@@pencildragon1961 435?? bro what the hell are you eating to donate 435 times and still be fine like obviously not even once a day but thats still insane even if its like once a week
I lived in a small village and there was a little old lady who everyone thought was a witch because her chimney would give out coloured smoke on Halloween, turned out she worked at a paper factory and she used to take the out of date inks from the printing press and burn them on her fire because she didn't have central heating, she did it in October because it was so wet she couldn't burn the logs for heat, in the end she had a wood shed built but still burned the ink for the heck of it, also, she made the BEST carrot cake ever!
@@janmango4692 It's origin is WWII, as sugar was rationed carrots were used to naturally sweeten many things, originally a beef dish, which was mostly shredded beef, carrots, beef stock and potatoes, however some housewives found that adding it to pudding made a sweet dish, modern carrot cake is what the old lady made, along with a whole bunch of other stuff!
“Reason Tao created One, One became Two…” (and then the shit SERIOUSLY hit the fan!) And now I will click my heels three times and say the magic words… “Ray Bradbury” - Yet more love, Glenn (“PGWotWxSW”)
As my father used to sagely observe, “That damned kid just won’t shut up!” I will say that I would be inclined to recommend Bradbury’s “Something Wicked This Way Comes” for when you come up gasping for breath after reading Shirley Jackson’s “We Have Always Lived In The Castle”… For a wonderful “modern” scary book, you’d be hard pressed to find better than the equally wonderful and mysterious A. A. Attanasio’s “Hellbound,” his name alone being worth the price of admission (and I have a copy of his signature in a signed book, which is TERRIFYINGLY and singularly beautiful!)… I’ll expect your reports on my desk Monday the 31st! And remember, all work must begin with the phrase, “I liked this book because it was interesting…” (cackle…), Glenn
I once heard a pastor ask a child what Halloween meant to her. To which the child responded with " It is one the day of the year I can get all the free candy I want. And my mom and dad can't say a thing about it"
My aunt made a Halloween costume for her four month old daughter. It was a red cape and hood for a Little Red Riding Hood. A coworker told her that it was wrong to participate in Halloween. My aunt said something like “You’re full of it.”
Always brings a smile to my face when I think about the number of members of the Satanic Temple in essence being way better "Christians" than so-called Christians like the one in this video shouting fire and brimstone.
You have to be knowledgeable enough to understand history and understand religion within the context of history. The average person isn't that knowledgeable.
I think, just a guess here, that it extends from the 1st commandment (out of 10, not the "ask Jesus what the most important commandment" commandments) Thou shalt not have any other god (paraphrasing here). By this logic worship of anything not "god" must be against god, hence satanism. Mind you the modern concept of satan and hell is a hodgepodge of Greek, Viking, Old Testament book of Job, New Testament bits and bobs, book of Revelation, and other borrowed mysticisms all taken out of historical context that it would really take a while to explain it all out.
No gift shopping or cards to send, no dramatic family dinners, no terrible music. Just candy, dressing up in fun costumes and lots of monster movies on TV. We need at least 2 more holidays like Halloween!
Even that Monster Mash song which is somewhat cheesy and dated is still pretty fun and enjoyable. I mean, I can think of at least 5 phenomenally terrible Christmas songs off the top of my head.
I find Halloween especially agreeable since becoming aware of how much mean, dishonest theists hate it. Come on, guys, let's carry on winging 'em up. They deswerve it.
I'm wiccan and I'm so happy that you brought up the fact that Halloween and Christmas both have pagan origins I don't see people talk about that that much thank you
yes and I'm so sick and tired of people saying Christmas is for the celebration for the birth of Christ. I don't say anything because i just don't want problems with family members or neighbors. if Jesus lived they think he would have been born in spring. Christians took over the holiday.
@@rebeccarebeccaa2515 Even if Jesus was born on Dec 25th, that was during the use of the Julian calander, now we use the Gregorian calander which pushes his b day to the middle of January.
I never knew people believed Halloween was satanic and refused to let their children participate until my son started kindergarten. I felt so sorry for the kids left sitting on the sidelines during the Halloween activities.
Halloween (and Samhain) to me represents a time for people to grapple with the reality of death and the fact that it is an inescapable part of life. It helps us to embrace that reality rather than living in fear.
@@CrazyGamebino Lots of European cultures will also go to care for the graves of their ancestors and to remember/commune with them as the veil between the living and the dead is at its thinnest.
Yes I've always taken it to be a sort of harvest celebration combined with a time to rest and be thankful in remembrance of our ancestors and everything.
Halloween isn't all "witches, devils and serial killers" anymore, either. Most kids are dressing up like superheroes and pop stars. Halloween may have once been a tradition where you dress up like ghosts and monsters to "disguise" yourself from the spirits, but it's evolved into a broader form of self-expression that covers all forms of culture and creativity.
You want a totally twisted story about what Yhwh is? I'll give you one. The entity the Abrahamic believers worship is an ancient Nosferatu, taking into consideration the copious amounts of bloodshed "it" constantly demands, even of innocent children which is the sweet dessert for sure. Jews, Christians and Muslims, all believers in the same so-called God, have been slaughtering each other for centuries, even within the same religion it has been nothing but an orgy of blood: Orthodox against Reformist, Catholics against Protestants, Shia against Suni... nothing but rivers of blood and suffering. And that creepy, disgusting ritual of drinking the blood of Christ during the Communion confirms it. Yhwh is the original vampyr and their believers are just blood cattle being groomed to quench Its greed. How's that for a Dark Fantasy novel plot? Merry Xmas everyone and be kind to each other.
@@truthismycause2800 god damn that needs to be a movie with keanu reeves as constantine again battling his inner demons and relationship with the vatican.
This type of thinking is why I couldn't enjoy Halloween growing up, my mom literally thought Halloween was celebrating the devils birthday. It's my favorite holiday now and thankfully she has chilled out and can enjoy it with my kid
As a Christian, it is so refreshing to see someone researching and talking about the history of Christian holidays. I've had this discussion so many times with fellow Christians. Thank you so much for an honest, grounded take on multiple beliefs.
Is it actually a Christian holiday, though? I thought the roots predated the religion, like with Christmas (Yule/Saturnalia). If it is Christian in origin, the misinterpretation of it by people who “should” celebrate it is then… sad? Ironic? I’m not sure how I feel about it.
Sacrificing children - you mean like how Jesus was sacrificed for humanity's original sin, because god couldn't fix it any other way, and he still failed to fix it? Hmmm...
I grew up in the Bible Belt in the 1980s. Maybe I just missed it, but I never heard anything about Halloween being satanic. I don't recall any of my classmates saying they weren't allowed to go trick-or-treating. The first I heard of it being satanic was in the mid-to-late 90s, when it suddenly seemed to be getting a lot of traction. I really wondered about people who grew up celebrating Halloween but suddenly thought it was evil. I remember asking a couple of people, "Didn't you go trick-or-treating when you were a kid? And did it do you any damage?" And they just looked at me blankly, like that didn't even occur to them.
This is relatively new. Since the late 80s and 90s this has been being parroted up in the northeast. It slowly trickled down the coast. I knew several kids back in the day who couldnt celebrate halloween as it was satanic. This was brought about by the satanic panic.
That's wild to me bc I grew up in Alabama in the 90s and I had a number of friends whose parents were caught up in this santanic panic stuff... One family I remember didn't even do Christmas trees and Santa at Christmas bc it was pagan :/
I don't know this Bible thing well enough to quote it, but as an atheist, I suppose my parallel "rules" would be: "Be decent to each other" - Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure "Don't be a dick" - various
As a Finnish pagan it's cool to hear about samhain because it's somewhat similar to the Finnish pagan festival of kekri. One lovely tradition of kekri is the accommodation of ancestors. They for example get their own bath and mealtime.
People call you a demon? That's funny, you're literally one of the calmest and kindest people I know! I watch a lot of commentary youtubers and you're like a sweet pie among them
Samhain is a celebration of the end of farming year. Many nations have their own version of it, here in Finland it's called "Kekri". An important aspect of it is remembering the dead. It is believed that on the first night on November (which in Finnish is even called "death month") the barrier between the worlds of the living and dead is weak and the dead can visit us. That is the origin of spooky decoration and dressing. Christians have hijacked this celebration, just as they hijacked Yule and Easter, and claim that it's about christian saints.
Samhain is my favorite holiday! We make food, set up the alter all fancy, and share all our favorite stories about or relatives who have passed. It also marks a new year for the Wiccan calendar, and marks when we begin leaving candles in the windows! Just wonderful and I dare say wholesome all around.
I’m a nondenominational Christian, and I try to base my life on love, acceptance, and learning and I loved listening to you pointing out the pagan ties to Christmas and Halloween. And to all those reading this, on behalf of those who call themselves Christians and try and spread hate I want to say sorry and believe what you want to believe just plz be nice to others.
I used to work in a company that allowed dress up on Halloween, and be lady (a younger one at that) not only didn’t participate m, but she was actually distressed. She seemed to honestly fear her co-workers who were in costume. I tried telling her that it was just ‘dress up’ for grownups, but there was no consoling her. How sad that she was so brainwashed that she couldn’t enjoy a bit of fun.
I mean, I have a coworker who's kinda creeped out by scary masks, but she just backs away and hides behind the kids (who think it's hilarious, by the way)
I wore a Star Trek movie (2 thru 6) monster maroon uniform that I made. Even wore the ribbons and medal I was awarded when I was in the US Air Force. One of my coworkers was upset that I wore them until I showed him my DD Form 214 and the related segment in Air Force uniform regulation.
And anyone worried about those sacrificial animals, I'm sure all of them were very bad. Like, biting their mothers' ears and pooping on the good shovel bad!
@@JaytheOstrich17 According to every source I can find, it's "Sow-In" but a British singer sings it "sa-wayne" and that's how I've always said it, haha.
Having been raised Catholic, we quite looked forward to chocolate advent calendars and I didn't know those being bad was a thing. I mean, the Sunday school sold them next to the donuts and then you went to the Christmas tree and grabbed a paper ornament and that would say what you were buying for the kids at the homeless center that year. Usually it was toys, shoes, books, coats or fun blankets.
Thank you Emma! I was raised in one of those households where Halloween was the Devil's holiday. The best part of leaving and becoming my own dude was questioning that belief. And candy. Candy was important too. Equal parts self realization and candy......maybe 60/40 candy. Anyway, thank you for sharing.
Fun fact, in Newfoundland, Canada (a place where many Irish migrated), we did the turnip Jack-O-Lanterns well into the 20th century, until American media got popular here and it switched to pumpkins. We also still do Mumming (called Mummering here) between Boxing Day and before NYE.
