Michael Snyder – The End of the American Dream Oct 27, 2019
Have you noticed that each year the overall tone of Halloween just continues to get darker and darker? The movies keep getting more graphic, the decorations keep getting more gory and even the costumes keep getting more twisted. When I was growing up, I remember watching relatively benign cartoons such as “It’s A Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown”, and on Halloween night we would put on our silly store-bought costumes and go trick-or-treating. It was always a little bit difficult breathing through the stupid plastic masks, but my siblings and I were eager to gather lots of candy from the neighbors. Of course as a child I had no idea what the real meaning of Halloween was, and so I eagerly participated in the festivities. During those years, I just thought it was a time to dress up as my favorite cartoon character and eat candy until I felt ill.
But as our entire culture has become more sick, twisted and gory, so have our Halloween celebrations.
Sabrina the Teenage Witch, in her latest incarnation. Click to enlarge
Let me give you an example of how much things have changed. Just compare this clip of “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” from the 1970s to this clip of “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” from our current time.
Do you notice the difference?
We are like the proverbial “frog in the kettle” – over time we have become increasingly accustomed to occult influences in our entertainment, and over time they have just kept turning up the heat.
These days, many families eagerly embrace the gory side of Halloween. The following comes from a newspaper article about the “Halloween decorations” that one family has put up in front of their home in Pennsylvania…
A Reserve Township family of Halloween enthusiasts have turned their front yard into a neighborhood horror attraction.
Passersby are greeted by a knife-wielding Jason from “Friday the 13th,” corpses hanging out of coffins, demonic clowns, vampires, bats and many more spooky sights. Sound effects are included.
“We just love Halloween,” Daniel Gairing said in front of his Edison Street home.
Really?
Do they really want children to be traumatized by “a knife-wielding Jason” and “corpses hanging out of coffins” as they walk by that house day after day?
In his most recent article, Paul J. Batura described a house in Colorado Springs that is even worse…
Then there’s a cob-web covered house a few miles from where we live in Colorado Springs with mannequins hanging from the porch rafters. But wait – there’s more. A beat-up old car is parked in the driveway, a blood-splattered mannequin hanging out its window. The last piece of the gory display is a knocked over baby carriage, made to look like it was hit by the car, complete with a dead, bloodied “child” slumped on its side.
And they call this entertainment? I call it sick.
I call it sick too.
Have we actually sunk so low as a society that blood-splattered babies are now considered to be “entertainment”?
Maybe we have.
But supposedly nobody can top “McKamey Manor”. In order to go through “America’s scariest attraction”, participants must sign a 40 page legal document. The following comes from Newsweek…
Deemed to be America’s scariest attraction, visitors on a tour of McKamey Manor are willing to be physically, psychologically and emotionally tortured in any number of ways from being chained, dragged and slapped to being buried alive by several actors playing a part in the tour.
The scary antics that unfold can be so unbearable that all visitors are said to be allowed a safe word to stop the tour at any point and are required to sign a detailed 40-page legal waiver and must comply with a host of strict rules (including completing a sports physical and having an official medical note from a doctor stating you are mentally and physically cleared to participate) “for your own safety and the safety of the other guests,” the McKamey Manor website states.
Is it really fun to be “physically, psychologically and emotionally tortured”?
That certainly doesn’t sound like fun to me.
But this is where our entire country is going. As our society decays at a pace that is absolutely breathtaking, things are only going to get worse.
There are some that would like to make Halloween more “child-friendly” once again. For example, the Halloween & Costume Association would like to establish a “National Trick or Treat Day” that is held on the last Saturday of October each year. According to Fox News, the Halloween & Costume Association believes that it would be much safer for children to do their “trick or treating” during daylight hours…
The HCA claims there are “3,800 Halloween-related injuries each year” and “82 percent of parents don’t use high visibility aids,” like reflective tape or glos sticks, on their children’s costumes. Most kids don’t carry flashlights while out on Halloween night, the group claims, while “65 percent [of parents] don’t discuss Halloween safety with their children.”
