Over the last few years, I have watched as the Halloween decorations have slowly grown tackier and more "consumerist" while somehow also growing more demonic: a giant skeleton eviscerating baby skeletons, a 20 foot phantom, a robotic zombie that growls as you pass...
Growing up, my family did not celebrate Halloween at all. Even the typical Church "Not Halloween" dress-up event was a stretch for us. When I moved to another state, and noticed that the decorations and atmosphere was substantially less occultic, I thought I'd give it a fair shake: I gave out candy, I dressed up for work events... But each year I watched as the occult grew, and the darkness became more and more palpable.
As I have begun to research the history of All Hallow's Eve and All Saint's Day, I noticed something interesting. All Hallow's Eve was, traditionally, a day of mourning, fasting, and prayer for the deceased. A time to remember loved ones who are gone, and mourn their passing. All Saint's Day was a day of feasting and celebration of the Church Redeemed, saints in paradise having been resurected unto life.
So historically, All Hallow's Eve was a day of fasting to remember the departed. Now, Halloween is a day of glutteny to celebrate the undead.
This inversion of the religious tradition is no accident. For those who are aware, this pattern should immediately set off an alarm bell. It is one of the core tenants of the Satanic Church. The worship of demons and the Devil are characterized by a reversal or inversion of the God-ordained pattern. The Satanic Mass, for example, is a direct reversal of the atholic Mass, with a bastardized version of the Sacrament being performed.
In a post-scientific culture, where the supernatural is not even recognized, the occultic presence is masked by the tacky and the cartoonish, in order to keep people from noticing. Nevertheless, it is present, and it is growing.
If you take fire into your bosom, you will be burned; and a culture that denies the existence of demons is still being ruled by them. There is no room to play with the occult.
Additionally, there is no room for sanitizing the perversion with a whitewashed facade of Christian sounding ideas. A mummy saying "Be wrapped up in Jesus" is not a cleaned-up version of the occult; it is a whitewashed tomb masquerading as something spiritual.
Do not trust the Devil when he comes as an angel of light, and do not trust him when he comes as a cartoonish plastic inflatable either. You must purge the evil from among you.
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