Here in the Netherlands children go around with lanterns and sing songs at people's doors for sweets on St Martin's evening, November 11th. Today we make lanterns out of paper, but traditionally we also hollowed out turnips for that.
Fundie: "HALLOWEEN IS SATANIC AND YOU'RE ALL DEVIL WORSHIPING MONSTERS!" Me, dressed as an outrageously tall Pikachu: "My dude. I'm out here because my nieces want candy... also I want candy."
We are going as porcelain goth dolls as a family this year, my daughte rmy wife and i. Probably last year will go with my daughter since well, she's getting older and probably will want to go out with just her friends next year. But yeah, candies.
I've always looked at celebrating Halloween as laughing in the face of our fears to give us power over them. Surely not celebrating evil. I was a child in the '50s, our favorite neighborhood trick or treat stop was the tiny house where the sweet elderly couple always invited us in to see our costumes and hand out their homemade fudge.
As a trans woman, working in a male dominated field, driving an over the road semi tractor trailer I claimed my place by doing a better job than most of the men and also I have a dominant personality and I don’t let people walk on me.
Good for you, stand tall. My truck driving career raised my kids, kept the family fed, and put them through college, while also keeping the mortgage and truck note paid. It can be a very lucrative field, but like you said, you've got to stand up for yourself. Especially if you're OO/LO. Unfortunately, you had an additional handicap. Or perhaps maybe a benefit? After all, after you stand up for yourself the first few times, it's much easier after that. Almost second nature, really. Whatever the case, once again, good for you.
Good for you, but you’re talking about yourself and that has nothing to do with the video’s subject matter. What does truck driving have to do with evangelical misconceptions on the origin of Halloween?
I bought $300 in full size candy bars for children. I joked about asking them to sign their name in fake blood for them but my wife said no, it would scare the normies. :D
i have / had several friends whose parents thought like this. i find it so weird every single time edit: actually, commenting this reminded me of my one friend who has super liberal christian parents, like one of their kids is an athiest and two of them are queer and her parents know and are very chill about it, but god forbid you even suggest leaving their house on halloween. that always seemed like such a strange place to draw the line to me
@@hoathanatos6179 Devil's Night (or Mischief Night) isn't all that well-known or widespread in the US. It has stayed as a tradition in particular areas (most known in Detroit and Philadelphia), but its prominence is not all over, and the person you replied to may not really know of it. I was raised out west and didn't learn of the term "Devil's Night" or "Mischief Night" as a popular phenomenon the night *before* Halloween until I was in my 20s--I had heard Halloween itself called Devil's Night, and if you look through the results of a good search online, you will probably find several articles that call Halloween by those names, conflating the titles to be the same event. More likely, the Christian parents have a superstitious belief that spooky things will happen to their kids, that they'll be influenced by a literal Satan more easily on that night, so they see greater threat to the kids who are allowed to roam freely.
@@HasanUnknown Yes. Those of us who have read a Qur'an are aware of Muslims' views on Jesus. Just the Qur'an accepts a Jesus that is based on Egyptian apocryphal texts that are quite contrary to the traditional Christian view of Christ and it also mixes up Jesus's mother Mary (Maryam in Arabic) with Moses's sister Miriam. Like the Qur'an says that Jesus grandfather is Imran (Amram in Hebrew) when that's Moses's father. Mary's dad was named Joachim.
Samain is still a thing here in Spain, it’s a folk festivity in towns. Children dress up in medieval costumes and there are barbecues. It’s quite fun ☺️
As an older Englishman I grew up without the American import of trick or treating and dressing up. I find the whole thing harmless and a great time to be a kid like my grandchildren. It’s good natured fun.
This makes me giggle because my 2 daughters are currently at my partner's aunt's house making Halloween treats. She is a Christian who makes a cake and sings "Happy Birthday Dear Jesus" on Christmas UNIRONICALLY. And she's fine with Halloween. She is very nice person who is very involved with her church AND is accepting of her atheist bisexual nephew and his atheist gay transgender husband. You can be a Christian or any kind of theist and still enjoy the mostly secularized celebration that is modern Halloween.
My dad and step-mom were and are fundamentalist evangelical Christians. While some weirdos in the church made a big deal about Halloween, they were always fine with decorating, handing out candy, and letting us all go out. Even they rolled their eyes at these everything is satan types.
A Samhain story about Fionn mac Cumhaill (Finn McCool) based on stories I grew up with so not actually researching. The High King Conn of the Hundred Battles held a great feast at Tara for six weeks. Petty kings and chiefs came from all corners of Ireland to drink amd feast on wild boar and roasted wolf, to listen to the music of the harp amd to stories of old. Sitting at the head of the table, Conn declared "Let the feasting begin and remember, from now until the end, none may draw a weapon no matter what quarrels you had last week or last year." The feast of Samhain was always special for this is the time when the passage between our world and the Otherworld and when the Sidhe (pronounced "Shee", means fairies) crossed over. One Sidhe, a goblin called Ailléan of the Flaming Breath, came to Tara to play music and lull everyone to sleep and burn Tara to the ground for nine years. On the eve of Samhain, Foinn mac Cumhaill came to Tara seeking to join the Fianna. His father previously served Conn as head of the Fianna until his death at the hands of Goll mac Morna. Fionn pledged to the king that he will kill Ailléan before he can burn down Tara again, in exchange for leading the Fianna as his father once did. As night fell, he noticed something in the foggy dew and a sidhe perched itself on a rock just outside of Tara. He pulled out a silver flute and began playing his music, as Fionn felt himself falling asleep. With whatever strength he could muster, he took his spear and stabbed himself in the face with it. Now fully invigorated, he saw Ailléan put his flute away and open his mouth. A huge flame shot out and began snaking its way towards the palace, but Fionn ripped off his cloak and smothered it. Then he turned his attention towards Ailléan and ran after him. Just before the goblin could escape to his rath, Fionn caught up with him, cut off his head and presented it to the High King and all the warriors to bear witness. As promised, Fionn was rewarded with the leadership of the Fianna, and Goll mac Morna willingly stepped down, acknowledging Fionn's bravery.
Fun fact: Part of the myths about Fionn mac Cumhaill is that he was raised by Bodhmall (Druid Mum) and her partner Liath Luachra (Warrior Mum), but the tales don't really go into their relationship so feel free to read as much or as little into it as you want
I learned my love of Halloween from my very sincere Christian mother, who ALWAYS dressed as a pirate and went with me door to door or answered our door in costume.
I'm an old atheist guy who tends to stumble on to atheistic outlets for the heck of it. I like your Yt channel, Emma, because you're quite informative and your interests tend to coincide with my own. But, I also come here because you're an informed and interesting person whose quirky sense of humour makes me lol every time. Thank you very much for that. I appreciate a good chuckle ☮
So I remember when I was in elementary school (that's grades 1 to 5) there was this kid that was a friend of mine named Dylan. Dylan went to this church that was up the road from where I lived called "Victorious Life". His mother ran a dance studio called "Song And Dance". I remember asking him what he was going to be dressing as for Halloween one year. He straight looked at me stone faced and said "Halloween is the devil's birthday.". Poor Dylan was the only kid in the entire school that wasn't allowed to dress for Halloween. I remember his mother like made him wear a red ribbon because instead of Halloween he got to celebrate some shit like "bicycle safety week" or something. Poor kid. This was the early nineties and was the first time I'd ever heard a religious person rail against Halloween.
@@eric2500 It's funny how letting our kids pretend to be axe murderers when their young helps prevent them from becoming ACTUAL axe murderers isn't it? I haven't seen him in decades but I hope he turned out alright as well.
@@HasanUnknown You muslims also believe if your children leave your backwater faith, you have to kill them. [Quran:- 7:1-15]. You also believe that your god is 'good' despite mass rape and genocide, which your faithful continue to perpetuate to this day. Your holy book demands bloodshed, and ascribes hate to people you've never met. Your 'god' is an evil farce, made up by a man who had sex with his children (Mohammed your prophet is a sodomite and paedophile, as proven by his own marriage records). Why would any reasonable person worship your evil god? Why would any of us respect your child rapist prophet? Why should you get anything but well deserved disgust for the inhumanity of your evil religion?
I already thought very highly of you for your sense of humor, your intellect, and your just all over cute appearance but now I know you love Halloween as well! I am a Pagan. Every year I look forward to just having a good time with my family reflecting on those who have passed, dressing up, decorating the house and making fun/weird spooky themed treats! I must be a disappointment to this man because there is no sacrifices involved in my family fun of this holiday. 🧛♀🎃👻🔮
If you watch her hand motions carefully she spells out "damned be thy souls" in ancient Hebrew script. This is even more terrifying when you realize she is clearly wearing mixed fabrics and most likely had shellfish for dinner.
Growing up in the ancient 80's and 90's, Turnips where still used for lanterns (not an easy thing to hollow out) and look so much creepier when they slowly rot
When I was a little jehovah's witness kid, I would get so broken hearted this time of year because all I wanted was to take part in all the Halloween events
The Christian Bible never mentions any vampire, but does tell a pretty detailed story about a zombie🤣🤣 And dressing up as a nazi or the tax man is what I consider an appearance of evil lol New sub, by the way. How the algorithm led you to me is beyond me but I certainly enjoyed my first video! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!
Devil worship is the most moral form of worship that could come from reading the Bible. The main character of that book is literally evil, so I totally support following its opponent.
Matthew 5.9 "Blissful are the peacemakers, since they will be called "sons of God." No sir, You have a demon and it breaks my heart knowing that none of you can see the deception you brought yourself in.
@@HallowedLife Hey. You're the one worshipping the guy that demands human sacrifices. If you got to kill something to be in a guy's good graces, that's probably not a very good guy.
I have a religious aunt that says it’s the devils Holiday. On Halloween her and all her church friends put out signs on their house saying “we do not celebrate Halloween, this is the house of the Lord” 😅
One of my old Churches did something called Awana it was a sort of primary school youth group program which did something called "trunk or treating" on Halloween, which basically meant that everyone dressed up as *Bible characters*, and got candy from the *trunks* of parents cars in the Church parking lot, it was as depressing and boring as you'd think. *Except* for the fact that my dad has a good sense of humor and he and my mom would make costumes that were (loosely) inspired by Bible stories like one year they sent me as a "mummy" that was *supposedly* Lazarus in his burial shroud, after Jesus resurrected him, another year my Dad sent my sister there in a long cardboard box like costume complete with inch markings costume with prop money bags (the rich young ruler) These shenanigans irritated the Awana people to high hell, and looking back on it, it's still funny as shit to me.