Additionally, 12 percent of children age 5 and younger reportedly go trick-or-treating without adult supervision, according to their data.
Of course many have pointed out that the Halloween & Costume Association only wants this change so that they can make more money, and that is almost certainly true.
And the truth is that making cosmetic changes to this holiday does nothing to change the underlying spiritual purpose that it has always had.
As Fox News has noted, this holiday was known as the ancient occult festival of “Samhain” long before it ever became known as “Halloween”…
According to The History Channel, All Hallows Eve has been celebrated on Oct. 31 for thousands of years, originating with the Celtic celebration of Samhain, to honor the boundary between the living and the dead.
Virtually all of our current “Halloween traditions” can be traced directly back to ancient pagan religious practices.
So I don’t celebrate Halloween, and I have not celebrated it for many years.
It has been said that “you are what you eat”. Similarly, what you feed your mind is what you will eventually become.
This week, millions upon millions of Americans will open up the doors of their minds and will eagerly embrace everything that is dark, scary and evil about Halloween.
In life, everything that we do has consequences. I encourage you to think about that as October 31st approaches.
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A message that i sent to family members a few days ago
I get my fill of Witchcraft & Satanism in everyday life without the need for special Celebrations and Pagan Rituals to be recognized by those that I Love. These things ( Halloween et al. ) are not just the innocent actions to please the children as the explosion of the commercial popularity demonstrates. You are helping deceive the innocents ! Do you understand what you are doing ?
Please stop including me in your Blasphemies against the most high Creator. I do not want to be held accountable for them ! If you knew and comprehended of the origins of this “Holy day” and the ramifications of participation thereof you would understand what I am relating to you now.
Are you a Druid ?
Halloween—the day itself is of Druidic origin. (Myers, Robert J. Celebrations: The Complete Book of American Holidays, p. 258)
The mystic rites and ceremonies with which Hallow’en was originally observed had their origin among the Druids. . . (Douglas, George William. The American Book of Days, p. 566)
The Druids believed, during Samhain, the mystic veil separating the dead from the living opened. The Druids taught these roaming spirits loosed on Samhain went searching for a body to possess. The frightened Celts would masquerade as demons, evil spirits and ghosts, hoping to convince the roaming evil spirits, they were another evil spirit, and leave them alone. The Celts also prepared meals as “treats” to appease the evil spirits from “tricks” or malicious acts; hence our custom of “trick or treat.” The Druids performed horrifying human sacrifices and other vile rituals during Samhain. Let there be no doubt—Samhain night was a terrifying “covenant with death, and with hell.” And let there be no doubt – Samhain was the original Halloween night.
The original Halloween was a hellish night of Baal worship and child sacrifice. And most of our current Halloween customs derived directly from Baal rituals!
Baal is also a synonym for the devil. (Burns, Cathy. Masonic and Occult Symbols Illustrated, p. 327)
Halloween glorifies death in worship to Baal or the devil!
The Druid festival of Samhain was a celebration of death. Strutting its hellish death images of skulls, skeletons, ghosts, demons, devils and incarnate evil – today’s Halloween glorifies Death. David Skal titled his history of Halloween—Death Makes a Holiday:
Understanding the hellish history of Halloween—why in the world did decent people so embrace it? What magic “trick” transformed rancid Samhain into the giddy Halloween?
As the Catholic missionaries swarmed Britain and Ireland seeking the mass conversion to Catholicism their orders from Pope Gregory in 601 A.D. was to cunningly convert the Druid rituals into Catholic rituals. The Catholics converted the ritual of Samhain into the festival of All Saint’s Day, a day of celebration and prayer to dead “Saints.”
