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Should Christians Celebrate Halloween - The Dark Origin Of This Modern Holiday · Gil I Am

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  Speaker 1: It's that time of year again where everyone's gonna argue
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  Speaker 1: over Halloween.
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  Speaker 2: Should we dress our kids up? Should we not?
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  Speaker 1: One Christian camp says, Halloween's fine, there's nothing wrong with it.
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  Speaker 1: Dress your kids up as whatever, take them trigger treating,
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  Speaker 1: have your trigger retreats, have your Halloween celebrations at church.
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  Speaker 2: The other side says, no, there's.
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  Speaker 1: Sinister occult practices, darkness happening. We shouldn't be celebrating darkness.
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  Speaker 1: We shouldn't be glorifying it. So I want to come
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  Speaker 1: in as a voice of reason and talk all about Halloween.
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  Speaker 2: I want to talk about what the History.
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  Speaker 1: Channel has to say a secular obviously company. I want
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  Speaker 1: to talk about what Bible Info has to say about it.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about trigger treating, and then I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: give you five quick, simple reasons why I do not
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  Speaker 1: celebrate Halloween. My kids, my family, we do not celebrate Halloween.
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  Speaker 1: So we're gonna do all things Halloween in this video,
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  Speaker 1: and then you can make your decision at the end.
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  Speaker 1: Is this something you or your family should celebrate. This
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  Speaker 1: is gonna be interesting. One stay tuned. Okay, So we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna first look at the History Channel's article on saw Win.
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  Speaker 2: Some call it sam Hayn.
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  Speaker 1: It's pronounced saw Win because this is not a Christian publication,
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  Speaker 1: so I want to show you that even from a
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  Speaker 1: non Christian perspective, Halloween or what Halloween is, So sam
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  Speaker 1: Hayne a Gaelic word pronounced saw wins a pagan religious
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  Speaker 1: festival originating from an ancient Celtic spiritual tradition, so off
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  Speaker 1: the bat here at spiritual. It is usually celebrated from
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  Speaker 1: October thirty first to November one to welcome in the
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  Speaker 1: harvest and usher in the dark half of the year.
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  Speaker 1: Celebrants believe that the barriers between the physical world and
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  Speaker 1: the spirit world break down during saw Win, allowing more
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  Speaker 1: interaction between humans and denizens of the other world, which
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  Speaker 1: is aka spirits. So already it's like this is not
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  Speaker 1: a Christian publication here.
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  Speaker 2: Ancient Celts.
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  Speaker 1: Celts marked saw Win as the most significant of the
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  Speaker 1: four quarterly fire festivals, taking place at the midpoint between
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  Speaker 1: the fall equinox and the winter solstice. During the first
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  Speaker 1: time during this time of year, hearth fires and family
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  Speaker 1: homes were left to burn out while the harvest was gathered.
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  Speaker 1: After the harvest work was complete, celebrants joined the druid
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  Speaker 1: priest to light a community fire using will that would
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  Speaker 1: cause friction and spark flames. The will was considered a
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  Speaker 1: representation of the sun and used along with prayers. Cattle
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  Speaker 1: were sacrificed and participants took a flame from the communal
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  Speaker 1: bonfire back to their homes to relight the hearth. Early
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  Speaker 1: texts present Sawwin as a mandatory celebration lasting three days
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  Speaker 1: and three nights, where the community was required to show
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  Speaker 1: themselves to local kings and chief stains. Failure to participate
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  Speaker 1: was believed to result in punishment from the gods, usually
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  Speaker 1: in illness or death.
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  Speaker 2: This is what we celebrate as Halloween. This is where
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  Speaker 2: it originated.
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  Speaker 1: There was also a military aspect to Slwyn in Ireland,
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  Speaker 1: with holiday thrones prepared for commanders of soldiers. Anyone who
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  Speaker 1: committed a crime or used their weapons during the celebration
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  Speaker 1: faced the death sentence. Some documents mentioned six days of
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  Speaker 1: drinking alcohol to excess, typically meet or beer, along with.
