tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8806658553756358958.post1433048021207319288..comments2024-03-28T08:29:44.207-07:00Comments on Rational Christian Discernment: A Christian Discourse On HalloweenJesse Albrechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01349321905468957335noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8806658553756358958.post-84124929381328799222018-11-09T16:43:50.660-08:002018-11-09T16:43:50.660-08:00There's a wee bit more to the history of Hallo...There's a wee bit more to the history of Halloween, which I'll note in a moment. However, Jesse has it right in that it should be a matter of personal conscience. First, I've never known anyone personally who practiced any occult activities on Halloween, and dressing up like witches or goblins is no different than dressing up as fairies, etc. Too many legalistic people really get into the whole condemnation thing (I find most are KJVOs, which is a legalistic ideology to begin with.). As for the additional history--or, as Paul Harvey would say, the rest of the story--Doug Evans had a good, short history in regards to how Halloween entered the Church:<br /><br />Halloween 2018 is thankfully over, the Roman Catholic created celebration and adoration of all things evil has passed taking Christians with them on their slow spiral into hell. Did I say that the Roman church created Halloween? <br />Halloween exists because of Pope #90 Gregory III. Pope Greg III is known for a few things: aggravating a feud between Italy and the Byzantine empire; the iconoclast controversy (a shining time in Catholic history where paintings and statues became more important than theology), building St. Peters Cathedral (and adorning it with religious icons just to anger the Patriarch of Constantinople the real head of the Catholic church at the time), and outlawing the consumption of horse meat. Pope Greg III moved All Saints Day from May 13 to Nov. 1. Over 100 years later in 844, Pope #101 Gregory IV ordered that it be celebrated everywhere. Because the Catholics demand that a good saint is a dead saint, All Saints Day is a solemn affair as can be seen in it's modern version. In 988 the church added All Souls Day, a day to remind God that His whole judgement idea goes against 2 Maccabees 12:41-46. Now the RCC had a holiday for dead saints and dead sinners in purgatory, how about one for the dead in hell? According to Father Augustine Thompson it became customary to bang pots and pans on All Hallows Even to let the damned know they were not forgotten. Thus, in Ireland at least, all the dead came to be remembered–even if the clergy were not terribly sympathetic to Halloween and never allowed All Damned Day into the church calendar. As with all things that celebrate satan, it spiraled out of control until we have today's celebration of Satan's dominion over the unschooled.<br /><br />See Doug's blog at: http://wideawakechristian.blogspot.com/2018/11/random-bits.htmlGlenn E. Chatfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04117405535707961903noreply@blogger.com