Halloween:A Covenant with Death and with Hell
http://www.av1611.org/halloween.htm
If you choose to inform yourself and save your soul here are some links to consider :
Halloween, Not Really Meant For Kids
https://mindbendingtruth.com/2014/10/31/halloween-not-really-meant-for-kids/
In my years of research into the Truth, some very disturbing information has been ‘unearthed’ (forgive me for ta…
Halloween | “Science and Meaning of Jack o’ Lantern” and “Crossing the Veil: The Pre-Christian Origins of Halloween and Samhain”
https://stillnessinthestorm.com/2014/10/halloween-science-and-meaning-of-jack-o/
“Learn Not the Way of the Heathen”
https://stillnessinthestorm.com/2014/10/halloween-science-and-meaning-of-jack-o/
Can Christians really worship the true God using”Christianized” pagan holidays?
Church at Home Learn Not the Way of the Heathen
https://www.churchathome.com/articles/learn-not-the-way-of-the-heathen.html
The primary goddess of Samhain is none other than Isis, https://www.northernway.org/mysteryschool/halloween-samhain/
Listen here : HISTORY OF HALLOWEEN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J14fxMogEo0
Occult Holidays And Sabbats
https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/cienciareal/cienciareal20.htm
PAGAN CHRISTIAN HOLIDAYS
https://werdsmith.com/genesology/VodjCBvxk
Orange and black from fire and darkness,
Come evil forms in all their starkness.
Grotesque and hideous horror witches brew,
Bloody fangs to devour a baby stew.
And what “God” imbues his creation with a flawed operating system and then holds his very own creation responsible for that faulty OS? What “God” then proclaims that the slow and torturous death of his “only begotten son” as sufficient remedy for the flaws he himself bequeathed unto his creation? What “God” hears all the prayers for peace post WW I and answers them with a subsequent world war?
What “God” would require ANY child to be born deformed or be the victim of cancer? Nobody is “going” to hell, sunshine.
Reading the Anton LaVey quote, I am reminded what our old Parish Priest said to us all in the congregation 40 years ago when I was but a child…”I know that you will not take me seriously but as Christians, you should not be celebrating Halloween”.
He was doubly right. We indeed think He was an old killjoy.
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
Ephesians 5:11
what is this ‘when’ stuff? this has always been a sick agenda. that’s what it is. occult & witchcraft. started with the druids & human sacrifice. always has been sick, twisted, occult, evil, etc. it is not a time to get kids to have ‘fun’.
@ Mr S
Lucifer is the god of this world, we are not of this world. You have a choice, freewill and I suggest that you do as much as you can to ferret out the truth and overcome any deceptions from anybody, including me. Test everything, do your own research and be honest to yourself. Love conquers all and the truth shall set you free from the bonds of this world.
Death
Nobody goes to Heaven or Hell, they go to sleep, until Judgement day, The Day of the Lord.
Job 14:12
So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
Daniel 12:2
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Mark 5:39
And when he was come in, he saith unto them, Why make ye this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth.
1 Thessalonians 4:14
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
1 Thessalonians 5:10
Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
1 Corinthians 15:20
But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
Here is another message that I sent to a friend a few days ago.
Hell does not last for eternity. Restitution is limited to the individual’s sins, some will perish quickly others will have to atone for more. All sinners will cease to exist after the One thousand years and the Devils last stand when the new Heaven and Earth are created.
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
Will Sinners Burn in Hell for Eternity | Restitution
https://wake-up.org/hell/sinners-burn-hell-eternity.html
Wicked people will burn according to the harm they inflicted. Yet, after restitution has been extracted and just…
growing up as an Australian we never got into Halloween because it was American but the last 5yrs has changed all that.
They canned Guy Fawkes night which was one of the best night’s to look forward to all year because it was a real local gathering community deal.
Tonight the liberals will be on the hunt and all their kids are going to get is a used cigarette butt and some simple words. Cats don’t like Halloween.
I am an Australian just arrived in the UK, a small part of London has a thriving Ozie community, its the done thing to buy a cheap VW camper to visit Shakespeares birth place at Stratford go to York and Glastonbury, all this under stand but what is the significance
on this Halloween day to go to the Winston Churchill statue and urinate on it ?
will some one please explain ?