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  Speaker 2: Gluttonous feats feasts.
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  Speaker 1: Because the Celts believe that the barrier between the world
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  Speaker 1: was breachable during Salwin, they prepared offerings that were left
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  Speaker 1: outside villages and fields for fairies or sids, which are spirits.
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  Speaker 1: Expected that the ancestors might cross over during the time
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  Speaker 1: as well, the Celts would dress as animals and monsters,
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  Speaker 1: so here we see dressing up so that fairies were
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  Speaker 1: not tempted to kidnap them. Some specific monsters were associated
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  Speaker 1: with mythology surrounding Sawin, including a shape shifting creature called
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  Speaker 1: Puca that receives harvest offerings from the field. The Lady
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  Speaker 1: Gwynn is a headless women dressed in two white chases
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  Speaker 1: night wanderers and accompanied by a black pig. The Duela
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  Speaker 1: Hunts sometimes appeared as impish creatures, sometimes headless men on
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  Speaker 1: horses who carried their heads riding flame eyed horses. Their
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  Speaker 1: appearance was a death omen to anyone that encountered them.
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  Speaker 1: Again not Christian here, Hey, this is just secular publication
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  Speaker 1: History channel. You could already see how demonic all of
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  Speaker 1: this is. A group of hunters known as slug or
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  Speaker 1: fairy hosts might also haunt Sawwin and kidnap people. Similar
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  Speaker 1: are the slaw who had come from west to enter
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  Speaker 1: horses and still souls. One of the most popular Slowin
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  Speaker 1: stories told her in the festival was the Second Battle
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  Speaker 1: of mag ted, which portrays a final inflict. Okay, more
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  Speaker 1: demonic stuff, more demonic stuff. As the Middle Ages progressed,
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  Speaker 1: so did the celebrations of the fire festivals. Bonfires as
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  Speaker 1: Sam sam Ganagan's I don't even know say half of these,
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  Speaker 1: which are more personal saw wind fires near the farms
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  Speaker 1: became Astrisian purpose, purportedly to protect families from fairies and witches.
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  Speaker 1: Carved turnips called jack o' lanterns began to appear, attached
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  Speaker 1: by strings to sticks and embedded with coal. Later, Irish
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  Speaker 1: traditions switched to pumpkins and Wales's mentoss burning wood at
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  Speaker 1: each other in violent games to set off fireworks, and
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  Speaker 1: Northern England men paraded with noise makers and then talks
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  Speaker 1: about dumb Supper, which children would play games to entertain
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  Speaker 1: the dead while adults would update the dead on the
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  Speaker 1: past year's news. That night, doors and windows might be
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  Speaker 1: left open for the dead to come in and eat
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  Speaker 1: cakes that had been left for them. Christian saw Win.
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  Speaker 1: As Christianity gained foothold in pagan communities, church leaders attempted
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  Speaker 1: to reframe saw Win as a Christian celebration. So here
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  Speaker 1: we seem taking a pagan practice and reframing it. The
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  Speaker 1: first a temp was by Pope Boniface in the fifth century.
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  Speaker 1: He moved the celebration in May thirteenth and specified it
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  Speaker 1: as a day of celebrating saints and martyrs. The fire
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  Speaker 1: festivals of October November, however, did not end with this decree.
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  Speaker 1: In the ninth century, Pope Gregory moved the celebration back
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  Speaker 1: to the time of the fire festivals, but declared it
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  Speaker 1: All Saints Day on November first. All Souls Day would
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  Speaker 1: follow on November two. Okay, this is where it merged
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  Speaker 1: with Halloween. Neither new holiday did away with pagan aspects
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  Speaker 1: of the celebration. October their to first became known as
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  Speaker 1: All Hello's Eve or Halloween, and contained much of the
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  Speaker 1: traditional pagan practices before adopting it in the nineteenth century
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  Speaker 1: America through Irish immigrants bringing their traditions across the ocean.
