Halloween is NOT a Christian Holiday
Nor a "neutral" one. It's plain satanic.
The Worst Night of The Year
Even from a secular perspective, Halloween is just the absolute worst night of the whole year. It’s a night of depravity, lust, hedonism, and mockery of the divine. It’s a night where men dress up as demons and women dress up in the most revealing possible way. It’s the perfect excuse for degeneracy, sin, and vice.
It’s no coincidence that petty crime rates spike1 during Halloween, and violent crime rates spike even more2. It’s a night devoted to the twisted and demonic, and even if you don’t believe in anything existing beyond the physical realm, it’s a night of debauchery, promiscuity, and excess.
From wherever you look at it, Halloween is just bad. Yes, yes, they sold it to us as “a night for little kids to dress up, have fun, and eat candy”, but if that’s the purpose of this “holiday”, why is it that the entire branding of the thing has to do with the scary, occult, and dark? Why is it that the colors and imagery that surrounds it is related to witches, ghosts, spirits, and demons? These things are never coincidental, and Halloween is one of those things we need to take at face value. What you see plainly is actually what it’s about: paganism, mockery of God, indulgence in vices, covenants with the occult, and satanism.
The History of Halloween
Halloween originates from the Celtic Festival of Samhain, who for the celts was lord of death and evil spirits. At least 2000 years before Christ came to earth, Druids in Britain, Ireland, Scotland, France, Germany and other Celtic countries observed the end of summer by making sacrifices to Samhain.
The Celts considered November 1st as being the day of death because the leaves were falling, it was getting darker sooner and temperatures were dropping. They believed Muck Olla, their sun god was losing strength and Samhain, lord of death, was overpowering him. Further, they believed that on October 31st Samhain assembled the spirits of all who had died during the previous year.
These spirits had been confined to inhabit animals’ bodies for the past year, as punishment for their evil deeds. They were allowed to return to their former home to visit the living on the eve (Oct. 31) of the Feast of Samhain. Druid priests led the people in diabolical worship ceremonies in which horses, cats, black sheep, oxen, human beings and other offerings were rounded up, stuffed into wicker cages and burned to death. This was done to appease Samhain and keep spirits from harming them.
How were these sacrifices obtained? Druid priests and people would go from house to house asking for fatted calves, black sheep, and human beings. Those who gave were promised prosperity and those who refused to give were cursed and threatened. In addition, it was likely that all of the “wandering spirits” would get hungry. If you set out a treat for them, they would not trick or curse you. “Trick or Treat is a reenactment of the Druidic practices. The candy has replaced the human sacrifices of old, but it is still an appeasement of those deceptive evil spirits. The traditional response to those who do not treat is to have a trick played on them. When you give out Halloween candy, you are, in essence providing a sacrifice to false gods. You are participating in idolatry” says the former high priest of Wicca, Tom Sanguinet, who later converted to Christianity3.
What about costumes? They originated with these terrible Druid death rites also. As people and animals were screeching in agony while being burned to death the observers would dress in costumes made of animal skins and heads. They would dance, chant and jump through the flames in hope warding off the evil spirits.
It is obvious that Halloween is a day rooted in the worst kind of pagan rituals and worship. The Bible urges Christians to “Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness” (Ephesians 5:11). Even though Halloween is diluted somewhat there is obviously nothing Christ honoring about the day.
Retrieved from https://truediscipleship.com/the-dark-side-of-halloween/
As the centuries passed, the spread of Christianity began to challenge pagan practices. In the eighth century, Pope Gregory III designated November 1 as a time to honor saints. The evening before All Saints Day became known as All Hallows Eve (the evening before All Saints Day), and later, Halloween. In the 11th century, the Church introduced All Souls Day on November 2nd, a day dedicated to pray for the souls of the dead, especially those in purgatory.
October 31st as a holiday became a confusing day, since it ended up becoming a mixture of both pagan and Christian celebrations. Over time, in the mainstream context, it lost all its relation to Christianity and became a night of “fun”, but maintained the symbology of the early pagan practices.
Links To Satanism
Halloween is an official holiday for satanists, and the most meaningful day of the year for them. Anton Lavey, the founder of the satanic church has even stated that “he’s glad that Christian parents let their children worship the devil at least one night out of the year.”4 Do you think this is just another “meaningless coincidence”?
The roots of this holiday might have links to Christianity, but the reality is that in practice, it’s become perverted to the point that it goes directly against our faith. It’s a gateway to the occult, it’s pagan to the core, and it’s a night of darkness and evil practices. There’s a reason why the satanists hold it in such high regard, and it’s precisely because through its symbology it’s become a night where God is mocked and the devil is worshipped.
How to Celebrate All Hallows Eve Properly
Today should be a day of prayer, contemplation, and adoration. Not a day to party, indulge in sin, and drink until you pass out.
Yes, October 31st is an important day for us Christians, and we should celebrate it, but not like most people do. On the contrary, we ought to do the exact opposite of what the world does today, to help balance all the evil energy that this night holds. All Hallows Eve is our holiday, in preparation for All Saints Day. Not Halloween.
We are to pray incessantly. On October 31st, we are to fast, or keep vigil, accompany Christ, and celebrate sanctity. We are, of course, to avoid partaking in degenerate celebrations. Voluntarily participation in acts and gatherings that clearly attack God is a sin in and of itself.
Choose a Side
You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord's table and the table of demons.
— 1 Corinthians 10:21
I know this might seem extreme to some, but at the end of the day, it’s our soul that’s at stake. This does not mean you should be “afraid” of Halloween, but simply that you should understand that it’s not prudent for a Christian to participate in the mainstream way this day is celebrated.
Don’t conform to the ways of society when it’s so clear that their ways go against your God. Simply avoid partaking in the parties and gatherings that go on today. Choose to spend time with God instead, as was intended.
A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore by their fruits you will know them.
— Matthew 7:18-20
Ask yourself: What are the fruits of Halloween? What do you see when you go out on Halloween? How do people behave? What kind of energy reigns on these gatherings?
Is it light? Is it a celebration of virtue, purity, and sanctity? Or is it darkness and sin?
It’s there, in plain sight, for us to see it. People play it down, claiming it’s “just for fun”, claiming that it’s not seriously about "anything spiritual”. But again, if that is the case, why is it that on this night, the world becomes obsessed with mocking God, engaging in sin, and partaking in rituals with occult symbology?
It’s precisely because symbols matter. Practices matter. These things cannot be played down and ignored. The fruits of Halloween —at least in the way it’s celebrated today— are dark and evil.
Look at the fruit this day bears in its modern conception. That tells you what the nature of the “holiday” is.
Guard your soul and pray for those that are lost today.
God bless you,
Simple Man
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I appreciate this full-throated differentiation between the Christian holiday and what we know today as “Halloween.” I am realizing it’s problematic to say, “Halloween is a Christian holiday” because when I say that, most today will think of trick or treating and costumes. Something I do want to note, though, is that I believe a lot of neo-pagans and Satanists have greatly exaggerated the pagan origins to feed into the myth that the Catholic Church essentially appropriated pagan holidays. That’s something I believed as a young starry-eyed practitioner of Wicca only to discover it was largely unfounded revisionist history when I got older, part of the “Christ myth” claims of the 19th century. But it’s been ages since I looked into to. There’s no doubt that in modern times, the day overtly celebrates the demonic.
This is right on 💯 truth!