Does Halloween has to do with the satan?

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My co-workers, and my boss were talking about Halloween. Knowing that my boss is very religous. I asked her did she use to trick or treat when she was a kid and she stated she did but she didn;t know nay better until she found out it’s very satanic. IS that true? My mom is religous but she is CAtholic.
 
Halloween or “All Hallows Eve” is about Saints, and praying for the dead. There’s nothing satanic about it. The whole “trick or treat” thing isn’t satanic either IMO, but I don’t think the emphasis on ghosts, vampires, and other things like that is healthy.
 
Some Wiccans celebrate a holiday known as “Samhain” which occurs on October 31, the same day as Halloween.
Wikipedia:
Samhain is one of the eight annual festivals, often referred to as ‘Sabbats’, observed as part of the Wiccan Wheel of the Year. It is considered by most Wiccans to be the most important of the four ‘greater Sabbats’. It is generally observed on October 31 in the Northern Hemisphere, starting at sundown. Samhain is considered by some Wiccans as a time to celebrate the lives of those who have passed on, and it often involves paying respect to ancestors, family members, elders of the faith, friends, pets and other loved ones who have died.** In some rituals the spirits of the departed are invited to attend the festivities. It is seen as a festival of darkness, **which is balanced at the opposite point of the wheel by the spring festival of Beltane, which Wiccans celebrate as a festival of light and fertility.
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Emphasis in bold mine.

So yeah, some do use the holiday for evil rituals and such. One should note that any spirits that do “attend” these festivities are actually demons. The souls of the departed either go to Heaven, Hell, or Purgatory upon death.

Also, I know that some do not consider Wikipedia to be an accurate encyclopedia but you can verify any of this information by going to Wiccan sites. I refuse to link to any of their sites though because I do not wish to link to anything related to the Occult.
 
Every October Scott P. Richert has some piece about Halloween in his About.com:Catholicism blog.

Here’s part of what he has to say this year.
See Should Catholics Celebrate Halloween? for the whole article.
Lost in the debate is the history of Halloween, which, far from being a pagan religious event, is actually a Christian celebration that’s almost 1,300 years old.
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“Halloween” is a name that means nothing by itself. It is a contraction of “All Hallows Eve,” and it designates the vigil of All Hallows Day, more commonly known today as All Saints Day. (“Hallow,” as a noun, is an old English word for saint. As a verb, it means to make something holy or to honor it as holy.)
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Despite concerns among some Catholics and other Christians in recent years about the “pagan origins” of Halloween, there really are none. The first attempts to show some connection between the vigil of All Saints and the Celtic harvest festival of Samhain came over a thousand years after All Saints Day became a universal feast, and there’s no evidence whatsoever that Gregory III or Gregory IV was even aware of Samhain.
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Halloween is no more Satanic than Christmas Eve. It is not Satan and his imps we should be thinking about. Instead it is a day to prepare ourselves for the Feast of All Saints. (I believe that in the United States All Saints is a holy day of obligation. Not so here in Canada though.)

On a related note: How many of us are planning on going to Mass on Monday November 1st??
 
It’s been a problem all my life. Halloween is my birthday. Well, I like pumpkins and food made from pumpkins. I absolutely despise the emphasis on creepy, horrible images, costumes and movies that come out around this time.
Maybe it’s a challenge of some sort. 🤷
 
RosalieM said:
It’s been a problem all my life. Halloween is my birthday. Well, I like pumpkins and food made from pumpkins. I absolutely despise the emphasis on creepy, horrible images, costumes and movies that come out around this time.
Maybe it’s a challenge of some sort. 🤷
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Happy birthday in advance!
 
The_Reginator said:
Every October Scott P. Richert has some piece about Halloween in his About.com:Catholicism blog.

Here’s part of what he has to say this year.
See Should Catholics Celebrate Halloween? for the whole article.

Halloween is no more Satanic than Christmas Eve. It is not Satan and his imps we should be thinking about. Instead it is a day to prepare ourselves for the Feast of All Saints. (I believe that in the United States All Saints is a holy day of obligation. Not so here in Canada though.)

On a related note: How many of us are planning on going to Mass on Monday November 1st??
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I checked out that link you posted. I was reading it when I came across an oddly familiar line:
Christians believed that, at certain times of the year (Christmas is another), the veil separating earth from Purgatory, heaven, and even hell becomes more thin, and the souls in Purgatory (ghosts) and demons can be more readily seen. Thus the tradition of Halloween costumes owes as much, if not more, to Christian belief as to Celtic tradition.
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I say the above quotation (from the site) was familiar because I had once read a similar thing about the origins of Samhain, according to wikipedia:
The Gaels believed that the border between this world and the otherworld became thin on Samhain; because some animals and plants were dying, it thus allowed the dead to reach back through the veil that separated them from the living.
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I find the connections between the two highly interesting.
 
Alexander_Smith said:
Halloween or “All Hallows Eve” is about Saints, and praying for the dead. There’s nothing satanic about it. The whole “trick or treat” thing isn’t satanic either IMO, but I don’t think the emphasis on ghosts, vampires, and other things like that is healthy.
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I agree. Anything of the sort distracts our children from the Catholic all Souls/All Saints days.
 
RosalieM said:
It’s been a problem all my life. Halloween is my birthday. Well, I like pumpkins and food made from pumpkins. I absolutely despise the emphasis on creepy, horrible images, costumes and movies that come out around this time.
Maybe it’s a challenge of some sort. 🤷
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My wife also is a Halloween baby, born in 66 and 6 pm. (Okay, I make that last one up). She too can’t stand the spooky stuff, at least too much. My son and I have to temper ourselves.
 
I think that a lot of the horror-movie-worship on Halloween is cool, if misguided.
 
What about “haunted house” attractions? Here in KC, a studio sets those up in old vacant office buildings downtown. Two of them I know are titled “the beast” and “the edge of hell”. I went to one of those last year, and it was kinda fun. Do those count as sacreligious?
 
JackVk said:
What about “haunted house” attractions? Here in KC, a studio sets those up in old vacant office buildings downtown. Two of them I know are titled “the beast” and “the edge of hell”. I went to one of those last year, and it was kinda fun. Do those count as sacreligious?
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Those sound like more along the lines of Dante’s Inferno or Paradise Lost to be honest. :\
 
I found this info on Scott P. Richert’s “About Catholicism” blog both relevant and interesting:
Is Halloween anti-Christian? The quick answer is no. The long answer (which I discuss in “Should Catholics Celebrate Halloween?”) is that, despite the claims of many non-Christians and an increasing number of Christians that Halloween is a “pagan holiday,” it really has no pagan origins.
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Halloween is the vigil or eve of All Saints’ Day, a Christian feast to honor all the saints who have passed from this life and are in Heaven. The feast and thus the vigil were instituted in the early eighth century, and it would be over a thousand years later before anyone tried to claim some connection between Halloween and the Celtic harvest festival of Samhain.
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Alexander_Smith said:
Halloween or “All Hallows Eve” is about Saints, and praying for the dead. There’s nothing satanic about it. The whole “trick or treat” thing isn’t satanic either IMO, but I don’t think the emphasis on ghosts, vampires, and other things like that is healthy.
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