@@davidallamericananarchist9220 Oh yeah I vaguely remember watching a video about the trunk or treating event. Perhaps they sensed that the kids wouldn't be able to resist Halloween and that they had to distract them with their own version.
@@davidallamericananarchist9220 We had trunk or treating where I grew up but it arose more as a response to the hysteria around all the (often fake) news stories about candy being tampered with. The two churches in town would host them, but they didn't have any real restrictions on people dressing up or anything like that. It was billed as a safe environment for kids to interact and show off costumes and get candy. They kept it light hearted and community focused, which is astonishing because they were NOT like that when it came to Christmas and whatnot lol. Of course I actually trick or treated as a kid and had a lot of fun getting dropped off and rushing between yards. Kept going out until my teens when I started driving and taking my younger siblings to do it. Wandering around town, planning out the best route based on how late you managed to get out. It's far less common these days to have that level of freedom on Halloween, in the states anyway.
@@kylegonewild "Trunk or treating" was sooo popular with the local church groups in my mostly deep red small home town (Tehachapi CA.) That the city itself hosted it's own trunk or treat in the downtown area, it almost wrecked Halloween, except for the fact that we always had a few fursuiters in the area, (Tehachapi is an aerospace industry hub) and they were always the nicest and funniest people there...
Halloween is my baby sister's favorite holiday. This year will be her one year wedding anniversary as well. She got married in an old castle outside of Cleveland, OH. We had a family friend playing "This is Halloween" on an acoustic guitar. And yes, I teared up!
Wow. So well articulated, Emma! I love modern Halloween; it allows children to explore fears and scary situations in a safe way. It helps children build the confidence they are going to need as adolescents & adults, to process real-world horrors.... Plus the candy. Don't forget about the candy.
"He's a liar. The demon is a liar. He would like to confuse us. He will also mix lies with the truth, to attack us. The attack is a psychological thing, but powerful." -Father Damien Karras, SJ (The Exorcist) How well that aged and fits just perfectly in describing guys like this.
Being a teacher at a school, you’d surely encounter many things and one of the things that struck me the most is when a student of mine (aged 7) told me out loud after we discussed about Halloween is that he won’t celebrate Halloween because it’s devil’s festival. We do decorate our school with Halloween deco but this kid isn’t willing to look at Halloween deco because he’s “Christian”. Idk what they feed him but it’s sad. I explained that it’s not about worshiping satan, it’s about pagan and yes a child couldn’t tell change his mind immediately of course if it’s deep rooted belief. I couldn’t celebrate it as a child too since my parents are muslims and we get all the “satan” worshipping moment, so I wish it’d be nice to celebrate all sorts of things without being deemed as sinful or whatsoever it is especially for kids…like really why can’t they let kids have fun?
Some people think fun will somehow harm an all-powerful creator of a trillion galaxies. Remember, reality is of no consequence when you feel you have a god on your side.
When God is your Father, you are willing to bring honor to His name in this one life He has given in anyway. The opinions of man are nothing to compared to a Father who says "Be Holy for I am Holy." The Holy Spirit of God in a person will make them Holy. An evil spirit will make people evil and allow compromise with wickedness a small easy thing. Yes sin is easy but not small. Will you drink a glass of water with 10 drops of poison? What about 1 drop? So proud to justify self. Jesus is the Son of God who is the standard of exceptance into the presence of God.
@@rembrandt972ify so you as a mere mortal and holding God who is beyond cosmic level in contempt? 🤔 ok see how that will play out for you bud. The Sin of pride makes us very stupid. "God "I" (have the audacity to counsel You) believe you have done evil things bur don't judge me for wicked things I have done cause I'm a good person. Lol. Yeeeee!!!
@@MetalArms16212 Pride is a virtue, not a fault. What makes you stupid is not pride or sin but the insistence on ignoring evidence which conflicts with your evil beliefs. Try thinking for yourself for once. You will never regret it.
Samhain is very important to me, for many reasons. I have celebrated with friends and also on my own. At no point are children being sacrificed. Tell me you don't do your research without telling me you don't do your research. 😑 I'm so tired of hearing everything is devil worship, and that we sacrifice children. I am wiccan, and it just hurts to see something that is personal and beautiful to me and others be demonized by religious zealots that refuse to educate themselves. So thank you so much for touching on this and providing lol kns to learn more. Maybe also say I absolutely love your sweater? 🦇💕
From what I learnt, Samhain was the night when the veil that divided the world of the living and the realm of ghosts were thinnest and vengeful spirits would roam the land looking for victims and the good spirits of the ancestors would visit the family house, that's why the family would leave offerings of food and mead by the hearth to appease them. There are so many versions, but this was the one I came across more often.
_"Witches and devils and killers! Oh, My!"_ A perfect example of the straw man argument. _"Some people without brains do an aweful lot of talking... Don't they?"_ A brillient example of Scarecrow Wisdom (The Wizard of Oz).
Yah no My family is heavily religious and I am a trans bisexual atheist. When my family finally split my mom ran away from the religion (still doesn't accept lgbtq ppl). Now I am 16 and I'm celebrating my first Halloween!! I am super excited.
I was never allowed to celebrate Halloween while being raised in a fundie household and now Halloween is my favorite holiday. The determination to misunderstand and vilify anything that isn't "us" in christian circles is truly awful
@@Lonely_Raven_666 I truly don't understand why Christians haven't been able to pick up on the fact that the Bible was written by dudes over two thousand years ago. Not prophets... Not holy people.. just regular dudes. That's why it condones slavery and killing your own children and stoning women and all sorts of other fun things! If it was truly "the word of God", the book wouldn't be SO OBVIOUSLY pro male and anti everybody else. "What? No way, I'm totally allowed to kill people that don't look like me indiscriminately and I'm totally allowed to own other human beings, because it says so in the Bible itself! That's the word of God!" I guess I'm just assuming that most people have a working brain, which is giving way too much credit to Trumpers and QAnon wackos.
Emma!! I LOVE Halloween. Live for it. It was my late wife's second favorite. We actually had a Halloween themed wedding on Oct 13 2019. I miss her very much every day, and now around Halloween i dress up her Memorial in my Living Room with some extra spooky to match the Corpse Bride Pops she loved.
Christians having a moral panic over Halloween is kind of amusing. The origin of Halloween is specifically a Christian holiday. It's a contraction of All Hallows' Evening, and it basically honours all the saints (or "hallows" or "holy persons") of the Church. However the actual meaning varies between denominations - for example the Lutherans consider all Christians to be saints, so the day is more generally in honour of the dead rather than just specific Saints. Now the modern Halloween has more in common with the Celtic pagan festival of Samhain, it just has the Christian name, but there's nothing satanic about it - pagans didn't believe in Satan. It would be much more accurate to say that Abrahamic religions are Satanic, because the concept of Satan originates from Judaism and is them refined (or corrupted) in both Christianity and Islam to represent evil (though the original concept was not so single-minded). In America, and specifically Mexico, the Halloween also coincides with the Day of the Dead ( Día de los Muertos), which is probably an amalgamation of Christian Halloween, Celtic pagan traditions from Iberian peninsula, and some fairly modern interpretations of Aztec identity. There's nothing new about pagan traditions intermixing with Christian holidays. The Germanic people of Europe had this pretty big tradition of a Midwinter festival called Yule or Yuletide. Romans had a similarly timed festival called Saturnalia, and the Celtic people just celebrated the Winter Solstice as such. This meant that basically everywhere in the Roman Empire, there was a significant celebration timed at the shortest day of the year. In order to introduce Christianity to the Romans, Celts and Germans of the Empire as the new state religion, the early church leaders figured they might as well invent a Christian holiday to be celebrated at around that date, and that's how Christmas was born. Essentially, Christmas celebration was just a successful rebranding of Yule/Saturnalia/other associated Midwinter festivals, which were definitely paganic in their origin and many of the Christmas traditions are basically adaptations of pagan traditions associated with Yule and Saturnalia. And while the Christian holiday of Christmas is ostensibly celebrated to honour the birth of Christ, the actual birthdate of the hypothetical person called Jesus of Nazareth had nothing to do with December 25th. But I don't see a lot of Christians having a huge moral panic about Christmas being a Satanic devil worship festival.
Years ago there was a house in my neighborhood that would hand out religious pamphlets on Halloween. They would literally sit outside with Christian music playing and if you made the mistake of stopping at their yard they would thrust the pamphlet into your hand. Needless to say their house got TPed. They did manage to kill the Halloween spirit in our area for a while as people didn't want to go to the neighborhood with /those/ people bringing everyone down. Recently Halloween has been making a comeback as new people moved in and I think that family moved out. It's also been helpful to assist adopters to find my house as I can tell them "We're the house the looks like a spooky cemetery, you'll want to hang a right at the skeleton army and we're a few down from the huge Nightmare Before Christmas display."
There was a family down the street from us who did similar proselytizing during trick-or-treat one year. They handed out pencil sets and “Chick Tracts” that accused Wiccans of “recruiting” kids for Satan, having animal sacrifices, and worshipping Satan on Halloween (which we all know is absolute HORSE HOCKEY!). Needless to say, those stupid tracts hit the recycling bin as soon as my kids got home, especially since WE’RE Wiccans! Oh, and I heard several days later that the local teenagers got together that night and egged the holy snot out of the place as retribution! That family moved two years later, and they are NOT missed!
@@believestthouthis7 Sense: 1-10 - Quoting nonsense out of an ancient book that was plagiarised from much earlier cultures only makes the quoter look lazy and stupid
@@nickryan3417 1 Corinthians 1:18 [18]For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. The truth is foolishness to those that don't believe it.
@@believestthouthis7 Foolishness is whimsically spouting nonsense snippets out of a book written by man as if they have any value other to make you look stupid. Because that's all they do. You are not looking pious, nor wise, nor clever... you just look silly. I can quote dumb things from your bible too: Numbers 22:28 Then the Lord opened the donkey’s mouth, and it said to Balaam, “What have I done to you to make you beat me these three times?” There you go, I've now proved my point and shown you to be a donkey. I know this is true because I quoted a bit of the bible at you.
Ironically the Trick Or Treating on Halloween was started by the puritan pilgrims who went to North America, outside of North America traditional the closest thing to Trick or Treating was Guising, which is associated with All Saints Day, not Halloween.
Actually not true. Dressing up as spirits so they wouldn't haunt you was during the celtic times. And in the 9th century in celtic Ireland is where trick or treating came from
My parents never took me trick or treating, because they also thought that "all hallows eve" was satanic. Of course, that was during the satanic panic of the 90s.
