Christ, there is absolutely no chance he was born in December.
The Christians hijacked Easter and Christmas???
Oh, please do explain this one for me.
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyIn the Roman Catholic Church, Halloween is viewed as having a Christian connection, and Halloween celebrations are common in Catholic parochial schools throughout North America and in Ireland.
Of course, Striker. It has to be, as would any holiday observance premised on the fiction
of unquestioning worship of evil and dead souls sitting in dark corners of purgatory.
gb
Never seen the link between all saints day (novemeber 1st) and halloween (october 31st)
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Originally posted by ayceebeeNo, it isn't. Look beyond the name your language gave to it, to the real origin. In most other languages, its name is derived, as is the feast, from the Jewish Pesach. Your so-called theoretical (I've never seen any evidence for it actually being celebrated before the 1960s) "Feast of Eostre" has nothing to do with it, except in the minds of faux-pagans.
Easter is the ancient Pagan Spring Solstice festival ( Eostre ).
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Originally posted by Shallow BlueMy previous post came from memory, but since you questioned it, I did some research. The Pagan Eoster Festival pre-dates the Jewish Passover by a considerable number of years...also Pesach sounds nothing like Easter!! It was the sneaky habit of Christian missionaries to harmonise their celebrations with local customs, but given the strokes they've pulled over the centuries, this one counts as minor.
No, it isn't. Look beyond the name your language gave to it, to the real origin. In most other languages, its name is derived, as is the feast, from the Jewish Pesach. Your so-called theoretical (I've never seen any evidence for it actually being celebrated before the 1960s) "Feast of Eostre" has nothing to do with it, except in the minds of faux-pagans.
Richard