Is Halloween worshiping the devil?

No, it has catholic origins.

Halloween Devil Worship

Originally named Samahain by the Irish Celts...Halloween is a time to celebrate and honor the dead. Kind of like honoring your dead ancestors, but today people dress up and costumes to go get candy. That's also another Celtic tradition, it helps to hide from the "evil spirits" that come out on halloween night. It is traditionally a "scary" part of the year but has nothing to do with the devil because it created before the devil even existed in human thoughts and feelings. Honestly, i see no harm in letting kids have fun and be frightened at the same time ;P...

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Is Halloween worshiping the devil?

I have 2 friends who don't Trick-or-Treat because they think Halloween is celebrating the Devil and worshiping Him.

But I'm a solid Catholic Christian and I don't believe that is the case.

Can someone give me the truth about Halloween so I can tell my friends? I've always...

Christian attitudes towards Halloween are quite diverse. In the Anglican Church, some dioceses have chosen to emphasize the Christian traditions of All Saints’ Day, while some other Protestants celebrate the holiday as Reformation Day, a day to remember the Protestant Reformation.

Father Gabriele Amorth, a Vatican-appointed exorcist in Rome, has said, "if English and American children like to dress up as witches and devils on one night of the year that is not a problem. If it is just a game, there is no harm in that."

In more recent years, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston has organized a "Saint Fest" on the holiday. Similarly, many contemporary Protestant churches view Halloween as a fun event for children, holding events in their churches where children and their parents can dress up, play games, and get candy.

Many Christians ascribe no negative significance to Halloween, treating it as a purely secular holiday devoted to celebrating "imaginary spooks" and handing out candy. To these Christians, Halloween holds no threat to the spiritual lives of children: being taught about death and mortality, and the ways of the Celtic ancestors actually being a valuable life lesson and a part of many of their parishioners' heritage.

In the Roman Catholic Church, Halloween is viewed as having a Christian connection, and Halloween celebrations are common in Catholic parochial schools throughout North America and in Ireland.

Other Christians feel concerned about Halloween, and reject the holiday because they feel it trivializes - or celebrates - paganism, the occult, or other practices and cultural phenomena deemed incompatible with their beliefs. A response among some fundamentalist and conservative evangelical churches in recent years has been the use of 'Hell houses', themed pamphlets, or comic-style tracts such as those created by Jack T. Chick in order to make use of Halloween's popularity as an opportunity for evangelism.

Some consider Halloween to be completely incompatible with the Christian faith because of its origin as a pagan "Festival of the Dead". For example, Jehovah's Witnesses do not celebrate Halloween because they believe anything that originated from a pagan holiday should not be celebrated by true Christians.

If Halloween is worshipping the devil, that's like saying, "Hey, if you eat that candy... you're going to hell."

I think it's just a fun festivity giving people a chance to dress up and get candy :]

I was Blues Clues when I was a little kid, for halloween. Is THAT related to the Devil? Well... maybe the host of Blues Clues is ;) BUT ANYWAYS.

It's just a fun celebration! Enjoy it!! :]

Wikipedia 'Halloween' or something :P

It is about what you make it about? Ask your friends what Christmas is about. If they say Christ, ask them what it started out about. Tell them TOYS! Halloween is just another day to show the world that HIS light shines in you even on the darkest day of the year! Christians should NOT sit on their hands on Halloween! Throw a Halloween party that is pure, do a Trunk-or-Treat with theme and a bible verse related to that theme, kids go out with kids and act like Christians among your peers! Halloween is no different from any other day, go out into the world and show them you are not of the world buy BEING CHRIST LIKE! People cant see your not of the world if you are sitting in the house!

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Halloween is a festival that the church "borrowed" as all souls day from the pagan Samhain, Samhain (pronounced Sow-en), dates back to the ancient Celts who lived 2,000 years ago. Contrary to what some believe, is not a celebration of a Celtic god of the dead. Instead, it is a Celtic word meaning "summer's end." The Celts believed that summer came to an end on October 31st and the New Year began on November 1st with the start of winter. But the Celts also followed a lunar calendar and their celebrations began at sunset the night before. Many today see Halloween as the pagan holiday. But that's not really accurate. As the pagan holiday of Samhain is on November 1st. But their celebrations did and still do, start at sunset on October 31st, on Samhain Eve. During the day on October 31st, the fires within the home are extinguished. Often families would engage in a good "fall" cleaning to clear out the old and make way for the new. Starting the winter months with fresh and clean household items. At sunset on October 31, clans or local villages begin the formal ceremonies of Samhain by lighting a giant bonfire. The people would gather around the fire to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities. It was a method of giving the Gods and Goddesses their share of the previous years herd or crops. In addition these sacred fires were a big part of the cleansing of the old year and a method to prepare for the coming new year. Many pagan customs were adopted by the church as follows: Wedding rings were and are a pagan custom, and there is no biblical command for them, but we use them in church-sanctioned ceremonies. Wedding ceremonies themselves were also a pagan custom, and are not commanded in Scripture. Funerals include pagan customs, too, based on erroneous ideas about the afterlife. Scripture says nothing about putting flowers on graves, etc. Egyptian mythology said that the dead should be embalmed, and Joseph participated in this custom (Gen. 50:2-3) despite its pagan origin. Pagans created statues — of animals and people, both life-size and miniatures. They had statues in their flower gardens and statues in their homes. But statues have lost their "pagan" connotations because people do not believe in such gods and goddesses anymore. Money has pagan designs on it. Some U.S. coins used to have the goddess "Liberty" on them. Dollar bills have an eye over a pyramid. Pagans assigned days of the week to different gods, and we still use these names. However the church in trying to "take over" from the existing pagan religion "politicised" some of the festivals and introduced the idea of the devil, based on the "horned god, Cernunnos" . Look at early "old masters" pictures and you will see christ with horns - later changed to a halo. You will also note the "lady chapel" and "Mary" as a nod to the pre-christian moon goddess. So NO ITS NOT DEVIL WORSHIP>

I hate it how people think it's worshiping the Devil.

As a kid, my grandma always told me that people used to dress up in costumes and masks to scare away the spirits.

Yes it is! Watch this video about a former Satanist and what he says about Halloween... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w-HEFQh5qow

Afraid to trick or treat?

http://www.trueghosttales.com/history-halloween.ph...

as you can see it is just a celebration, not a satanic holiday