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  Speaker 2: Trick or treat.
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  Speaker 1: Trick or Treat is said to have been derived from
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  Speaker 1: ancient Irish and Scottish practices and the nights leading up
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  Speaker 1: to Salwyn. In Ireland, mumming was the practice of putting
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  Speaker 1: on costumes, going door to door and singing songs to
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  Speaker 1: the dead. Cakes were given as payment. Halloween pranks were
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  Speaker 1: also traditioned in Sawwyn, though in the ancient celebration, tricks
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  Speaker 1: were blamed blamed on fairies. I don't know why I'm
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  Speaker 1: getting so tongue twisted with all these words Wicka and Solwyn.
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  Speaker 1: A broad revival of Salwin resembling its traditional pagan form,
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  Speaker 1: began in the nineteen eighties with the growing popularity of
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  Speaker 1: Wicca Wicks. Celebration of Saulwin takes on many forms, from
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  Speaker 1: the traditional fire ceremonies to celebrations that embrace many aspects
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  Speaker 1: of modern Halloween, as well as activities related to honoring
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  Speaker 1: nature or ancestors. Wickens look at Salwyn as the passing
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  Speaker 1: of the year and incorporate common Wicked traditions into the
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  Speaker 1: celebration and the Durid tradition. Sawwinn celebrates the dead with
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  Speaker 1: the festival in October thirty first, and usually features a
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  Speaker 1: bonfire and communion communion with the dead. American pagans often
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  Speaker 1: hold music and downt celebrations called the Witch's Ball and proximity.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so here we see complete pagan completely demonic,
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  Speaker 1: all about the dead, spirits, fairies, and somehow you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Catholic Church tried to merge the pope tried to
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  Speaker 1: merge this in and make it All Saints Day, which
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  Speaker 1: what we'd call Halloween. So you already see here from
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  Speaker 1: a second publication, absolutely pagan. So look, let's look at
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  Speaker 1: now a Christian public publication called the Bible Info, and
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  Speaker 1: we'll see what they have to say. Okay, now I
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  Speaker 1: want to look at Bible Info, which we've already talked
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  Speaker 1: about a lot of this, but it's what does Halloween mean?
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  Speaker 2: The word Halloween literally.
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  Speaker 1: Means the evening before All Hollows Day, celebrated on November first.
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  Speaker 1: Halloween is also the short name of All Halloween, All
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  Speaker 1: Hollows Evening, and All Saints Eve, which will celebrate on
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  Speaker 1: October thirty first. The origin and meeting of Halloween derived
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  Speaker 1: from the ancient Celtic harvest festivals, but more recently we
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  Speaker 1: think of Halloween as a night filled with candy, trigger treating,
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  Speaker 1: Pumpkin's ghosts and death. So we already went through the history.
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  Speaker 1: I won't go through all of that. It's very similar
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  Speaker 1: to what we already went through. Should Christians celebrate Halloween?
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  Speaker 1: As a logical thinking person, consider for a moment, that
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  Speaker 1: you're what you're celebrating, and what Halloween is all about?
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  Speaker 1: Is it the holiday uplifting? Is it is Halloween?
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  Speaker 2: Peer? Is it lovely? Praiseworthy of good report?
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  Speaker 1: Philippians four eight says Finally, brethren, whatever things are true,
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  Speaker 1: what are nobile? Whatever things are just? Whatever things are pure?
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  Speaker 1: What every things are lovely? What other things are of
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  Speaker 1: good report? If there's any virtue, and if there is
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  Speaker 1: anything praiseworthy, meditate on these things. Is Halloween based on
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  Speaker 1: godly themes such as peace, freedom, salvation? Or does it
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  Speaker 1: bring to mind fear, oppression, and bondage. So it's a
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  Speaker 1: good question to ask during the celebration this day, are
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  Speaker 1: we thinking of things that are good and pure and
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  Speaker 1: holy and righteous? And the answer is no. Additionally, does
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  Speaker 1: the Bible sanction witchcraft, witches and sorcery. On the contrary,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible makes it clear that these practices are.
