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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another appropriated holiday.  Samhain is a very sacred holiday in my faith.  It’s the day the veil is at its thinnest.  We communicate with and honor our deceased ancestors. Costumes were meant to help the living blend in with the dead. We carve Jack-o-lanterns to scare away any unwanted guests.  It is our most important festival.  I love that we celebrate Halloween in the US.  But I hate how evangelical Christians pretend it isn’t a pagan/Wiccan holiday.  Same with Yule (Christmas). Same with Ostara (Easter).  All the so-called “Christian” holidays were appropriated.

If you attend a church that celebrates Samhain (Halloween), your church is 10O% hypocritical.  It is a pagan holiday. [/quote]

Do you think only evangelical Christians “pretend” Halloween isn’t your sacred holiday? All other religions, the non-religious, and everyone in between vocally acknowledge your sacred holiday?

This forum is a joke…now evangelicals aren’t acknowledging Samhain! [/quote]

What I hate is the hypocrisy.  It is a pagan holiday.  Pretending it isn’t is ridiculous.  I actually respect the churches that don’t celebrate it at all.  At least they acknowledge that the holiday is not one evangelicals should participate in.   [/quote]

Pagans sacrificed humans and animals, and practiced cannibalism. Do you do such things to authentically worship your most sacred holiday?

Do you smear yourself with the blood of sacrificed animals and humans on Yule?

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Well at my church we drink blood and eat Jesus’ body.[/quote]

Well, you aren’t putting live, screaming infants on altars and murdering them to appease angry gods…which is why Jesus wants us to eat crackers and drink tiny cups of grape juice, instead.

pp isn’t a pagan. pagans needed blood to worship. 
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Um.  God told Abraham to put his baby on an Alter as a sacrifice.  😂[/quote]

(altar) We don’t do that anymore, and the “pagans” here don’t either. I bet they take Christmas vacation from work and open Christmas presents though! [/quote]

Modern paganism began in the 18th century, so not much blood sacrafices.[/quote]

So could the pagan arguing that Pagan traditions shouldn’t be hijacked explain their current practices’ relationship to paganism in the ancient world, when Jews and Christians were celebrating with eggs and pagans were sacrificing chickens to read auguries?[/quote]

Exactly.[/quote]

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