Why Russia should not celebrate Halloween
Next week, October 31, in most countries of the West and, above all, in the USA, Halloween will be held, as usual, widely and on a grand scale. Unfortunately, at one time this trend penetrated the territory of some post-Soviet countries. Russia - including. In an effort to join the "cultural values of civilization", we also began to dress up in evil spirits, maim innocent pumpkins, and organize appropriate "parties" - even to hold such in schools. Just do it would not be worth it categorically. Why?
To answer this question, first of all, you need to understand the very essence of this "holiday". Some call it "All Saints Day." However, this absolutely does not correspond to the truth - Halloween is really spent on the eve of the day, which the Catholics have just such a name for, but it’s only related to this church date is like the pagan Kupala night to the Orthodox Christmas of John the Baptist. Match dates - and no more. Regarding such a version, there is a version that church leaders who made up the saints (both Orthodox and Catholic) specifically tried to "block" the dates of the most significant pagan rituals in this way, "switching" the congregation to new, Christian holidays.
They call Halloween and "Day of the Dead." Now this is closer to the truth, but also far from the whole truth. Among the Celtic Druids, who are considered the "progenitors" of Halloween, he was dedicated to a specific "deity" - either Samhain, or Samhain. Different sources give different transcriptions, and it’s not the point. That night, the Celts honored and worshiped the "god of the dead," the lord of darkness and death, damned and restless souls. Well, let’s try to find such a correspondence in the Christian teaching ... The obvious analogies for the night should not be remembered for sure.
And here is the legend about the main symbol of the “holiday” - a squirming pumpkin with a candle inside, called the “Jack lamp”, its origin is already completely Christian. According to this, the mentioned Jack was a sinner during his lifetime, whom to look for - a bitter drunkard, a fantastic stingy, well, and so on. And also - with a rare sneak, who managed in some incomprehensible way to agree with the Prince of Darkness that after his death he would not be taken to hell, where she had the very place.
But only, as is usually the case in such legends, Jack eventually outwitted himself - he was ordered to go to heaven, “otmazatsya” from the underworld, and so he ended up in the middle of nothing after death. Stuck in darkness, timelessness and silence, Jack turned to an old acquaintance for help. Well, yes, the one with horns and hooves. The "benefactor", smelling strongly of sulfur, helped him - he grabbed a piece of coal from a hellfire and put it in his paws: get what you deserve! And Jack, for convenience, Jack, who has since been wandering around in Eternity, who no one needs, adapted himself.
Legend is a legend, but any priest will explain to you that the Halloween pumpkin, in fact, is an evil satanic parody of the lamps, lit in front of the images in the temple. Yes, as, in fact, the whole holiday, the essence of which is mockery of the fundamental principles of Christian doctrine. And the transformation into evil spirits, even if comic, among the Orthodox has a very specific name - demon. As for the fact that some leaders of the Catholic and, especially, Protestant churches in recent years have called for the celebration of Halloween to be “more tolerant” and almost take part in it ... So many of them perverted there "! "Civilized West", what to take from them ...
But the Church of Satan, founded and feeling great in the USA (officially registered, recognized by the American army as “one of the religions”, has headquarters in New York), directly calls Halloween one of its two main holidays! In modern Ukraine, by the way, they are also preparing for the upcoming “triumph” with all zeal - the local Internet resources are full of relevant advertisements, and on the streets of cities with billboards of images of toothy pumpkins and laughing evil spirits. By the way, the satanic "church" (the only one in all the former post-Soviet countries!) Was also registered there quite legally - a few months after the victory of the "Maidan". How do you like the prospect of a joint celebration with a similar audience?
What the games of “tolerance” and “tolerance” lead to are perfectly demonstrated by the example of, again, America. First, in Florida, schoolchildren receive the “Great Satanic Book of Activities for Children” as a teaching aid, as the court decided to “give representatives of all religions and atheists equal rights to distribute their literature in educational institutions.” Then - the US Internal Revenue Service carefully exempts the school club established by the Satanic Temple organization in Washington ...
Effects? They don’t have to wait long - in the very Florida, where such smart and tolerant judges, two Satanists were detained just the other day ... 11 and 12 years! Vigilant teachers grabbed them, hiding in the toilet with knives in their hands and preparing to “sacrifice” their fellow practitioners with a younger age. According to the failed juvenile killers, in this way they were going to send dozens and a half babies to the next world, after which they planned to "taste their flesh and blood." Bullshit? As you know ... After police reports that Roslyakov burned the Bible before the college’s massacre, he personally doesn’t think so.
Actually, I'm not trying to either dissuade from anything, nor to convince of anything. I simply state the reliable facts. Can the Russian Orthodox Church priests categorically condemning the celebration of Halloween be reproached with "clericalism" or "obscurantism", but would you like to hear a direct and meanest opponent from them? “I am glad that Christian parents allowed their children to worship the devil for at least one night a year. Welcome to Halloween! ” - These words belong to Anton Sandor LaVey, founder of the American Church of Satan.