I am shocked! I have never heard anything like that before! Well - it'll be worth a laugh, if nothing else. I wonder if he realizes where most Christmas traditions come from?
My kids did some early trick-or-treating at a local mall today. One dressed up as Woody and another dressed up as Jessie from Toy Story. Not once did they become possessed by any demons. We're still a ways away from the real Halloween. Maybe it'll happen next week.
Eclectic pagan here, loved the video as always. And great pronunciation of Samhain. It was probably a mixture of him only having heard the word a few times and his accent. It’s not often that i come across people who know how to pronounce it straight away. Also it’s hilarious to me that he’s so mad about us just having fun. Even back years and years ago. Sadly I can’t yet be open about being a pagan, but when I can, I’m finding fellow pagans to be able to have a bondfire with.
I had a very disturbing encounter on a Gothic/Wave/EBM Halloween Party in a deeply catholic state of my home country. My costume was an Undead Catholic Priest and we were having tons of fun with who-knows-what-else. One young woman came to me and I thought she wanted to dance and she said: "Ego te absolvo!" which confused me a lot. Asking her what she said, because latin isn't too common, she said "I forgive you in the name of Christ" and started asking whether I wanted to ridicule the church and its priests. "What you people here are doing is very wrong, so many people are dressing up as slutty nuns, you and many others are making a mockery of it..." Why of all places does a fundamental christian choose a "Dark Halloween Party" as her go-to on a Saturday night? Wasn't the line of hundreds of Victorian Vampires, Batcave Punks etc. a dead give-away this is not her kinda place? Or did she spontaneously decide this is part of her mission where she has to make everybody in the place repent whilst people are moshing out to "Should I stay or should I go?".
Here's a Catholic themed costume you will enjoy. It was the year Pope John Paul the first died after only one month. There was a party at that lovely Jesuit institution; Georgetown University. Seven guys borrowed a stretcher from the med school, six of them dressed as cardinals (not the bird), the seventh as the dead pope. The hall went dark, a spotlight shone on the entrance, and funeral music played as the pall bearers made their entrance.
You had me at slutty nuns. Look, I want to Catholic school for 8 years, and I can honestly say 99.999% of the nuns I saw would have been revolting as slutty nuns, BUT there was one of them, a young novice. Well now ....
By some miracle (haha) I was able to bring my intensely Catholic conservative mother to the goth club with me and she loved it XD There were so many things there that she might have objected to on religious grounds, but she didn't notice them because she was having too much fun, lol
The Halloween Tree is a great little family friendly video that goes over the origin of several things associated with halloween if not halloween directly. Highly recommend.
I had to grow up with this shit. All my friends went to go trick or treating, and I had to stay home, no costumes, no candy, no fun. Well, my parents' plan backfired because I now celebrate Halloween 365 days a year!!!
I have an aunt who has sorta similar beliefs. She thinks anything that is not Cristian is the devil. It's to the point where she once asked my mom (who is Buddhist) not to prey for her or send good thoughts her waybecause she didn't want my mom preying to demons and Satan for her.
I have a grandma like this, too. Anything not christian is the devil/satanic to her. & she also was so upset with my mom for learning about Buddhism & becoming a yoga teacher. We got a lot of “I’m worried about your soul” conversations from her. When I was in middle school I asked her “aren’t satanists technically Christian’s, since satan is only from christianity?” She hasn’t brought up religion to me ever since
"We should all be making turnip jack-o-lanterns" -Emma Thorne Respectfully... No we shouldn't Emma. Traditional turnip jack-o-lanterns are just nightmare faces. the pumpkin gourds were an improvement
I loved working Halloween when I was a cop. I had a huge tub in the passenger seat filled with candy. I'd mess with the kids and have them grab a bunch of candy. I'd give out so much candy. It was fun and the kids loved it.
Really enjoyed "The Birth of Satan: Tracing the Devil's Biblical Roots" by Wray and Mobley. Also "The Devil, A Very Short Introduction" by Darrien Oldridge.
Children can be helped to face and deal with their fears by pretending to be scary, and participating in the communal effort to scare away the unfriendly influences that are trying to crowd through the thin barrier and allow the beloved dead to come through.
Halloween was the Day between the Years in the Celtic Culture. It was the Day to remember the Ones who Died this year. The Celts were "partying" with Ancestors to have Luck in the following Year.
The fact that religious fundamentalists hate Halloween is a pro in my book. I like the fact it’s sacrilegious, it makes it more fun that way. Also, by some metrics Halloween is actually a four day holiday. October 30th is Mischief Night, The Festival of Sowen, the holiday Halloween originates from started on October 31st, and continued onto November 1st, and The Day of The Dead is November 2nd.
It is really about the Taurid Stream that bombarded us -13,000 years ago and other times. The radiant is in the Constellation of Taurus, more specifically the Pleiades, and it has a tuft tail, cloven hooves, and horns, it is coincident. It is a meteor stream nothing more, we anthropomorphized the phenomena. From the Deep Ocean Above
All Saints Day, All Hallows Eve, Day of the Dead, Harvest Festivals, Samhain, and more. The days as we pass from October to November have a long, varied history of celebrations. It's a nice time of the year, as we transition to colder weather in the Northern Hemisphere, but before it gets into Winter proper. Tends to be the end of harvest season too in a lot of areas. I love this time of the year.
Every colorful event happening between October 1st and March 1st that cheers people up has a star in my book. Copenhagen is cold, dark, rainy, boring so a bright light in a pumpkin brings a smile on my face.
I'm a pagan, and I do a blood sacrifice every Halloween. The Red Cross always says "thank you for the blood donation" and give me cookies.😀
you almost got me lmaoo
Not just a cookie, but they give me orange juice as well...
@@TheMilitantMazdakite Dude, relax... American Red Cross... Blood donation.... usually platelets. 435 lifetime donations.
@@pencildragon1961 Oh, I apologize. I misread your comment, and I am autistic. Anyway, I salute you!
@@pencildragon1961 435?? bro what the hell are you eating to donate 435 times and still be fine
like obviously not even once a day but thats still insane even if its like once a week
I lived in a small village and there was a little old lady who everyone thought was a witch because her chimney would give out coloured smoke on Halloween, turned out she worked at a paper factory and she used to take the out of date inks from the printing press and burn them on her fire because she didn't have central heating, she did it in October because it was so wet she couldn't burn the logs for heat, in the end she had a wood shed built but still burned the ink for the heck of it, also, she made the BEST carrot cake ever!
Awesome story!
carrot cake comes from the devil
@@janmango4692 It's origin is WWII, as sugar was rationed carrots were used to naturally sweeten many things, originally a beef dish, which was mostly shredded beef, carrots, beef stock and potatoes, however some housewives found that adding it to pudding made a sweet dish, modern carrot cake is what the old lady made, along with a whole bunch of other stuff!
“Reason Tao created One,
One became Two…”
(and then the shit SERIOUSLY hit the fan!)
And now I will click my heels three times and say the magic words… “Ray Bradbury”
- Yet more love,
Glenn
(“PGWotWxSW”)
As my father used to sagely observe, “That damned kid just won’t shut up!”
I will say that I would be inclined to recommend Bradbury’s “Something Wicked This Way Comes” for when you come up gasping for breath after reading Shirley Jackson’s “We Have Always Lived In The Castle”…
For a wonderful “modern” scary book, you’d be hard pressed to find better than the equally wonderful and mysterious A. A. Attanasio’s “Hellbound,” his name alone being worth the price of admission (and I have a copy of his signature in a signed book,
which is TERRIFYINGLY and singularly beautiful!)…
I’ll expect your reports on my desk Monday the 31st! And remember, all work must begin with the phrase,
“I liked this book because it was interesting…”
(cackle…),
Glenn
I once heard a pastor ask a child what Halloween meant to her. To which the child responded with " It is one the day of the year I can get all the free candy I want. And my mom and dad can't say a thing about it"
Halloween is no sense... but only Western godless people do not get it. Who knows why!
Lol😂
I think that's what Halloween is to a lot of kids! 😂
My aunt made a Halloween costume for her four month old daughter. It was a red cape and hood for a Little Red Riding Hood. A coworker told her that it was wrong to participate in Halloween. My aunt said something like “You’re full of it.”
I'm heatily sick of Christians.
She should have said, "Mind your business bitch!!"
the amount of christians that completely misunderstand and misuse the word satanism is never going to cease to amaze
Always brings a smile to my face when I think about the number of members of the Satanic Temple in essence being way better "Christians" than so-called Christians like the one in this video shouting fire and brimstone.
You have to be knowledgeable enough to understand history and understand religion within the context of history. The average person isn't that knowledgeable.
I think, just a guess here, that it extends from the 1st commandment (out of 10, not the "ask Jesus what the most important commandment" commandments) Thou shalt not have any other god (paraphrasing here). By this logic worship of anything not "god" must be against god, hence satanism. Mind you the modern concept of satan and hell is a hodgepodge of Greek, Viking, Old Testament book of Job, New Testament bits and bobs, book of Revelation, and other borrowed mysticisms all taken out of historical context that it would really take a while to explain it all out.
The funny thing is, you have to be christian to be satanist - otherwise, you don't really believe in Satan.
@@elinope4745 you literally just need to do a quick search and not be immediately closed minded like completely deranged cultist monsters always are
No gift shopping or cards to send, no dramatic family dinners, no terrible music. Just candy, dressing up in fun costumes and lots of monster movies on TV. We need at least 2 more holidays like Halloween!
Do it the celtic way, which basically means: there's a Halloween on every month, until and including December! ;)
Fine, then have less Santa, and more KRAMPUS!
Even that Monster Mash song which is somewhat cheesy and dated is still pretty fun and enjoyable. I mean, I can think of at least 5 phenomenally terrible Christmas songs off the top of my head.
@@Zero-ei8jn For me, the good Xmas songs are all from 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas.' 'Little Drummer Boy" is an offense against music itself.
I find Halloween especially agreeable since becoming aware of how much mean, dishonest theists hate it. Come on, guys, let's carry on winging 'em up. They deswerve it.
I'm wiccan and I'm so happy that you brought up the fact that Halloween and Christmas both have pagan origins I don't see people talk about that that much thank you
I like to say I'm celebrating Saturnalia around the Christmas season.
yes and I'm so sick and tired of people saying Christmas is for the celebration for the birth of Christ. I don't say anything because i just don't want problems with family members or neighbors. if Jesus lived they think he would have been born in spring. Christians took over the holiday.
Oh yeah, Christianity stole a lot from other religions
@@rebeccarebeccaa2515 Even if Jesus was born on Dec 25th, that was during the use of the Julian calander, now we use the Gregorian calander which pushes his b day to the middle of January.
