On October 31, 2022, millions of people celebrate Halloween. One could read the history of Halloween from sources such as https://www.history.com/topics/halloween/history-of-halloween#:~:text=The%20tradition%20originated%20with%20the,of%20the%20traditions%20of%20Samhain from which the following is summarized:
Celts, who celebrated their new year on November 1, believed that on the night before the New Year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. On the night of October 31 they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. Druids built huge sacred bonfires, where the people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities. During the celebration, the Celts wore costumes, typically consisting of animal heads and skins, and attempted to tell each other’s fortunes.By A.D. 43, the Roman Empire had conquered the majority of Celtic territory. In the course of the 400 years that they ruled the Celtic lands, two festivals of Roman origin were combined with the traditional Celtic celebration of Samhain. The first was Feralia, a day in late October when the Romans traditionally commemorated the passing of the dead. The second was a day to honor Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit and trees. The symbol of Pomona is the apple, and the incorporation of this celebration into Samhain probably explains the tradition of bobbing for apples that is practiced today on Halloween.
On May 13, A.D. 609, Pope Boniface IV dedicated the Pantheon in Rome in honor of all Christian martyrs, and the Catholic feast of All Martyrs Day was established in the Western church. Pope Gregory III later expanded the festival to include all saints as well as all martyrs, and moved the observance from May 13 to November 1. By the 9th century, the influence of Christianity had spread into Celtic lands, where it gradually blended with and supplanted older Celtic rites. In A.D. 1000, the church made November 2 All Souls’ Day, a day to honor the dead. It’s widely believed today that the church was attempting to replace the Celtic festival of the dead with a related, church-sanctioned holiday. All Souls’ Day was celebrated similarly to Samhain, with big bonfires, parades and dressing up in costumes as saints, angels and devils. The All Saints’ Day celebration was also called All-hallows or All-hallowmas (from Middle English Alholowmesse meaning All Saints’ Day) and the night before it, the traditional night of Samhain in the Celtic religion, began to be called All-Hallows Eve and, eventually, Halloween.
The celebration of Halloween was extremely limited in colonial New England because of the rigid Protestant belief systems there. Halloween was much more common in Maryland and the southern colonies. One can see from this brief summary that Halloween’s (and all saints day) origin is from the pagan feasts which became one of the holidays (holy days) adopted by the Catholic Church. The truth of the matter is that there is nothing holy about the day. Further, that is the most wicked, evil, devilish, ungodly, immoral of all the pagan holidays that were adopted by the Catholic Church. When one considers all the pagan holidays (holy days) which were adopted by Catholic Church, such as Christmas, Easter, Valentine’s Day, etc., one may find some virtue in them. For example, Christmas and Easter speak concerning Jesus. St. Valentine’s references love. All souls day honors saints, a person acknowledged as holy or virtuous. However, there is not one virtuous or moral element associated with Halloween. Halloween as documented above deals solely with the occult, devils, the worship of the dead, tricks, animal sacrifices, ghosts, witchcraft, frightening, suffering, the grotesque, and vandalism. This is the ideology, practice that inundate the minds of the populace, especially the young. Evil is glorified. This ideology and practice totally misrepresents the character of God, the God of the living. But worst, it degrades the human race (man). God made man in His image, upright possessing the divine character of God. God made man to be kings and queens, princes and prince, to reign with Him on His throne, the highest calling of all His creation. Halloween inculcates, fills man’s mind with the thought or desire to be something else other than what God created man to be. Further, men are lead to imagine themselves to be something else other than God created them to be. Men imagine themselves as being all manner of evil imaginable from ghosts, devils, pirates, serial killers, harlots, and worse. Worst of all, this mindset is inculcated in the minds of innocent children, as they participate, observe all manner of vice associated with the “day’s celebration.” Then we wonder why or how children get the idea that they are transgender. Let us remember the day October 31; the day in 1517 that the priest and scholar Martin Luther approaches the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, and nails a piece of paper to it containing the 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant Reformation (which event history.com calls a legend). Let us education the people concerning the protestant reformation which freed the people from the gross darkness of the middle ages (1260 years) and originated a movement by which we possess the liberties which we enjoy today, freedom of conscience and right to worship God according to the dictates of one’s conscience. Further, may our lives be a witness of God’s divine nature, the purpose which God made man. God be with you toward this end. Happy October 31 Day.