Our world is much more complicated than it seems to many at first glance. Often it doesn’t matter at all whether you believe in the existence of the Great Evil, whether you deny it or you are not at all interested in this issue. It is much more important not to do the things that make Evil itself interesting to you ...
To answer this question, first of all, you need to understand the very essence of this "holiday". Some call it "All Saints Day." However, this absolutely does not correspond to the truth - Halloween is really spent on the eve of the day, which the Catholics have just such a name for, but it’s only related to this church date is like the pagan Kupala night to the Orthodox Christmas of John the Baptist. Match dates - and no more. Regarding such a version, there is a version that church leaders who made up the saints (both Orthodox and Catholic) specifically tried to "block" the dates of the most significant pagan rituals in this way, "switching" the congregation to new, Christian holidays.
They call Halloween and "Day of the Dead." Now this is closer to the truth, but also far from the whole truth. Among the Celtic Druids, who are considered the "progenitors" of Halloween, he was dedicated to a specific "deity" - either Samhain, or Samhain. Different sources give different transcriptions, and it’s not the point. That night, the Celts honored and worshiped the "god of the dead," the lord of darkness and death, damned and restless souls. Well, let’s try to find such a correspondence in the Christian teaching ... The obvious analogies for the night should not be remembered for sure.
And here is the legend about the main symbol of the “holiday” - a squirming pumpkin with a candle inside, called the “Jack lamp”, its origin is already completely Christian. According to this, the mentioned Jack was a sinner during his lifetime, whom to look for - a bitter drunkard, a fantastic stingy, well, and so on. And also - with a rare sneak, who managed in some incomprehensible way to agree with the Prince of Darkness that after his death he would not be taken to hell, where she had the very place.
But only, as is usually the case in such legends, Jack eventually outwitted himself - he was ordered to go to heaven, “otmazatsya” from the underworld, and so he ended up in the middle of nothing after death. Stuck in darkness, timelessness and silence, Jack turned to an old acquaintance for help. Well, yes, the one with horns and hooves. The "benefactor", smelling strongly of sulfur, helped him - he grabbed a piece of coal from a hellfire and put it in his paws: get what you deserve! And Jack, for convenience, Jack, who has since been wandering around in Eternity, who no one needs, adapted himself.
Legend is a legend, but any priest will explain to you that the Halloween pumpkin, in fact, is an evil satanic parody of the lamps, lit in front of the images in the temple. Yes, as, in fact, the whole holiday, the essence of which is mockery of the fundamental principles of Christian doctrine. And the transformation into evil spirits, even if comic, among the Orthodox has a very specific name - demon. As for the fact that some leaders of the Catholic and, especially, Protestant churches in recent years have called for the celebration of Halloween to be “more tolerant” and almost take part in it ... So many of them perverted there "! "Civilized West", what to take from them ...
But the Church of Satan, founded and feeling great in the USA (officially registered, recognized by the American army as “one of the religions”, has headquarters in New York), directly calls Halloween one of its two main holidays! In modern Ukraine, by the way, they are also preparing for the upcoming “triumph” with all zeal - the local Internet resources are full of relevant advertisements, and on the streets of cities with billboards of images of toothy pumpkins and laughing evil spirits. By the way, the satanic "church" (the only one in all the former post-Soviet countries!) Was also registered there quite legally - a few months after the victory of the "Maidan". How do you like the prospect of a joint celebration with a similar audience?
What the games of “tolerance” and “tolerance” lead to are perfectly demonstrated by the example of, again, America. First, in Florida, schoolchildren receive the “Great Satanic Book of Activities for Children” as a teaching aid, as the court decided to “give representatives of all religions and atheists equal rights to distribute their literature in educational institutions.” Then - the US Internal Revenue Service carefully exempts the school club established by the Satanic Temple organization in Washington ...
Effects? They don’t have to wait long - in the very Florida, where such smart and tolerant judges, two Satanists were detained just the other day ... 11 and 12 years! Vigilant teachers grabbed them, hiding in the toilet with knives in their hands and preparing to “sacrifice” their fellow practitioners with a younger age. According to the failed juvenile killers, in this way they were going to send dozens and a half babies to the next world, after which they planned to "taste their flesh and blood." Bullshit? As you know ... After police reports that Roslyakov burned the Bible before the college’s massacre, he personally doesn’t think so.
Actually, I'm not trying to either dissuade from anything, nor to convince of anything. I simply state the reliable facts. Can the Russian Orthodox Church priests categorically condemning the celebration of Halloween be reproached with "clericalism" or "obscurantism", but would you like to hear a direct and meanest opponent from them? “I am glad that Christian parents allowed their children to worship the devil for at least one night a year. Welcome to Halloween! ” - These words belong to Anton Sandor LaVey, founder of the American Church of Satan.
Our world is much more complicated than it seems to many at first glance. Often it doesn’t matter at all whether you believe in the existence of the Great Evil, whether you deny it or you are not at all interested in this issue. It is much more important not to do the things that make Evil itself interesting to you ...
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