Why do Black Christians celebrate the Pagan holiday Halloween?

Brother Mozell,
I am with you. I think people should leave it to others to let their own personal convictions guide them in the decision making process. Halloween, Christmas, Easter, etc are celebrated and all have pagan traditions interwined in them. The easter bunny and eggs have nothing to do with the resurrection as well as the St. Nicolas /Santa Claus have nothing to do with the birth of Christ. People need to chill out.

Santa=Satan?! Are you serious? Lighten up, the whole holiday season, starting with Halloween and ending with Christmas is some of the best time for kids. I agree with Mosell it is not that serious. And knowing the root of the day is not going to stop people for celebrating it.

Wow! Now that's going deep. I, myself, don't celebrate Halloween but your comments is taking it to another level. However, if that's the way u feel then who's to say anything different? To each his own I guess.

Do like Jesus did, render unto Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's. Not all Christians celebrate pagan days. That's a broad subject and even some Jews or Muslims don't acknowledge Christ. Many blacks, don't honor Kwanza either.

Earl, the questions asks: WWJD? Would he celebrate a pagan holiday? You have approached another topic? Perhaps, you should write how you feel about Christianity being an Occult belief system and why? I think you're the one wanting to express that? If you're not a believer in Christ, no one is making you believe in him. However, there are many who do believe. No one is putting you down because you're making remarks against Christians or Christianity. After all you're making Christ look good. He said many would hate you because of me. Not saying you're hating of course! You may need to let how you're feeling about that. Everyone is not like you, and you are not like everyone else. Go easy....you're living with what you've chosen, I accept that's what you've decided to be. Stay decent.

Mercy is granted...and my forgiveness is asked. No, I wasn't insulted. Besides...I love you Earl Brown!

Isaac I don't have any children and have given out candy to the children in my neighborhood for years til I moved into an apartment. I looked forward to seeing all the kids dressed up. It's fun! And of course their parents should be inspecting everything they get and only going to houses that they know the people. And as for Christmas try to explain the economy to a child that is looking at all the toys they want and their friends will get. I buy toys every year to donate for the kids I know will not get anything. I am not all into the history of any holiday I say just let children be children. I have worked retail all my life so you do not have to tell me that it is all commericial.

I don't know where you got you information from, but let me help you:
Halloween has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain. The festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture, and is sometimes regarded as the "Celtic New Year." Traditionally, the festival was a time used by the ancient Celtic pagans to take stock of supplies and slaughter livestock for winter stores. The ancient Gaels believed that on October 31, now known as Halloween, the boundary between the alive and the deceased dissolved, and the dead become dangerous for the living by causing problems such as sickness or damaged crops. The festivals would frequently involve bonfires, into which bones of slaughtered livestock were thrown. Costumes and masks were also worn at the festivals in an attempt to mimic the evil spirits or placate them.
The term Halloween is shortened from All Hallows' Even (both "even" and "eve" are abbreviations of "evening," but "Halloween" gets its "n" from "even") as it is the eve of "All Hallows' Day," which is now also known as All Saints' Day. It was a day of religious festivities in various northern European Pagan traditions, until Popes Gregory III and Gregory IV moved the old Christian feast of All Saints' Day from May 13 (which had itself been the date of a pagan holiday, the Feast of the Lemures) to November 1. In the ninth century, the Church measured the day as starting at sunset, in accordance with the Florentine calendar. Although All Saints' Day is now considered to occur one day after Halloween, the two holidays were, at that time, celebrated on the same day. Liturgically, the Church traditionally celebrated that day as the Vigil of All Saints, and, until 1970, a day of fasting as well. Like other vigils, it was celebrated on the previous day if it fell on a Sunday, although secular celebrations of the holiday remained on the 31st. The Vigil was suppressed in 1955, but was later restored in the post-Vatican II calendar.
One of our biggest problems is that we fail to find out things for ourselves, relying on what someone else told us as being the truth. In order to truly know something, we must find out for ourselves.

...One of our biggest problems is that we fail to find out things for ourselves, relying on what someone else told us as being the truth. In order to truly know something, we must find out for ourselves...

I learned this a long time ago Brother Milliken. All Saints Day was an attempt by the Church to force the people to give up their pagan celebrations which didn't happen.

Why do Black Christians celebrate the Pagan holiday Halloween?

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Cannot add much BUT

1. 'blackChristians' learned everything they KNOW from 'whiteChristians'

2. paganChristians from Europe introduced racistlyIgnorant Pagan Belief into their slaves minds

----- ACTUALLY; the slave technically had NO mind.....those slaveMinds BELONGED to the masters.....

----- the masters of Generational evil, rape(male/female), torture, pedophilia(male/female), and murder

3. Finally that paganRacist belief HAD nothing to do with the Genesis of Monotheistic Belief of Africa Asia