Is it true that Halloween is the devil’s holiday?

[Skyros]

[BlueScorpio]

Technically yes, cause if you noticed it's that time of year were a lot of evil things and occultics things are celebrated. If you noticed, there's whole bunch of witches, demons etc. Even micheal myers is one of the most celebrated fictional serial killers that people adore and address up as on holloween. decor put up during that time. And yes there are groups of people who are into the occults that do rituals during that holiday and during the devil hour etc. It was never like that before, it was suppose to represent the saints but somehow it changed to what we have today.

[StrongMale]

Halloween is the modern day version of the ancient Celtic fire festival known as Samhain. In the Druid tradition, Samhain celebrated the dead with a festival on the eve before the new year (based on the stars) and usually featured a bonfire and communion with the dead. Celts believed that on that night, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. And on the night of October 31st, they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. Which is why so much of Halloween is themed around the dead. It is not, therefore, ‘the devil’s holiday’. It descends from an ancient Celtic custom of honoring ancestors who had died.

[jshm2]

Don't be silly. It's known better as Allhalloween, All Hallows' Eve, or even All Saints' Eve in Europe and is a Celtic festival for warding off evil.

But Americans being Muricans take a little bit of culture, misunderstand it, but market it to something completely different.

[dustybiker]

No idea. I would think he’s earned a good time. Someone has to be in control of evil. I assume that is a damn hard job. He deserves a holiday too.

[Jessica405]

Nothing to do with the devil or satanism. It is Samhain, which is a time when the veil between the world of living mankind and our ancestors is at its thinnest. A time when we thank them for making us who we are.

[purplepoppy]

No, Halloween is based on the samhain, a celltic festival and the similar roman Feralia. But pope Gregory III changed it to Halloween.

[Dargil]

Which is "All Hallowed Eve , the night before All Saint's Day.

[BeMuse]

Not this year. Shits all going wrong for him.

[Jacobbbb]

I don't think about Halloween that way I just want the candy ngl

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

I don't know the origin of Halloween but it does glorify the dead and evil so I would think yes.

[Miristheiss]

It is... CANDIES holiday!

[FunkyMonkee]

Only in some peoples' twisted minds.

[rgb008]

no it is my holiday

[Iron_Man]

I don’t think so

[BLP11520]

It should be fun and safe for kids...

[Anonymous]

No, that's pure nonsense.