Did you know Halloween is an evil celebration?
371276
Yes, yes I do know that, that is why I do not celebrate it.  It has an atrociously dark and fiendish history, and ought to be abolished.  Down with Halloween!
796976
People unfortunately do this all the time. I'm of the opinion that people are too lazy to clean up the old decorations, while at the same time being uncomfortably excited about the new ones. On my block I saw (I really wish I was making this up) a decomposing pumpkin,and a giant blow up turkey right next to a light up Santa.
957133
That's not a question. If this is about it being pagan then stop worrying since Halloween is just as much inspired by All Saints Day Eve, a Christian holiday, as it is by Samhein. No that's not coincedence it's the same story as Yule and Christmas, Christianity's attempt to overshadow other religion's holidays. I celebrate both since it's basically multiple religions that try to out do each other until only secularity overcomes both.
729261
Wicca is definitely not evil.  It is not about cursing others or selling our souls to Satan (an entity which does not exist), or drinking kitten blood on Halloween to celebrate demons walking the earth.  It is about respecting nature, revering the Goddess and God, and respecting and using the energies around us for our own betterment and the betterment of those that we love - so long as it does not harm another.\n\nVery frustrating that people see me wearing a pentacle and their first question is, "Oh, so you worship Satan?"\n\nBlessed be!\n)O(
761189
they act like EVIL .. ROCKS!
682530
definitely. its to discourage people from being evil.
1159916
yes, there are evil entities out there , that can possess your \nbody, your will and your mind. There are also really exorcists out \nthere that have driven these bad elements from people and their \nhomes. I know of a catholic priest who has performed these rites\nand have helped the poor people that were bothered by them.
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Good questions!\n\nBut do you know how many Christian holidays are based on Pagan holidays?   It was a transition to get people away from Paganism to Christianity.\n\nI've celebrated Halloween all my life.  Some "Christians" are now transitioning it to "Fall Festival" but it's the same thing/same night/same concept:  Dressing up in costumes and asking for Candy.\n\nIf my child threw all our eggs out into the yard on any day except Easter, I'd be mad...but it's a tradition.  If I was pinched any day except for St. Patrick's day, I'd be mad.  \n\nI have no problem with Halloween.  I know what's in my heart.
424066
I think it should be. It's kinda like a national holiday in California. Everyone is in action on Halloween.
932969
Many Christians reject Halloween celebrations, since these tend to glorify Satan and the occult. Frankly, Halloween traditions seem to be the opposite of godliness and Christianity.\n\nHolidays such as Halloween derive from false religion, and so are incompatible with pure worship, since they work to adulterate true religion. For example, Easter derives from the pagan god Oestre and celebrates "rebirth" and "fertility" instead of commemorating Christ's Last Supper and death as Jesus commanded:\n\n(Luke 22:1-22) [Jesus] dispatched Peter and John, saying: “Go and get the passover ready for us to eat.” ...14 At length when the hour came, he reclined at the table, and the apostles with him. 15 And he said to them: “I have greatly desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer; 16 for I tell you, I will not eat it again until it becomes fulfilled in the kingdom of God.” ... Keep doing this in remembrance of me.”\n\nSince such celebrations are not required in true worship, and can easily become a distraction, so Jehovah's Witnesses focus their attention elsewhere. In particular, they are focussed on the preaching work which *IS* a requirement for Christians:\n\n(Luke 10:1-17) [Jesus] the Lord designated seventy others and sent them forth by twos in advance of him into every city and place to which he himself was going to come. 2 Then he began to say to them: “The harvest, indeed, is great, but the workers are few. Therefore beg the Master of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest.\n\nLearn more:\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20050101a/article_01.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20001215/article_01.htm
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This web page should give you all the details :\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween\nIncidentally, Yahoo! is also celebrating Halloween :\nhttp://events.yahoo.com/halloween06/\nEnjoy !
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That depends entirely upon what type of answer you are looking for. For many people in the United States, it is just a holiday for people to buy candy and distribute it to the children who dress up as their favorite ghoul, hero or otherwise.\n\nFor others, it is known as All Hallow's Eve. This is a day in which supernatural energies are at their most and sightings of demons, ghosts and other supernatural beings increase. Spells cast upon this day are supposed to never fail as long as the heart of the one casting it has intentions of good.\n\nIt also started as a way to keep demons out in another country. People would put treats onto their doorsteps to ward off the demons and those that did not offer the treats would be subject to the tricks of the demon. Trick or treat....
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What I hate worse than people who point out obvious things--which you can always choose to ignore or grunt at, is people who ask stupid questions.\n\nHalloween was on a Tuesday this year, so a bunch of my friends and I all celebrated the Sunday night prior.  We all walked into a restaurant, dressed as pirates, and had people asking us all night, "Oh, wow, are those Halloween costumes?".\n\nThus requiring us to answer, and bite back our sarcastic "Oh, holy--I completely forgot Halloween was coming up!  What do you think we should dress up as?" and instead smiling and saying yes.\n\nHalloween is only one night a year, though.  I think I would hate it more if I was missing an arm...I might wish I'd kept it, so I could beat people over the head with it.