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  Speaker 2: An abomination to the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says in the levit Kiss twenty twenty seven
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  Speaker 1: that anyone who practice witchcraft, sooth saying sorcery should be killed.
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  Speaker 1: And then Deuteronomy eighteen nine ads, when you come to
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  Speaker 1: the land which the Lord R God has given you,
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  Speaker 1: you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations.
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  Speaker 1: There shall be no one found among you who practices witchcraft,
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  Speaker 1: or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcery,
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  Speaker 1: or one who conjure spells, or a medium or a spiritus,
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  Speaker 1: or one who calls up the dead. For all of
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  Speaker 1: these things are an abomination to the Lord. So is
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  Speaker 1: it wrong to celebrate Halloween. Let's look at what the
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  Speaker 1: Bible adds to this topic. In Ephesians five to eleven,
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  Speaker 1: have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but
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  Speaker 1: rather expose them. So this text is calling us not
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  Speaker 1: only to have no association, but also to shed light
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  Speaker 1: on these topics around us. As stated earlier, Halloween was
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  Speaker 1: not exposed by the Church for what it was. Rather,
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  Speaker 1: it was incorporated into Church holydays and our Christians responding
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  Speaker 1: in the same way today, as you think about Halloween,
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  Speaker 1: it's origins and what it stands for, what it'd be
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  Speaker 1: best to spend time dwelling upon its themes or shed
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  Speaker 1: light upon the light what lies below the surface of
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  Speaker 1: this holiday celebration. God is calling humanity to follow him
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  Speaker 1: and to come out from among them and separate says
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, do not touch what is unclean, and I'll
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  Speaker 1: receive you that two Corinthians six seventeen. So it's clear
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  Speaker 1: this is an unholy holiday. It's an ungodly holiday. Now
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  Speaker 1: Wikipedia has the similar origins of what I discussed, and
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  Speaker 1: look at what it says on Wikipedia. Bonfires, guysing, mumming,
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  Speaker 1: divination saying, veneration of the dead, feasting, has the day,
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  Speaker 1: you know, all the stuff. Okay, so it talks about
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  Speaker 1: slown and all the background. Now some people say this
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  Speaker 1: is all made out. What's the source that's connected to Halloween.
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  Speaker 1: Look at all the sources here. So for those of
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  Speaker 1: you that are like, give me some sources, these are
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  Speaker 1: all references and sources of how this is pagan. Look
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  Speaker 1: at here the pagan religions of the ancient British Isles,
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  Speaker 1: their nature and legacy Oxford, page three, twenty seven. I
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  Speaker 1: mean all of these are sources to how this is
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  Speaker 1: tied in and where the history comes from. Okay, So
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  Speaker 1: literally one hundred and twenty five sources of the history
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  Speaker 1: of Halloween, and then secondary sources are are linked here
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  Speaker 1: as well. So I think it's a total cop out
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  Speaker 1: for people to say there's no sources.
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  Speaker 2: This is not accurate.
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  Speaker 1: Halloween is totally fine trick or treating well, can I
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  Speaker 1: just take my kids trick or treating Isaiah on Halloween?
