During Halloween, time-released curses are always loosed. A time-released curse is a period that has been set aside to release demonic activity and to ensnare souls in great measure ... During this period demons are assigned against those who participate in the rituals and festivities. These demons are automatically drawn to the fetishes that open doors for them to come into the lives of human beings. For example, most of the candy sold during this season has been dedicated and prayed over by witches.

I do not buy candy during the Halloween season. Curses are sent through the tricks and treats of the innocent whether they get it by going door to door or by purchasing it from the local grocery store. The demons cannot tell the difference.

Even the colors of Halloween (orange, brown and dark red) are dedicated. These colors are connected to the fall equinox, which is around the 20th or 21st of September each year and is sometimes called "Mabon." During this season witches are celebrating the changing of the seasons from summer to fall. They give praise to the gods for the demonic harvest. They pray to the gods of the elements (air, fire, water and earth).

Mother earth is highly celebrated during the fall demonic harvest. Witches praise mother earth by bringing her fruits, nuts and herbs. Demons are loosed during these acts of worship. When nice church folk lay out their pumpkins on the church lawn, fill their baskets with nuts and herbs, and fire up their bonfires, the demons get busy. They have no respect for the church grounds. They respect only the sacrifice and do not care if it comes from believers or non-believers.

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Halloween is much more than a holiday filled with fun and tricks or treats. It is a time for the gathering of evil that masquerades behind the fictitious characters of Dracula, werewolves, mummies and witches on brooms. The truth is that these demons that have been presented as scary cartoons actually exist. I have prayed for witches who are addicted to drinking blood and howling at the moon.

While the lukewarm and ignorant think of these customs as "just harmless fun," the vortexes of hell are releasing new assignments against souls. Witches take pride in laughing at the ignorance of natural men (those who ignore the spirit realm).

Decorating buildings with Halloween scenes, dressing up for parties, going door-to-door for candy, standing around bonfires and highlighting pumpkin patches are all acts rooted in entertaining familiar spirits. All these activities are demonic and have occult roots.

The word "occult" means "secret." The danger of Halloween is not in the scary things we see but in the secret, wicked, cruel activities that go on behind the scenes. These activities include:

Sex with demons
Orgies between animals and humans
Animal and human sacrifices
Sacrificing babies to shed innocent blood
Rape and molestation of adults, children and babies
Revel nights
Conjuring of demons and casting of spells
Release of "time-released" curses against the innocent and the ignorant.

Sex with demons
Orgies between animals and humans
Animal and human sacrifices
Sacrificing babies to shed innocent blood
Rape and molestation of adults, children and babies
Revel nights
Conjuring of demons and casting of spells
Release of "time-released" curses against the innocent and the ignorant.

Haha, that's stupid.

Also, how is this a debate?

So you're drawing a conclusion on a whole belief system because of one crazy person? People could do the same with any religion, or Atheism....This isn't a debate, it's an attack on a set of beliefs..

So - you're defending this crackpot's belief that "the danger of Halloween is not in the scary things we see but in the secret, wicked, cruel activities that go on behind the scenes. These activities include:

Sex with demons
Orgies between animals and humans
Animal and human sacrifices
Sacrificing babies to shed innocent blood
Rape and molestation of adults, children and babies
Revel nights
Conjuring of demons and casting of spells
Release of "time-released" curses against the innocent and the ignorant."

Do you really think these ideas are valid?

Simply because I oppose the way you build a stereotype on a system of beliefs from one person's craziness does not mean I agree with them ...

A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in no wise doubt that plagues, fevers and every sort of evil come from him.

An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.

As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.

As to the common people, one has to be hard with them and see that they do their work and that under the threat of the sword and the law they comply with the observance of piety, just as you chain up wild beasts.

At Poltersberg, there is a lake similarly cursed. If you throw a stone into it, a dreadful storm immediately arises, and the whole neighboring district quakes to its centre. 'Tis the devils kept prisoner there.

At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him.

Demons live in many lands, but particularly in Prussia.

How often have not the demons called 'Nix,' drawn women and girls into the water, and there had commerce with them, with fearful consequences.

I almost feel like throwing Jimmy into the stove, as the priest in Kulenberg did.

I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.

I maintain that some Jew wrote the Book of James who probably heard about Christian people but never encountered any.

I myself saw and touched at Dessay, a child of this sort, which had no human parents, but had proceeded from the Devil. He was twelve years old, and, in outward form, exactly resembled ordinary children.

I should have no compassion on these witches; I should burn them all.

Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as though they proceeded from natural causes, are ignorant blockheads.

In many countries there are particular places to which devils more especially resort. In Prussia there is an infinite number of evil spirits.