@@tenofivelips January 7th
I never knew people believed Halloween was satanic and refused to let their children participate until my son started kindergarten. I felt so sorry for the kids left sitting on the sidelines during the Halloween activities.
Here in America we have our own celebration that involves massive amounts of eating, drinking and violence. It’s called Super Bowl Weekend.
Lmao 🤣
Wooooaaaah! Good one! Top that, Wales! Beat that, Bonfire NIght!
Obviously you never been to a hockey game. 😃😃😃
Or any day that ends in 'y.'
Halloween (and Samhain) to me represents a time for people to grapple with the reality of death and the fact that it is an inescapable part of life. It helps us to embrace that reality rather than living in fear.
I developed a similar pov from learning about dia de los muertos and how mexican and hispanic cultures that celebrate the holiday view the deceased
@@CrazyGamebino Lots of European cultures will also go to care for the graves of their ancestors and to remember/commune with them as the veil between the living and the dead is at its thinnest.
Yes I've always taken it to be a sort of harvest celebration combined with a time to rest and be thankful in remembrance of our ancestors and everything.
Somebody tell this christian that every major Christian holiday has roots in pagan mysticism. Except Valentines I think
Christianity is a study in NOT accepting the reality of death, so yet another reason they hate paganism, science, reality itself....
Halloween isn't all "witches, devils and serial killers" anymore, either. Most kids are dressing up like superheroes and pop stars. Halloween may have once been a tradition where you dress up like ghosts and monsters to "disguise" yourself from the spirits, but it's evolved into a broader form of self-expression that covers all forms of culture and creativity.
Fundie; “ stop …. dressing up as a serial killer…”
Me; “ shucks…. I will have to find an alternative to my Yahweh costume then..😂”
Best comment ever 🤣
You want a totally twisted story about what Yhwh is?
I'll give you one.
The entity the Abrahamic believers worship is an ancient Nosferatu, taking into consideration the copious amounts of bloodshed "it" constantly demands, even of innocent children which is the sweet dessert for sure.
Jews, Christians and Muslims, all believers in the same so-called God, have been slaughtering each other for centuries, even within the same religion it has been nothing but an orgy of blood: Orthodox against Reformist, Catholics against Protestants, Shia against Suni... nothing but rivers of blood and suffering.
And that creepy, disgusting ritual of drinking the blood of Christ during the Communion confirms it.
Yhwh is the original vampyr and their believers are just blood cattle being groomed to quench Its greed.
How's that for a Dark Fantasy novel plot?
Merry Xmas everyone and be kind to each other.
Dead 💀⚰️😂😂😂
@@truthismycause2800 god damn that needs to be a movie with keanu reeves as constantine again battling his inner demons and relationship with the vatican.
What do serial killers, specifically, wear? So I can avoid it, of course.
This guy is reminding me of the woman who said watching Hocus Pocus 2 could possibly cause spells to be cast through the tv.
Apparently Sony are working on it, but they're having trouble finding enough tiny Warlocks to put in the TVs
I saw that on an Instagram story, imagine living in fear of tv spells, my crazy aunt might believe in tv spells lol
This type of thinking is why I couldn't enjoy Halloween growing up, my mom literally thought Halloween was celebrating the devils birthday. It's my favorite holiday now and thankfully she has chilled out and can enjoy it with my kid
As a Christian, it is so refreshing to see someone researching and talking about the history of Christian holidays. I've had this discussion so many times with fellow Christians.
Thank you so much for an honest, grounded take on multiple beliefs.
Is it actually a Christian holiday, though? I thought the roots predated the religion, like with Christmas (Yule/Saturnalia). If it is Christian in origin, the misinterpretation of it by people who “should” celebrate it is then… sad? Ironic? I’m not sure how I feel about it.
Fundie: Pagans sacrificed children! RAAAR! BAD!
Fundie when asked about Jephthah's daughter:
Yeah, and archeologies revealed ancient Israelites did practice child sacrifice. Oups.
Silly you, thinking they've actually read the Bible!
Sacrificing children - you mean like how Jesus was sacrificed for humanity's original sin, because god couldn't fix it any other way, and he still failed to fix it? Hmmm...
@@ivanpetrov5255 It's a step up from drowning everybody again.
@@Explodington Isn't the drowning before that?
I grew up in the Bible Belt in the 1980s. Maybe I just missed it, but I never heard anything about Halloween being satanic. I don't recall any of my classmates saying they weren't allowed to go trick-or-treating. The first I heard of it being satanic was in the mid-to-late 90s, when it suddenly seemed to be getting a lot of traction. I really wondered about people who grew up celebrating Halloween but suddenly thought it was evil. I remember asking a couple of people, "Didn't you go trick-or-treating when you were a kid? And did it do you any damage?" And they just looked at me blankly, like that didn't even occur to them.
This is relatively new. Since the late 80s and 90s this has been being parroted up in the northeast. It slowly trickled down the coast. I knew several kids back in the day who couldnt celebrate halloween as it was satanic. This was brought about by the satanic panic.
That's wild to me bc I grew up in Alabama in the 90s and I had a number of friends whose parents were caught up in this santanic panic stuff... One family I remember didn't even do Christmas trees and Santa at Christmas bc it was pagan :/
I don't know this Bible thing well enough to quote it, but as an atheist, I suppose my parallel "rules" would be:
"Be decent to each other" - Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
"Don't be a dick" - various
@@MonkeyJedi99 Actually the book of Wyld Stallyns says 'Be Excellent to each other.' :)
@@OllamhDrab I thank you for the information. Party on!
As a Finnish pagan it's cool to hear about samhain because it's somewhat similar to the Finnish pagan festival of kekri. One lovely tradition of kekri is the accommodation of ancestors. They for example get their own bath and mealtime.
People call you a demon? That's funny, you're literally one of the calmest and kindest people I know! I watch a lot of commentary youtubers and you're like a sweet pie among them
And the ones who call people demons are typically aggressive
Samhain is a celebration of the end of farming year. Many nations have their own version of it, here in Finland it's called "Kekri". An important aspect of it is remembering the dead. It is believed that on the first night on November (which in Finnish is even called "death month") the barrier between the worlds of the living and dead is weak and the dead can visit us. That is the origin of spooky decoration and dressing. Christians have hijacked this celebration, just as they hijacked Yule and Easter, and claim that it's about christian saints.
Exactly...
Bingo!
Samhain is my favorite holiday! We make food, set up the alter all fancy, and share all our favorite stories about or relatives who have passed. It also marks a new year for the Wiccan calendar, and marks when we begin leaving candles in the windows! Just wonderful and I dare say wholesome all around.
I’m a nondenominational Christian, and I try to base my life on love, acceptance, and learning and I loved listening to you pointing out the pagan ties to Christmas and Halloween. And to all those reading this, on behalf of those who call themselves Christians and try and spread hate I want to say sorry and believe what you want to believe just plz be nice to others.
I used to work in a company that allowed dress up on Halloween, and be lady (a younger one at that) not only didn’t participate m, but she was actually distressed. She seemed to honestly fear her co-workers who were in costume. I tried telling her that it was just ‘dress up’ for grownups, but there was no consoling her. How sad that she was so brainwashed that she couldn’t enjoy a bit of fun.
I mean, I have a coworker who's kinda creeped out by scary masks, but she just backs away and hides behind the kids (who think it's hilarious, by the way)
She was faking it to get workmans comp for her fake ass trauma. LOL. Or she was brainwashed. Sad either way.
I wore a Star Trek movie (2 thru 6) monster maroon uniform that I made. Even wore the ribbons and medal I was awarded when I was in the US Air Force.
One of my coworkers was upset that I wore them until I showed him my DD Form 214 and the related segment in Air Force uniform regulation.
As a Celtic pagan, thank you for giving the rundown of Samhain 🥰
And anyone worried about those sacrificial animals, I'm sure all of them were very bad. Like, biting their mothers' ears and pooping on the good shovel bad!
So, what IS the proper pronunciation, then?
@@JaytheOstrich17 she pronounced it correctly. I meant she made sure to include the meaning of Samhain
@@JaytheOstrich17 It's pronounced Samhain. Samhain. Hm... it sounds way different on a keyboard. Well, I tried :p
@@JaytheOstrich17 According to every source I can find, it's "Sow-In" but a British singer sings it "sa-wayne" and that's how I've always said it, haha.
Having been raised Catholic, we quite looked forward to chocolate advent calendars and I didn't know those being bad was a thing. I mean, the Sunday school sold them next to the donuts and then you went to the Christmas tree and grabbed a paper ornament and that would say what you were buying for the kids at the homeless center that year. Usually it was toys, shoes, books, coats or fun blankets.
Thank you Emma! I was raised in one of those households where Halloween was the Devil's holiday.
The best part of leaving and becoming my own dude was questioning that belief. And candy. Candy was important too.
Equal parts self realization and candy......maybe 60/40 candy. Anyway, thank you for sharing.
Fun fact, in Newfoundland, Canada (a place where many Irish migrated), we did the turnip Jack-O-Lanterns well into the 20th century, until American media got popular here and it switched to pumpkins. We also still do Mumming (called Mummering here) between Boxing Day and before NYE.
Here in the Netherlands children go around with lanterns and sing songs at people's doors for sweets on St Martin's evening, November 11th. Today we make lanterns out of paper, but traditionally we also hollowed out turnips for that.
@@DinosaurianDude Yes but St Martins is a whole different thing. But you know how Christians adopt and distort things to fit the narrative.
Mumming is common for Hogmanay so that makes sense!
@@DinosaurianDude Elf November is de nacht....
Fundie: "HALLOWEEN IS SATANIC AND YOU'RE ALL DEVIL WORSHIPING MONSTERS!"
Me, dressed as an outrageously tall Pikachu: "My dude. I'm out here because my nieces want candy... also I want candy."
We are going as porcelain goth dolls as a family this year, my daughte rmy wife and i. Probably last year will go with my daughter since well, she's getting older and probably will want to go out with just her friends next year. But yeah, candies.
Prettt much.
Make sure you tell them you want a certain percentage of the candy for walking around with them and most likely freezing your assets off. ;)
I mean, I WOULD go as Jesus, but that'd be sacrilegious, wouldn't it?
@@denverarnold6210 Not on Halloween! Or on any other day if you're not a Christian!
I've always looked at celebrating Halloween as laughing in the face of our fears to give us power over them. Surely not celebrating evil. I was a child in the '50s, our favorite neighborhood trick or treat stop was the tiny house where the sweet elderly couple always invited us in to see our costumes and hand out their homemade fudge.