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  Speaker 1: During some Celtic celebrations of Sawwin this is another article. Here,
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  Speaker 1: villagers disguise themselves in costumes made of animal skins to
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  Speaker 1: drive away phantom visitors. Banquet tables were prepared and left
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  Speaker 1: out for unwelcome spirits. In later centuries, people begin dressing
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  Speaker 1: as ghosts, demons, and other malevolent creatures, performing antics in
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  Speaker 1: exchange for food and drink. The custom was known as mumming,
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  Speaker 1: dating back to the Middle Age, which is what we
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  Speaker 1: do modern nature or treating. By the ninth century, Christians
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  Speaker 1: had spread into Celtic lands, where gradually blended with supplanted
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  Speaker 1: older pagan rites and a one thousand a d. The
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  Speaker 1: church designated November two as All Souls Day. Poor people
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  Speaker 1: would visit the houses of wealthier families and receive pastries
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  Speaker 1: called soul cakes in exchange for a promise to pray
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  Speaker 1: for the souls of the homer homeowner's dead relatives, known
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  Speaker 1: as souling. The practice was later taken up by children
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  Speaker 1: who would go door to door asking for gifts such
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  Speaker 1: as food, money, and ale. Again, absolutely pagan. Absolutely pagan
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  Speaker 1: kids dressing up going around asking rich people for gifts,
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  Speaker 1: saying they'll pray for their dead relatives. So you might say, well,
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  Speaker 1: can't we just redeem Halloween? But the word redeem means
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  Speaker 1: to buy something back, and God does not want this holiday.
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  Speaker 1: God does not want to buy back this pagan holiday.
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  Speaker 1: Some of you might say, well, isn't Christmas pagan? I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to go into that in this video, but
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  Speaker 1: the bottom line is this Christmas does not promote gore, death, darkness,
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  Speaker 1: and evil spirits. Halloween does. So that's the argument. It
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  Speaker 1: promotes things contrary to our faith. Again, Theesians five says
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  Speaker 1: have no fellowship, but instead expose them and glorified Satan.
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  Speaker 1: I posted an article five reasons Christians should not celebrate Halloween.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna share with you those reasons I gave very quick,
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  Speaker 1: very concise. Number one has pagan origins. We've talked about
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  Speaker 1: this in the video. Even the History Channel would admit
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  Speaker 1: that Halloween has historical ties to pagan festivals. Number two
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  Speaker 1: a cult and witchcraft, the connection between witchcraft and the
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  Speaker 1: occult and Halloween is undeniable. This is not something Christian
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  Speaker 1: should be celebrating. God detests witchcraft according to the Bible.
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  Speaker 1: Number three fear in darkness. God has not given us
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  Speaker 1: a spirit of fear, and one of the main themes
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  Speaker 1: of Halloween is fear. We are called to be the
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  Speaker 1: light of the world, and why would we celebrate a
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  Speaker 1: holiday that promotes darkness. Number four morality. Most costumes promote violet, gore,
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  Speaker 1: or sexual themes that directly go against Christian morals. Number
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  Speaker 1: five alternative beliefs. Participating in Halloween condones beliefs and practices
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  Speaker 1: that don't align with our faith. Most of the practices
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  Speaker 1: involved with Halloween celebrate New Age and false religions. So
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  Speaker 1: my final thoughts is this, but Isaiah, what if my
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  Speaker 1: kids miss out? And my response is don't you want
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  Speaker 1: them to miss out on fear, gore, death, lust, and
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  Speaker 1: everything else Halloween promotes. Halloween promotes things that are ungodly
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  Speaker 1: and unrighteous, things that we as Christian should not be celebrating.
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  Speaker 1: I don't see the reason why any Christian should celebrate Halloween.
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  Speaker 2: This is my opinion. I believe it's something we should celebrate.
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  Speaker 1: From pagan, occultic origins to the five reasons I gave you.
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  Speaker 1: Let me know if you're gonna be celebrating down below.
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  Speaker 1: If you are celebrating Halloween, let me know why down below.
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  Speaker 1: I don't see a justification, but I would like to know,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm interested to know your justification on Halloween. We're
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  Speaker 1: live every Monday, Tuesday, and sometimes Friday. Pray about becoming
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  Speaker 1: a monthly partner with our ministry. You can do that
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  Speaker 1: down below and we'll see you guys in the next video.
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  Speaker 2: God bless
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