In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has fixed upon as one of the chief residences of his evil spirits.

Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt...people.

Many sweat to reconcile St Paul and St James, but in vain. 'Faith justifies' and 'faith does not justify' contradict each other flatly. If any one can harmonize them I will give him my doctor's hood and let him call me a fool.

No gown worse becomes a than the desire to be wise.

Our bodies are always exposed to Satan. The maladies I suffer are not natural, but Devil's spells.

Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spritual things, but--more frequently than not --struggles against the Divine Word.

Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be put out of sight and ... know nothing but the word of God.

Snakes and monkeys are subjected to the demon more than other animals. Satan lives in them and possesses them. He uses them to deceive men and to injure them.

Some demons are also in the thick black clouds, which cause hail, lightning and thunder, and poison the air, the pastures and grounds.

The best way to get rid of the Devil, if you cannot kill it with the words of Holy Scripture, is to rail at and mock him. Music, too, is very good; music is hateful to him, and drives him far away.

The Devil can so completely assume the human form, when he wants to deceive us, that we may well lie with what seems to be a woman, of real flesh and blood, and yet all the while 'tis only the Devil in the shape of a woman. 'Tis the same with women, who may think that a man is in bed with them, yet 'tis only the Devil; and...the result of this connection is oftentimes an imp of darkness, half mortal, half devil.

The Devil fears the word of God, He can't bite it; it breaks his teeth.

The Devil, it is true, is not exactly a doctor who has taken degrees, but he is very learned, very expert for all that. He has not been carrying on his business during thousands of years for nothing.

The Devil, too, sometimes steals human children; it is not infrequent for him to carry away infants within the first six weeks after birth, and to substitute in their place imps.

The winds are nothing else but good or bad spirits. Hark! how the Devil is puffing and blowing....

There is no rustic so rude but that, if he dreams or fancies anything, it must be the whisper of the Holy Ghost, and he himself a prophet.

Copernicus wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.

To be a Christian, you must pluck out the eye of reason.

... two devils rose from the water, and flew off through the air, crying, 'Oh, oh, oh!' and turning one over another, in sportive mockery ...

We are at fault for not slaying the Jews.

We know, on the authority of Moses, that longer than six thousand years the world did not exist.

We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman.

We need not invite the Devil to our table; he is too ready to come without being asked. The air all about us is filled with demons....

What shall we do with the Jews? I advise that all their prayer books and Talmudic writings...are to be taken from them.

What shall we do with the Jews? I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews.

What shall we do with the Jews? I advise that their rabbis be forbidden to teach on pain of loss of life and limb.

What shall we do with the Jews? Set fire to their synagogues or schools and bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them.

What shall we do with the Jews? Their homes also should be razed and destroyed.

When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children.

Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason.

Women have but small and narrow chests, and broad hips, to the end that they should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children.

So tenaciously should we cling to the world revealed by the Gospel, that were I to see all the Angels of Heaven coming down to me to tell me something different, not only would I not be tempted to doubt a single syllable, but I would shut my eyes and stop my ears, for they would not deserve to be either seen or heard.

Good job quoting Luther (I think?). Glad to see you can use the internet to find the worse things people say.

However there is a problem with your train of thought. You're so obsessed with attacking the beliefs you fail to acknowledge that it was Luther who said it, not God(or some other deity, to be impartial) not me, and not someone who lives down the street form you who is a Christian.

You would hold me and people who share my beliefs responsible for what someone said how long ago? As I said, you are no better than the person you accuse

But, tell me, why would you uphold the values passed down by these same people [in this case, Martin Luther] -- and in the previous case, Mrs. Crackpot, that demonstrate, time and again, just how little PROGRESS religion, and in particular Christianity, has made over the past 450 years?

Oh -- it will get there ...

But tell me, aside from the fact that it is obviously stupid -- don't you think this kind of fundie Christian stupidity is dangerous to mankind in general?

I mean, really -- this moron who wrote this articles prolly has CHILDREN -- and she prolly home-schools them!!!

*shudders*

Crappy argument is crappy.

I'm a Christian, and I only do not participate in Halloween because of the origins. I don't believe that those origins are practiced in today's world, but I abstain anyway, with exceptions.

I only associate Christmas with Jesus' birth because that is the day that is used. I recognize that the origins of that holiday are not appropriate in my view, but I still celebrate the holiday simply because the fact is few if any people know when Jesus was actually born.

Perhaps, Blyaunte, you are too convinced of your own right to realize that, guess what, not all people who "cling to religion" as you claim are not a bunch of 16th Century rubes. If you would quit holding that view, you would probably do a lot better at not making a fool of yourself in debates by creating pointless, useless straw man arguments that do not represent your opponents' views well, and in some cases, at all.