As a trans woman, working in a male dominated field, driving an over the road semi tractor trailer I claimed my place by doing a better job than most of the men and also I have a dominant personality and I don’t let people walk on me.
Good for you, stand tall.
My truck driving career raised my kids, kept the family fed, and put them through college, while also keeping the mortgage and truck note paid.
It can be a very lucrative field, but like you said, you've got to stand up for yourself.
Especially if you're OO/LO.
Unfortunately, you had an additional handicap. Or perhaps maybe a benefit? After all, after you stand up for yourself the first few times, it's much easier after that. Almost second nature, really.
Whatever the case, once again, good for you.
Wait how is this related to the video
Good for you, but you’re talking about yourself and that has nothing to do with the video’s subject matter. What does truck driving have to do with evangelical misconceptions on the origin of Halloween?
He pronounced it Sam Wayne! I find that unreasonably hilarious :D
As a red blooded 'Murican, I endorse you making fun of that guy :D
Frickin' A, Bubba!
You betcha....
I bought $300 in full size candy bars for children. I joked about asking them to sign their name in fake blood for them but my wife said no, it would scare the normies. :D
do it anyway^^ normies will be scared reguardless
So basically you're saying you bought yourself 150 bucks worth a candy and fooled your wife.
@@PerspectiveEngineer Nah its for the kiddies
Good, do it - fuck normies.
I love this so much. Stupid normies.
As a Pagan. I'm happy you mentioned Samhain and how some of us practice
Thank you Emma. That guy’s nonsense could impact young people if it weren’t for folks like you! You can set them straight.
I’ve never sacrificed a cow on Halloween….just a lot of Reese’s 😂
Slow cooked some pork ribs on Halloween. Does that count?
I think more cows get sacrificed on the Fourth of July
You missed the obvious Halloween sacrifice: Kit Kats!
I have sacrificed many a chocolate bar on this most sacred day!
And also the occasional virgin…
That sacrifice goes all the way through to the day after Valentines for me (Feb 15 is special in my family, we grab the discounted candy).
i have / had several friends whose parents thought like this. i find it so weird every single time
edit: actually, commenting this reminded me of my one friend who has super liberal christian parents, like one of their kids is an athiest and two of them are queer and her parents know and are very chill about it, but god forbid you even suggest leaving their house on halloween. that always seemed like such a strange place to draw the line to me
I would think that they'd be more worried about Devil's Night (the night before Halloween when all of the trickery happens) over Halloween itself.
@@hoathanatos6179 Devil's Night (or Mischief Night) isn't all that well-known or widespread in the US. It has stayed as a tradition in particular areas (most known in Detroit and Philadelphia), but its prominence is not all over, and the person you replied to may not really know of it. I was raised out west and didn't learn of the term "Devil's Night" or "Mischief Night" as a popular phenomenon the night *before* Halloween until I was in my 20s--I had heard Halloween itself called Devil's Night, and if you look through the results of a good search online, you will probably find several articles that call Halloween by those names, conflating the titles to be the same event. More likely, the Christian parents have a superstitious belief that spooky things will happen to their kids, that they'll be influenced by a literal Satan more easily on that night, so they see greater threat to the kids who are allowed to roam freely.
@@HasanUnknown Hush your nonsense. FFS, not everything that allows you to type is an excuse to spout your superstitious drivel. Piss off.
@@HasanUnknown Yes. Those of us who have read a Qur'an are aware of Muslims' views on Jesus. Just the Qur'an accepts a Jesus that is based on Egyptian apocryphal texts that are quite contrary to the traditional Christian view of Christ and it also mixes up Jesus's mother Mary (Maryam in Arabic) with Moses's sister Miriam. Like the Qur'an says that Jesus grandfather is Imran (Amram in Hebrew) when that's Moses's father. Mary's dad was named Joachim.
Samain is still a thing here in Spain, it’s a folk festivity in towns. Children dress up in medieval costumes and there are barbecues. It’s quite fun ☺️
As an older Englishman I grew up without the American import of trick or treating and dressing up. I find the whole thing harmless and a great time to be a kid like my grandchildren. It’s good natured fun.
This makes me giggle because my 2 daughters are currently at my partner's aunt's house making Halloween treats. She is a Christian who makes a cake and sings "Happy Birthday Dear Jesus" on Christmas UNIRONICALLY. And she's fine with Halloween.
She is very nice person who is very involved with her church AND is accepting of her atheist bisexual nephew and his atheist gay transgender husband.
You can be a Christian or any kind of theist and still enjoy the mostly secularized celebration that is modern Halloween.
I love her 🥹
My dad and step-mom were and are fundamentalist evangelical Christians. While some weirdos in the church made a big deal about Halloween, they were always fine with decorating, handing out candy, and letting us all go out. Even they rolled their eyes at these everything is satan types.
THIS is the way to do Christianity
If all Christians were like that, l would have absolutely no problem with them.
@@michellebrown4903 exactly
A Samhain story about Fionn mac Cumhaill (Finn McCool) based on stories I grew up with so not actually researching. The High King Conn of the Hundred Battles held a great feast at Tara for six weeks. Petty kings and chiefs came from all corners of Ireland to drink amd feast on wild boar and roasted wolf, to listen to the music of the harp amd to stories of old. Sitting at the head of the table, Conn declared "Let the feasting begin and remember, from now until the end, none may draw a weapon no matter what quarrels you had last week or last year."
The feast of Samhain was always special for this is the time when the passage between our world and the Otherworld and when the Sidhe (pronounced "Shee", means fairies) crossed over. One Sidhe, a goblin called Ailléan of the Flaming Breath, came to Tara to play music and lull everyone to sleep and burn Tara to the ground for nine years.
On the eve of Samhain, Foinn mac Cumhaill came to Tara seeking to join the Fianna. His father previously served Conn as head of the Fianna until his death at the hands of Goll mac Morna. Fionn pledged to the king that he will kill Ailléan before he can burn down Tara again, in exchange for leading the Fianna as his father once did.
As night fell, he noticed something in the foggy dew and a sidhe perched itself on a rock just outside of Tara. He pulled out a silver flute and began playing his music, as Fionn felt himself falling asleep. With whatever strength he could muster, he took his spear and stabbed himself in the face with it. Now fully invigorated, he saw Ailléan put his flute away and open his mouth. A huge flame shot out and began snaking its way towards the palace, but Fionn ripped off his cloak and smothered it. Then he turned his attention towards Ailléan and ran after him.
Just before the goblin could escape to his rath, Fionn caught up with him, cut off his head and presented it to the High King and all the warriors to bear witness. As promised, Fionn was rewarded with the leadership of the Fianna, and Goll mac Morna willingly stepped down, acknowledging Fionn's bravery.
Fun fact: Part of the myths about Fionn mac Cumhaill is that he was raised by Bodhmall (Druid Mum) and her partner Liath Luachra (Warrior Mum), but the tales don't really go into their relationship so feel free to read as much or as little into it as you want
@@irishdc9523 fionn mac cumhaill had a dad so not 2 mams. And homosexuality was tolerated but weren't considered a family
I learned my love of Halloween from my very sincere Christian mother, who ALWAYS dressed as a pirate and went with me door to door or answered our door in costume.
"-Avoid the apperance of Evil." said the snaggletoothed hobo into his phone as he skulked in the shade under the trees.
I'm an old atheist guy who tends to stumble on to atheistic outlets for the heck of it. I like your Yt channel, Emma, because you're quite informative and your interests tend to coincide with my own. But, I also come here because you're an informed and interesting person whose quirky sense of humour makes me lol every time. Thank you very much for that. I appreciate a good chuckle ☮
A CND symbol? Yes, you are old.
you might like my channel :)
So I remember when I was in elementary school (that's grades 1 to 5) there was this kid that was a friend of mine named Dylan. Dylan went to this church that was up the road from where I lived called "Victorious Life". His mother ran a dance studio called "Song And Dance". I remember asking him what he was going to be dressing as for Halloween one year. He straight looked at me stone faced and said "Halloween is the devil's birthday.". Poor Dylan was the only kid in the entire school that wasn't allowed to dress for Halloween. I remember his mother like made him wear a red ribbon because instead of Halloween he got to celebrate some shit like "bicycle safety week" or something. Poor kid. This was the early nineties and was the first time I'd ever heard a religious person rail against Halloween.
Oh no! Poor kid! I hope he did not become an ax- murderer! Really, there is something very evil about stopping kids having fun!
@@eric2500 It's funny how letting our kids pretend to be axe murderers when their young helps prevent them from becoming ACTUAL axe murderers isn't it? I haven't seen him in decades but I hope he turned out alright as well.
With satanic panic stupidity making a come back as of late, your content is more than important Emma. Thank you!
Never left, just changed shape. Now it begins with the letter Q.
When some of us mentioned how it wouldn't hurt for some things of the past to come back, we meant forms of fashion not the 80's satanic panic
@@warped_rider I thing the "Q movement" is more devilish and possessed/cursed than anything else.
@@warped_rider Fair point lol. I guess I just noticed it less about 20 years ago.
@@HasanUnknown You muslims also believe if your children leave your backwater faith, you have to kill them. [Quran:- 7:1-15]. You also believe that your god is 'good' despite mass rape and genocide, which your faithful continue to perpetuate to this day. Your holy book demands bloodshed, and ascribes hate to people you've never met. Your 'god' is an evil farce, made up by a man who had sex with his children (Mohammed your prophet is a sodomite and paedophile, as proven by his own marriage records). Why would any reasonable person worship your evil god? Why would any of us respect your child rapist prophet? Why should you get anything but well deserved disgust for the inhumanity of your evil religion?
I already thought very highly of you for your sense of humor, your intellect, and your just all over cute appearance but now I know you love Halloween as well! I am a Pagan. Every year I look forward to just having a good time with my family reflecting on those who have passed, dressing up, decorating the house and making fun/weird spooky themed treats! I must be a disappointment to this man because there is no sacrifices involved in my family fun of this holiday. 🧛♀🎃👻🔮
If you watch her hand motions carefully she spells out "damned be thy souls" in ancient Hebrew script. This is even more terrifying when you realize she is clearly wearing mixed fabrics and most likely had shellfish for dinner.
Growing up in the ancient 80's and 90's, Turnips where still used for lanterns (not an easy thing to hollow out) and look so much creepier when they slowly rot
When I was a little jehovah's witness kid, I would get so broken hearted this time of year because all I wanted was to take part in all the Halloween events
The Christian Bible never mentions any vampire, but does tell a pretty detailed story about a zombie🤣🤣
And dressing up as a nazi or the tax man is what I consider an appearance of evil lol
New sub, by the way. How the algorithm led you to me is beyond me but I certainly enjoyed my first video! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!
