Renegade Disciple
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This is your yearly reminder that Halloween is a Christian holiday. If you don’t celebrate it because of what you think you know about history- don’t let me catch you celebrating Christmas or Easter (ESPECIALLY with Santa or bunnies).

Lighten up, dress up, and pass out some damn candy.
04:06 PM - Oct 27, 2023
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Amylouise Donnelly
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In response to Renegade Disciple.
Polite question. Can you explain Christian origins of Halloween? I ask if someone from home this is a sacred Day related to the end of harvest.

Looking to learn, not to challenge.
04:23 PM - Oct 27, 2023
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Renegade Disciple
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In response to Amylouise Donnelly.
Of course! I appreciate the dialogue.

When I say this- I mean it is a Holiday on the Christian liturgical calendar (All Hallow’s Eve) and has been for centuries longer than our society has existed. THAT is the only reason we know and celebrate it in the modern West.
10:04 PM - Oct 28, 2023
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Renegade Disciple
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In response to Renegade Disciple.
Reclaiming traditional Harvest celebrations is something lots of folks are doing in recent times, but much of it is “after the fact” in searching for the foundations of All Hallows. Our awareness of it that allows for such reclaiming is because of its Christian form.

I hope that makes sense?
10:06 PM - Oct 28, 2023
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Renegade Disciple
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In response to Renegade Disciple.
The same rings true for any modern celebration that is the result of early Christian Syncretism as it expanded out of a solely Jewish framework. Christmas, Easter, and Sunday worship itself all have similar stories as All Hallows/All Saints.
10:07 PM - Oct 28, 2023
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Renegade Disciple
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Early Christianity had this unique way of finding common ground with preexisting beliefs about the cycles of life and the nature of the divine when it encountered new cultures. Of course, it’s a complicated history- but there was more “Yes, And” going on with the early missionaries than we think
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10:12 PM - Oct 28, 2023
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