If I'm not mistaken, Halloween is as the writer of the article stated, a holiday concerning spirits, and more specifically evil spirits. Christianity, as much as some people claim otherwise, is not animism.

What I dislike about the origins of Christmas is that December 25 was originally a sun worship holiday.

I do believe in demonic possession ...

Well, actually, Hallowe’en is more closely related to the Celtic harvest festival of “Samuin” – but if you wish to declare the Irish as evil and demonic, then that is your choice, I suppose.

Really? So you believe that there are magical creatures of malevolent power that seek to control us and make us do bad things?

Blyaunte, if you continue to twist my words, I'm afraid I will have to do something more drastic than continue debating with you.

Blyaunte, if you continue to twist my words, I'm afraid I will have to do something more drastic than continue debating with you.


I gladly would, I'm half-Scottish

Such as, what? "Not" debating me?

Really? So you believe that there are magical creatures of malevolent power that seek to control us and make us do bad things?

This is called a straw man argument turned abusive.

I fail to see how that is good debating, especially when you twisted my words out of context.

It takes a real idiot to reject religion or God based on this garbage, spewed out by some cult.

So - Protestantism is a "cult"?

If I could act decent for 45 minutes in front of an attractive girl,

Oh -- it will get there ...

But tell me, aside from the fact that it is obviously stupid -- don't you think this kind of fundie Christian stupidity is dangerous to mankind in general?

I mean, really -- this moron who wrote this articles prolly has CHILDREN -- and she prolly home-schools them!!!

*shudders*

Well spotted.



Shall I drag out a whole series of questionable quotations from the bible, instead?

But, tell me, why would you uphold the values passed down by these same people [in this case, Martin Luther] -- and in the previous case, Mrs. Crackpot, that demonstrate, time and again, just how little PROGRESS religion, and in particular Christianity, has made over the past 450 years?

I love the way you over generalised the beliefs of over 2 Billion people using the statements of ONE person.

I'm a Catholic. I'm sure that is already well known in these good forums. My religion is one of the most conservative of the Christian denominations. I do not agree (yet tolerate) same sex marriage and I am a firm enemy of abortion. Yet you do not see me calling out pagans and wiccans as proponents or orgies, sexual molestation and blood sacrifices. I even apologised on behalf of my faith to one in the General Chat.

Could it be that your little "reason was nothing more than another attempt to bash and lash our faith in your typical intolerant fashion Blyaunte? That by making us appear as a herd of babbling morons, you somehow become more "elevated" or "enlightened" than me and many other rational thinkers in my religion? Let me tell you this, I was just listening to calls on Catholic Answers live awhile ago of concerned parents about Halloween. The host at the time, Tim Staples stated firmly that we as a religion has nothing against children practising the tradition.

It's when we have to draw the line, such as say when the accusations made by the person in the OP is taking place, that we stand against. and who draws the line? We expect the parents to do so. The same responsibility we give them in Harry Potter and other "magical" related works and media..

I am also Catholic, but Catholic isn't the most conservative form of Christianity, as it always evolves. Most Catholics, for example, believe that evolution and creation can co-exist, something that most of the religion-bashers on this forum have not yet grasped.

The big bang is an explosion which is said to have started the universe, in theory NOTHING existed before the big bang (there are many theorys that clash with this but)

That's not what the scientifically accepted theory claims.

It's amazing how many people think they know about BBT.

*shrugs* what I was thought in R.E when we were learning how science and reigon could work together.

Aren't we getting alittle off topic here? Wait....what was the original topic again?

It was something on how all Christian are nuts who think demons possessed candy or something

It takes a real idiot to reject religion or God based on this garbage, spewed out by some cult.

Aren't we getting alittle off topic here? Wait....what was the original topic again?

That, in this modern age of science, technology and reason, there are still people who believe that witches and demons will possess you through candy ...

As a result, has Christianity actually managed to get itself out of the Dark Ages?

Judging by the results so far, I'd say the answer is a resounding "NO".

That, in this modern age of science, technology and reason, there are still people who believe that witches and demons will possess you through candy ...

As a result, has Christianity actually managed to get itself out of the Dark Ages?

Judging by the results so far, I'd say the answer is a resounding "NO".

Resounding? 1 person/2,100,000,000 people

DAMN

In this modern age, there are still Athiests making up conclusions based off of nothing.

As a result, has Athiesm actually managed to get its head out of its ass?

Judging by the results so far, I'd say the answer is a resounding "NO".