Devil worship is the most moral form of worship that could come from reading the Bible. The main character of that book is literally evil, so I totally support following its opponent.
I've always said that if you read the Bible with your brain turned on God is the bad guy.
Matthew 5.9 "Blissful are the peacemakers,
since they will be called "sons of God."
No sir, You have a demon and it breaks my heart knowing that none of you can see the deception you brought yourself in.
Hail Satan
@@HallowedLife ehhhhh gross. lol
@@HallowedLife Hey. You're the one worshipping the guy that demands human sacrifices. If you got to kill something to be in a guy's good graces, that's probably not a very good guy.
I have a religious aunt that says it’s the devils Holiday. On Halloween her and all her church friends put out signs on their house saying “we do not celebrate Halloween, this is the house of the Lord” 😅
One of my old Churches did something called Awana it was a sort of primary school youth group program which did something called "trunk or treating" on Halloween, which basically meant that everyone dressed up as *Bible characters*, and got candy from the *trunks* of parents cars in the Church parking lot, it was as depressing and boring as you'd think. *Except* for the fact that my dad has a good sense of humor and he and my mom would make costumes that were (loosely) inspired by Bible stories like one year they sent me as a "mummy" that was *supposedly* Lazarus in his burial shroud, after Jesus resurrected him, another year my Dad sent my sister there in a long cardboard box like costume complete with inch markings costume with prop money bags (the rich young ruler) These shenanigans irritated the Awana people to high hell, and looking back on it, it's still funny as shit to me.
@@davidallamericananarchist9220 Oh yeah I vaguely remember watching a video about the trunk or treating event. Perhaps they sensed that the kids wouldn't be able to resist Halloween and that they had to distract them with their own version.
we call those houses "egg targets."
@@davidallamericananarchist9220 We had trunk or treating where I grew up but it arose more as a response to the hysteria around all the (often fake) news stories about candy being tampered with. The two churches in town would host them, but they didn't have any real restrictions on people dressing up or anything like that. It was billed as a safe environment for kids to interact and show off costumes and get candy. They kept it light hearted and community focused, which is astonishing because they were NOT like that when it came to Christmas and whatnot lol.
Of course I actually trick or treated as a kid and had a lot of fun getting dropped off and rushing between yards. Kept going out until my teens when I started driving and taking my younger siblings to do it. Wandering around town, planning out the best route based on how late you managed to get out. It's far less common these days to have that level of freedom on Halloween, in the states anyway.
@@kylegonewild "Trunk or treating" was sooo popular with the local church groups in my mostly deep red small home town (Tehachapi CA.) That the city itself hosted it's own trunk or treat in the downtown area, it almost wrecked Halloween, except for the fact that we always had a few fursuiters in the area, (Tehachapi is an aerospace industry hub) and they were always the nicest and funniest people there...
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he was not Emma.
As an Irish guy that just returned from a pagan Samhain festival I can confirm there were no child sacrifices.. Public transport was a joke though
As a CR, when he said "Sam Wayne" I nearly feckin' died
"Is that you Sam Wayne? Is this me?"
Halloween is my baby sister's favorite holiday. This year will be her one year wedding anniversary as well. She got married in an old castle outside of Cleveland, OH. We had a family friend playing "This is Halloween" on an acoustic guitar. And yes, I teared up!
That's so sweet. I was born in October, always got called a Halloween baby. And my mom raised me on horror, so I have a soft spot for Halloween.
Wow. So well articulated, Emma! I love modern Halloween; it allows children to explore fears and scary situations in a safe way. It helps children build the confidence they are going to need as adolescents & adults, to process real-world horrors.... Plus the candy. Don't forget about the candy.
"He's a liar. The demon is a liar. He would like to confuse us. He will also mix lies with the truth, to attack us. The attack is a psychological thing, but powerful." -Father Damien Karras, SJ (The Exorcist)
How well that aged and fits just perfectly in describing guys like this.
Being a teacher at a school, you’d surely encounter many things and one of the things that struck me the most is when a student of mine (aged 7) told me out loud after we discussed about Halloween is that he won’t celebrate Halloween because it’s devil’s festival. We do decorate our school with Halloween deco but this kid isn’t willing to look at Halloween deco because he’s “Christian”. Idk what they feed him but it’s sad. I explained that it’s not about worshiping satan, it’s about pagan and yes a child couldn’t tell change his mind immediately of course if it’s deep rooted belief. I couldn’t celebrate it as a child too since my parents are muslims and we get all the “satan” worshipping moment, so I wish it’d be nice to celebrate all sorts of things without being deemed as sinful or whatsoever it is especially for kids…like really why can’t they let kids have fun?
Some people think fun will somehow harm an all-powerful creator of a trillion galaxies. Remember, reality is of no consequence when you feel you have a god on your side.
When God is your Father, you are willing to bring honor to His name in this one life He has given in anyway. The opinions of man are nothing to compared to a Father who says "Be Holy for I am Holy." The Holy Spirit of God in a person will make them Holy. An evil spirit will make people evil and allow compromise with wickedness a small easy thing. Yes sin is easy but not small. Will you drink a glass of water with 10 drops of poison? What about 1 drop? So proud to justify self.
Jesus is the Son of God who is the standard of exceptance into the presence of God.
@@MetalArms16212 Jesus is the most immoral character in all of fiction, even worse than his bloodthirsty and incredibly stupid father.
@@rembrandt972ify so you as a mere mortal and holding God who is beyond cosmic level in contempt? 🤔 ok see how that will play out for you bud. The Sin of pride makes us very stupid. "God "I" (have the audacity to counsel You) believe you have done evil things bur don't judge me for wicked things I have done cause I'm a good person. Lol. Yeeeee!!!
@@MetalArms16212 Pride is a virtue, not a fault. What makes you stupid is not pride or sin but the insistence on ignoring evidence which conflicts with your evil beliefs. Try thinking for yourself for once. You will never regret it.
Little kids dressing up as Iron Man and eating bite sized Milky Way bars is a “satanic ritual of child sacrifice”
Sure, dude. Sounds legit.
I mean, Milky Way bars are kind of evil, so there’s that.
@@seandevine3695 fair point, I suppose
@@seandevine3695 a milky way bar once tried to murder me when I was but a wee lad, the git.
Samhain is very important to me, for many reasons. I have celebrated with friends and also on my own. At no point are children being sacrificed. Tell me you don't do your research without telling me you don't do your research. 😑 I'm so tired of hearing everything is devil worship, and that we sacrifice children. I am wiccan, and it just hurts to see something that is personal and beautiful to me and others be demonized by religious zealots that refuse to educate themselves. So thank you so much for touching on this and providing lol kns to learn more. Maybe also say I absolutely love your sweater? 🦇💕
From what I learnt, Samhain was the night when the veil that divided the world of the living and the realm of ghosts were thinnest and vengeful spirits would roam the land looking for victims and the good spirits of the ancestors would visit the family house, that's why the family would leave offerings of food and mead by the hearth to appease them.
There are so many versions, but this was the one I came across more often.
*was thinnest. Gosh, my English teacher would murder me if she read such gross grammar mistake. Sorry, English is not my native language.
_"Witches and devils and killers! Oh, My!"_ A perfect example of the straw man argument.
_"Some people without brains do an aweful lot of talking... Don't they?"_ A brillient example of Scarecrow Wisdom (The Wizard of Oz).
I've always thought (as an atheist) is that Halloween is a day to grow as a person by confronting and mocking our fears
There ya go! Can I say Gods Bless? Without offense? You can still be an atheist, of course! _ a friendly Neo Pagan.
Yah no My family is heavily religious and I am a trans bisexual atheist. When my family finally split my mom ran away from the religion (still doesn't accept lgbtq ppl). Now I am 16 and I'm celebrating my first Halloween!! I am super excited.
Congratulations! May you keep celebrating Halloween for many years to come.
Have a great time and many more to come!
I was Christian, but now I'm into New-Thought and I empathize with wiccans and pagans. Bless-ed Be!
I also love tarot cards... just saying 😶
thanks for making funny videos Emma I was in hospital today for very severe panic attack and your videos help me keep calm after
I was never allowed to celebrate Halloween while being raised in a fundie household and now Halloween is my favorite holiday. The determination to misunderstand and vilify anything that isn't "us" in christian circles is truly awful
It's pagan not devil wordhip.
@@noshoes1588 yeah I think the whole thing of the church used to be "if you do anything God didn't told you to it's worshipping the devil"
@@Lonely_Raven_666 I truly don't understand why Christians haven't been able to pick up on the fact that the Bible was written by dudes over two thousand years ago. Not prophets... Not holy people.. just regular dudes. That's why it condones slavery and killing your own children and stoning women and all sorts of other fun things! If it was truly "the word of God", the book wouldn't be SO OBVIOUSLY pro male and anti everybody else. "What? No way, I'm totally allowed to kill people that don't look like me indiscriminately and I'm totally allowed to own other human beings, because it says so in the Bible itself! That's the word of God!"
I guess I'm just assuming that most people have a working brain, which is giving way too much credit to Trumpers and QAnon wackos.
Exactly it pre dates the fairy tale book by millenia.
For them that synonymous.
Just got out of a relationship with a MAGA fundie. EVERYTHING not Jesus is Satan.
"Halloween is SATANIC!!" .. . Says the guy with the shaved head and goat beard! LMAO!!
We didn't see his feet. I'm sure there's hooves at the end his legs😂😂😂
Emma!!
I LOVE Halloween. Live for it. It was my late wife's second favorite. We actually had a Halloween themed wedding on Oct 13 2019. I miss her very much every day, and now around Halloween i dress up her Memorial in my Living Room with some extra spooky to match the Corpse Bride Pops she loved.
Satan said: "No, she's not my girl, but I love her like a daughter."
Christians having a moral panic over Halloween is kind of amusing.
The origin of Halloween is specifically a Christian holiday. It's a contraction of All Hallows' Evening, and it basically honours all the saints (or "hallows" or "holy persons") of the Church. However the actual meaning varies between denominations - for example the Lutherans consider all Christians to be saints, so the day is more generally in honour of the dead rather than just specific Saints.
Now the modern Halloween has more in common with the Celtic pagan festival of Samhain, it just has the Christian name, but there's nothing satanic about it - pagans didn't believe in Satan. It would be much more accurate to say that Abrahamic religions are Satanic, because the concept of Satan originates from Judaism and is them refined (or corrupted) in both Christianity and Islam to represent evil (though the original concept was not so single-minded).
