RE: Official Hallowe'en Thread
October 17, 2021 at 9:11 am
(This post was last modified: October 17, 2021 at 9:21 am by Fake Messiah.)
(October 14, 2021 at 5:31 pm)Oldandeasilyconfused Wrote: 'All hallows Eve' has of course been known in the UK and Europe for centuries, but the trick or treat thing hasn't been a thing as fart as I know.. I'll look it up.
Yeah, it seems Halloween is not big in Europe because Catholic Church forbids it.
For example,
Quote:Poland's Catholic Church has warned that modern Halloween rituals risk promoting the occult.
In a statement on its website, the Church said that celebrating Halloween could contradict Church teachings and Christianity.
"This kind of fun, tempting children like candy, also poses the real possibility of great spiritual damage, even destroying spiritual life," the archbishop of Szczecin-Kamien wrote in a letter to be read out at Sunday sermons, according to the Polish Press Agency.
He wrote that "irresponsible and anti-Christian fun" introduced young people to a "world of darkness, including devils, vampires and demons" in the name of "fun".
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-20131808
They are even trying to forbid it/ change it in the USA
Quote:THE Catholic Church has called for Halloween to be scrapped and replaced with "Holyween", a night in which children would attend prayer vigils and dress up as the saints.
The Vatican's first official conference of exorcists has warned of a danger to young people at Halloween, when there is an increase in occult activity.
Father Aldo Buonaiuto, of the International Association of Exorcists, which met in Rome at the weekend, said that a spike in demonic possessions in October is down to the phenomenon of Halloween.
The organisation's emergency number receives hundreds of calls over this period, around 40 a day, especially from parents who fear that their child has been initiated into the occult, he said.
He said: "Many say Halloween is a simple carnival, but in fact there is nothing innocent or fun about it-it is the antechamber to something much more dangerous.
Participating in Halloween is "like an initiation into the occult", he said.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/529...-Halloween
Or take a look at South American countries where Catholic Church is big, they also don't celebrate by masquerading on Halloween but have some proxy in February.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
