Hate to be the one to bring disappointment, but Valentine's day is of pagan origin. I won't go into it on this thread, but most holidays we celebrate are of pagan origin. Remeber several years ago, even the Catholic Church desainted (is there such a word?) him.

I gathered a lot of information about Halloween. This is the one holiday which has not been connected in any way with Christianity even remotely. All Saints Day is November 1.

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Linda

I thought that October 31st used to be called All Saints Eve which would make sense since Nov 1st is All Saints Day.

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Daryl

I guess what I should say is that while Catholic literature makes a difference between halloween and All Saints Day, separating the two, neither one is based even remotely on any Biblical event. For example, Christmas is supposed to celebrate the birth of Christ, Easter is supposed to celebrate the resurrection of Christ; both are biblical events. I know that Catholics celebrate other holidays, such as the assumption of Mary which are based on pagan holidays, and have no basis in any biblical event. However, they are not majoy national holidays, at least in the US, as Christmas and Easter are.

Actually, as I found, the Celts' day began at sunset (wonder where they got that?) thus, the first day of winter was actually November 1, which for them began on October 31 at sunset. Their holiday was in honor of the dead: the Catholic church borrowed the holiday, renamed it, changed the dead to dead saints, thus "baptizing" the pagan holiday and seemingly making it Christian.

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Linda

[This message has been edited by Linda Sutton (edited October 23, 2000).]

How does going door to door, in your best church clothes giving a very decoratively wrapped pack with Patriarchs and Prophets, Desire of Ages, Great Controversy sound with a lot of great websites written in the inside of the front cover with indelible ink, plus phone # & e-mail?

Knock on the door and say "here's your treat."

Romans 12:21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

After all folks the evil ones love to take an innocent date on the calendar and consecrate it to their evils and themselves. Created beings are not allowed take something and make it holy or hallowed unto them selves in a way that suggests that they are the creator/owner of that day or thing in the divine sense.

So for those who wish to, give folks these written testimonies from the true creator and let Him speak for Himself. Remember my pre-SDA background - this probably isn't just a cute suggestion.

Thank you Linda for that report on Halloween. I received this in my email news box today so thought I would post it here.
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French Christians don't want the latest American import: Halloween. The dark holiday was introduced into France a few years ago to help increase fall department store business, but Christians consider it a satanic festival that could traumatize
children and endanger older people, Reuters reported.

Halloween is a "veritable resurgence of druidical beliefs," the Protestant Evangelical Committee for Human Dignity reported. All of France should be alarmed that Oct. 31, a day dear to fans of witchcraft, will be observed in public schools, because psychologists have found that the holiday can harm children
psychologically, it said. Society "must not focus its attention on the death cult that surrounds Halloween," the group said.
Catholics in the resort town of Saint Raphael have organized a protest against the holiday, according to Reuters.

by the Editors of ReligionToday

Let's see...
Sunday is a pagan day for worshipping the sun god.
Monday is a pagan day for worshipping the mood god.
Tuesday is... ... ... ...
But, I see no point in dressing in a costume and acting like an immature idiot. And around this town it's not safe to trick'er treat anyway. So I don't have to buy carob chips...

The Bible says that we shouldn't even mention the name of a pagan god. This is probably why early Adventist publications used to put "The Third Day" on their mastheads.

Does this mean I shouldn't say "Prayer Meeting will be held at Leamington church this Tuesday evening at 7:30pm after the sun goes down."

An announcement like that would be wrong on 3 accounts: 1)Pagan god mentioned in church (Tuesday); 2)It's really early Wednesday (oops) 4th day if we're using Biblical reckoning and 3)Our sun doesn't "go down" the earth simply revolves and blocks it from our sight--13 minutes after the real sunset time if you take into account the time it take light to travel 93,621.24 million miles from Sol (oops).

I'm not really making fun. Our pioneers were brave enough to have a conviction on this.

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Pastor Andrew