In America, and specifically Mexico, the Halloween also coincides with the Day of the Dead ( Día de los Muertos), which is probably an amalgamation of Christian Halloween, Celtic pagan traditions from Iberian peninsula, and some fairly modern interpretations of Aztec identity.
There's nothing new about pagan traditions intermixing with Christian holidays. The Germanic people of Europe had this pretty big tradition of a Midwinter festival called Yule or Yuletide. Romans had a similarly timed festival called Saturnalia, and the Celtic people just celebrated the Winter Solstice as such. This meant that basically everywhere in the Roman Empire, there was a significant celebration timed at the shortest day of the year. In order to introduce Christianity to the Romans, Celts and Germans of the Empire as the new state religion, the early church leaders figured they might as well invent a Christian holiday to be celebrated at around that date, and that's how Christmas was born.
Essentially, Christmas celebration was just a successful rebranding of Yule/Saturnalia/other associated Midwinter festivals, which were definitely paganic in their origin and many of the Christmas traditions are basically adaptations of pagan traditions associated with Yule and Saturnalia. And while the Christian holiday of Christmas is ostensibly celebrated to honour the birth of Christ, the actual birthdate of the hypothetical person called Jesus of Nazareth had nothing to do with December 25th.
But I don't see a lot of Christians having a huge moral panic about Christmas being a Satanic devil worship festival.
I worked TV and got SA'd and when I reported it to the management I got sacked.
Organized Religion is on it's way out. And it needs to go!
Years ago there was a house in my neighborhood that would hand out religious pamphlets on Halloween. They would literally sit outside with Christian music playing and if you made the mistake of stopping at their yard they would thrust the pamphlet into your hand. Needless to say their house got TPed. They did manage to kill the Halloween spirit in our area for a while as people didn't want to go to the neighborhood with /those/ people bringing everyone down. Recently Halloween has been making a comeback as new people moved in and I think that family moved out.
It's also been helpful to assist adopters to find my house as I can tell them "We're the house the looks like a spooky cemetery, you'll want to hang a right at the skeleton army and we're a few down from the huge Nightmare Before Christmas display."
There was a family down the street from us who did similar proselytizing during trick-or-treat one year. They handed out pencil sets and “Chick Tracts” that accused Wiccans of “recruiting” kids for Satan, having animal sacrifices, and worshipping Satan on Halloween (which we all know is absolute HORSE HOCKEY!). Needless to say, those stupid tracts hit the recycling bin as soon as my kids got home, especially since WE’RE Wiccans!
Oh, and I heard several days later that the local teenagers got together that night and egged the holy snot out of the place as retribution! That family moved two years later, and they are NOT missed!
Proverbs 8:36 - But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
@@believestthouthis7 Sense: 1-10 - Quoting nonsense out of an ancient book that was plagiarised from much earlier cultures only makes the quoter look lazy and stupid
@@nickryan3417
1 Corinthians 1:18
[18]For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
The truth is foolishness to those that don't believe it.
@@believestthouthis7 Foolishness is whimsically spouting nonsense snippets out of a book written by man as if they have any value other to make you look stupid. Because that's all they do. You are not looking pious, nor wise, nor clever... you just look silly. I can quote dumb things from your bible too:
Numbers 22:28
Then the Lord opened the donkey’s mouth, and it said to Balaam, “What have I done to you to make you beat me these three times?”
There you go, I've now proved my point and shown you to be a donkey. I know this is true because I quoted a bit of the bible at you.
Ironically the Trick Or Treating on Halloween was started by the puritan pilgrims who went to North America, outside of North America traditional the closest thing to Trick or Treating was Guising, which is associated with All Saints Day, not Halloween.
Actually not true. Dressing up as spirits so they wouldn't haunt you was during the celtic times. And in the 9th century in celtic Ireland is where trick or treating came from
People of whatever faith should be very suspicious of ANYONE who tries to stop people having fun. Kinda evil.
Especially children - stopping children having fun really is evil!
My parents never took me trick or treating, because they also thought that "all hallows eve" was satanic. Of course, that was during the satanic panic of the 90s.
I am shocked! I have never heard anything like that before!
Well - it'll be worth a laugh, if nothing else. I wonder if he realizes where most Christmas traditions come from?
My kids did some early trick-or-treating at a local mall today. One dressed up as Woody and another dressed up as Jessie from Toy Story. Not once did they become possessed by any demons. We're still a ways away from the real Halloween. Maybe it'll happen next week.
Eclectic pagan here, loved the video as always. And great pronunciation of Samhain. It was probably a mixture of him only having heard the word a few times and his accent. It’s not often that i come across people who know how to pronounce it straight away.
Also it’s hilarious to me that he’s so mad about us just having fun. Even back years and years ago. Sadly I can’t yet be open about being a pagan, but when I can, I’m finding fellow pagans to be able to have a bondfire with.
I just found this channel. I love how smart the young people are. We may finally have a generation of independent thinkers.
I had a very disturbing encounter on a Gothic/Wave/EBM Halloween Party in a deeply catholic state of my home country.
My costume was an Undead Catholic Priest and we were having tons of fun with who-knows-what-else.
One young woman came to me and I thought she wanted to dance and she said: "Ego te absolvo!" which confused me a lot.
Asking her what she said, because latin isn't too common, she said "I forgive you in the name of Christ" and started asking whether I wanted to ridicule the church and its priests.
"What you people here are doing is very wrong, so many people are dressing up as slutty nuns, you and many others are making a mockery of it..."
Why of all places does a fundamental christian choose a "Dark Halloween Party" as her go-to on a Saturday night?
Wasn't the line of hundreds of Victorian Vampires, Batcave Punks etc. a dead give-away this is not her kinda place?
Or did she spontaneously decide this is part of her mission where she has to make everybody in the place repent whilst people are moshing out to "Should I stay or should I go?".
Here's a Catholic themed costume you will enjoy. It was the year Pope John Paul the first died after only one month. There was a party at that lovely Jesuit institution; Georgetown University. Seven guys borrowed a stretcher from the med school, six of them dressed as cardinals (not the bird), the seventh as the dead pope. The hall went dark, a spotlight shone on the entrance, and funeral music played as the pall bearers made their entrance.
You had me at slutty nuns. Look, I want to Catholic school for 8 years, and I can honestly say 99.999% of the nuns I saw would have been revolting as slutty nuns, BUT there was one of them, a young novice. Well now ....
By some miracle (haha) I was able to bring my intensely Catholic conservative mother to the goth club with me and she loved it XD There were so many things there that she might have objected to on religious grounds, but she didn't notice them because she was having too much fun, lol
Emma, you're not the Devil, you're the adorable Little Duck Queen.
The Halloween Tree is a great little family friendly video that goes over the origin of several things associated with halloween if not halloween directly. Highly recommend.
I had to grow up with this shit. All my friends went to go trick or treating, and I had to stay home, no costumes, no candy, no fun. Well, my parents' plan backfired because I now celebrate Halloween 365 days a year!!!
All this devil worship talk just makes me want to listen to Behemoth’s new album for the hundredth time.
How can Behemoth be considered Satanic - the Bible clearly labels them as Gods creation (and 'grass' probably does feature in their diet!).
@@obscureinception8302 Satan is gods creation and he’s pretty satanic. Jokes aside, I’m not in the band so I can’t answer that.
I have an aunt who has sorta similar beliefs. She thinks anything that is not Cristian is the devil. It's to the point where she once asked my mom (who is Buddhist) not to prey for her or send good thoughts her waybecause she didn't want my mom preying to demons and Satan for her.
What a loon
I have a grandma like this, too. Anything not christian is the devil/satanic to her. & she also was so upset with my mom for learning about Buddhism & becoming a yoga teacher. We got a lot of “I’m worried about your soul” conversations from her. When I was in middle school I asked her “aren’t satanists technically Christian’s, since satan is only from christianity?” She hasn’t brought up religion to me ever since
Pray*
@@lindseystein9676 Satanists aren't Christians because you need to believe that Jesus is the Messiah to be a Christian and Satanists don't do that.
@@tarmairon431 but Christianity is the only religion to revere (even if negatively) Satan, so Satanism had to have grown out of Christianity
"We should all be making turnip jack-o-lanterns" -Emma Thorne
Respectfully... No we shouldn't Emma. Traditional turnip jack-o-lanterns are just nightmare faces. the pumpkin gourds were an improvement
I celebrate Samhain in the fall and Yule in the winter. The devil never comes into play at any time.
I loved working Halloween when I was a cop. I had a huge tub in the passenger seat filled with candy. I'd mess with the kids and have them grab a bunch of candy. I'd give out so much candy. It was fun and the kids loved it.
Really enjoyed "The Birth of Satan: Tracing the Devil's Biblical Roots" by Wray and Mobley. Also "The Devil, A Very Short Introduction" by Darrien Oldridge.
as an irish person this is hilarious
Halloween is one of my favorite Holidays. I think it was better when I was young.
Watching this again, in honour of being told, by some in-laws, that I was a devil worshipper for preferring Halloween to Christmas.
Children can be helped to face and deal with their fears by pretending to be scary, and participating in the communal effort to scare away the unfriendly influences that are trying to crowd through the thin barrier and allow the beloved dead to come through.
Halloween was the Day between the Years in the Celtic Culture. It was the Day to remember the Ones who Died this year. The Celts were "partying" with Ancestors to have Luck in the following Year.
The fact that religious fundamentalists hate Halloween is a pro in my book. I like the fact it’s sacrilegious, it makes it more fun that way.
Also, by some metrics Halloween is actually a four day holiday. October 30th is Mischief Night, The Festival of Sowen, the holiday Halloween originates from started on October 31st, and continued onto November 1st, and The Day of The Dead is November 2nd.
Which is interesting because in germany November 1st is a christian holiday called Allerheiligen", probably something like All Saints Day
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@@Soapy-chan_old Halloween is based on "all saints day".
It is really about the Taurid Stream that bombarded us -13,000 years ago and other times. The radiant is in the Constellation of Taurus, more specifically the Pleiades, and it has a tuft tail, cloven hooves, and horns, it is coincident. It is a meteor stream nothing more, we anthropomorphized the phenomena. From the Deep Ocean Above
All Saints Day, All Hallows Eve, Day of the Dead, Harvest Festivals, Samhain, and more. The days as we pass from October to November have a long, varied history of celebrations. It's a nice time of the year, as we transition to colder weather in the Northern Hemisphere, but before it gets into Winter proper. Tends to be the end of harvest season too in a lot of areas. I love this time of the year.
Every colorful event happening between October 1st and March 1st that cheers people up has a star in my book. Copenhagen is cold, dark, rainy, boring so a bright light in a pumpkin brings a smile on my face.