discussion Do modern Christians know Halloween is actually a Christan Holiday?

[Armani?]

@Communion

Cake instead of candy, someone may need to bring this back 

[DamianSolo]

15 hours ago, Folklore89sm said:

Halloween started as an ancient pagan Celtic festival in Ireland called Samhain (pronounced Sa-win). It was October 31 each year and it was the last night of their calendar year. They believed that on the night of Samhain, the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead was thinner, and spirits - both good and evil - could cross over. Bonfires were lit to warn off the dark spirits and welcome in the good, and costumes were worn to scare off the bad ones. Samhain was also celebrated as it marked the end of the harvest and was the last holiday before the beginning of the cold, harsh winter season began, when the chance of not surviving the cold months was high.

 

As Christianity spread, the leaders in Ireland had originally had the Christian ‘All Hallows Eve ’ equivalent holiday in May, but moved it to October 31 to coincide with the pre-existing, thematically similar holiday (likely to draw in more members of the faith). 
 

All Hallow’s Eve then was eventually shortened to Halloween, which was spread to America and the rest of the world mostly when the Irish immigrants travelled to escape the famine.

 

edit: I’m an irish catholic and here at least, Halloween and All Saints Day/All Souls’ Day (November 1 and 2) don’t really overlap.

Seeing intelligence just warms my heart.

But, no, as a Christian myself—many just don't have as much of a clue about life as they think they do. The amount of bigoted Christians just says it all. And the very evident and brazen hypocrisy is a dark cloud that looms over them, that they somehow mistake as a rainbow of favor.

[Bencharmer]

All Saints' Day is a Christian Day.

Halloween is a folk day (like May Day)

[Maroonx]

90% of Americans who claim they are christian never even opened a Bible, let alone know this. 

[John Slayne]

Christians don't care about facts, all they care about is pretending to be offended so they can exert their control over our freedom.