438113
well being a person who ran several haunted houses, must agree that some parents have the right to worry. at first thought that Halloween was nomething to sweat. could never understand the big deal.now I look at it defirrent. but it is a time where we want to openly celebrate evil. is not every haunted house scene some sort of evil brought to life? dungeons ,dracula satan frankenstein blood ever where? should we not want to bring children up on a righteous path? personally never was comfortable allowing kids going through haunted houses. even (did not seem to mind taking their money) running the haunted houses. we would do a Saturday or Sunday afternoon opening and tone it down.
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Halloween\nFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\n\nThis article is about the holiday. For other uses, see Halloween (disambiguation). \nHalloween \n \nA jack-o'-lantern \n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n \nAlso called Hallowe'en, All Hallows Eve, All Saints' Eve, Samhain, Spooky Day, Snap-Apple Night \nObserved by Many Western nations, including the USA, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, England, Canada, sometimes Australia and New Zealand \nType Pagan, Religious, Cultural (celebrated mostly irrespective of religion) \nSignificance There are many sources of the significance of Halloween \nDate October 31 \nCelebrations Trick-or-treating, Bobbing for apples, Costume parties, Carving jack-o'-lanterns \nHalloween is a tradition celebrated on the night of October 31, most notably by children dressing in costumes and going door-to-door collecting sweets, fruit, and other treats. Apart from this trick-or-treating, there are many other traditional Halloween activities. Some of these include costume parties, watching horror films, going to "haunted" houses, and traditional autumn activities such as hayrides, some of these even "haunted". A more complete coverage of Hallowen customs can be found at Halloween traditions.\n\nHalloween originated as a Pagan festival among the Celts of Ireland and Great Britain with Irish, Scots, Welsh and other immigrants transporting versions of the tradition to North America in the 19th century. Most other Western countries have embraced Halloween as a part of American pop culture in the late 20th century.\n\nHalloween is celebrated in most parts of the Western world, most commonly in the United States, Canada, the UK, Ireland, and with increasing popularity in Australia and New Zealand, as well as the Philippines. In recent years, Halloween has also been celebrated in parts of Western Europe, such as Belgium, France and Spain.\n\nThe term Halloween, and its older spelling Hallowe'en, is shortened from All-hallow-even, as it is the evening before "All Hallows' Day"[1] (also known as "All Saints' Day"). The holiday was a day of religious festivities in various northern European Pagan traditions, until Popes Gregory III and Gregory IV moved the old Christian feast of All Saints Day from May 13 to November 1. In Ireland, the name was All Hallows' Eve (often shortened to Hallow Eve), and though seldom used today, it is still a well-accepted label. The festival is also known as Samhain or Oíche Shamhna to the Irish, Calan Gaeaf to the Welsh, Allantide to the Cornish and Hop-tu-Naa to the Manx. Halloween is also called Pooky Night in some parts of Ireland, presumably named after the púca, a mischievous spirit.\n\nMany European cultural traditions hold that Halloween is one of the liminal times of the year when spirits can make contact with the physical world and when magic is most potent (e.g. Catalan mythology about witches, Irish tales of the Sídhe).
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I knew most of it, except for the part about Halloween being Satan's birthday, Halloween was created in Mexico but called "The day of the dead" a day made for everyone who had lost a family member that year, to bake them the foods that they had enjoyed the most, and to help guide them to heaven, because, before that day, they had all stayed there on earth waiting for this day to come, the celebration lasts for about a month, but latley been cut down to only a week. They make a kinda of cookie bread thing called "Spirit Cookies" and the families would go around getting them, but, if they were denied the cookies, they would play tricks on that family, Here, in America, we have just changed it up a little bit, now they give out candy, and people dress up like dead people, instead of baking goods for dead people, and now is not a time for remembrance, but a time for celebration. Halloween is not satan's birthday. Also Satan was not mentioned in the bible until just a few hundred years ago, after Halloween was created.
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What's wrong with you? Thanksgiving is a commemoration of the first successful harvest of the Mayflower Pilgrims in New England. If you knew anything at all, you would know that they travelled to the New World to escape religious intolerance in England. But still you ask how we celebrate Thanksgiving here in the UK. The USA and UK may have the same language, but that does not mean that they will necessarily have the same traditions.\n\nThe nearest thing we have to the USA's Thanksgiving is Harvest Festival celebrated in churches, and usually in September. See this website for more details: http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/Harvest.html\n\nHalloween was hardly celebrated in the UK before the 1980s. There were some kids' parties, with children dressed as witches, and apple bobbing. Swedes (Swedish turnips) were used for making lantern faces illuminated by a candle. Some older kids would remove garden gates from their hinges, and hide them - all trick and no treat. And that was about it.\n\nThe reason for that is that the UK has a more established celebration on November 5th - Guy Fawkes Night (aka Bonfire Night or Fireworks Night). See this website for further information: http://www.bonefire.org/guy/ . Furthermore children used to collect money in the street - see the "Penny for the guy" tradition as outlined in this webpage:  http://homepages.tesco.net/~derek.berger/holidays/guyfawkes.html\n\nHowever things changed in the 1980s following the release of the films E.T. and Halloween. As a result of the 1982 film, E.T., (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083866/) more children began dressing up in spooky costumes and knocking on doors for sweets. A consequence of the 1978 film, Halloween (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077651/), was that a public demand for pumpkins was created, and they are now used for making lantern faces. Adults also have costumed Halloween parties. Nowadays Halloween here is no different from the USA.\n\nI hope this answers your query.