Happy Halloween: The Devil’s Holiday, Brought to You By the Papacy
The holiday we know as Halloween, in which adorable little ghouls and goblins haunt our neighborhoods asking for candy and middle-aged women dress up as French Maids asking for attention, is brought to you by the Papacy.
Consider this just a timely public service announcement.
Oh, sure. Fundamentalist evangelicals get all of the attention for insisting that when the Bible says cosplaying as wizards defiles people it actually defiles them (their pesky insistence on interpreting verses like Deuteronomy 18:10 literally is the cause of it). But Pope Francis himself – the heir apparent to Peter’s throne, the Vicar of Christ, the Prince of the Apostles, the Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Papa Pancho, the Sultan of Righteousness, etc – has also denounced the devilish implications often associated with the holiday.
Which is weird, because the Papists started it.
In 2019, Francis eluded to the American(ish) celebration linked to the next day in the Papist calendar, All Hollows (or Saints) Day. Speaking of Halloween, he lamented, “…unfortunately, there are also messages of negative culture about death and the dead.”
Largely, it’s evangelical Christians who have popularized the dark overtones of the holiday. Those who deny supernatural things, as evangelicals mostly do, see no harm in a spooky carnival of souls hat-tipping dark and shadowy stuff. After all, Billy is cute in his pirate costume, and that seems innocent enough.
On November 1st that year, Pope Francis encouraged the faithful, “In these days, when, unfortunately, messages of negative culture on death and dead people are circulating, I invite you not to neglect, if possible, a visit and prayer to the cemetery.”
Right. Because prayers to cemeteries aren’t creepy at all.
Pope Frank’s quotation was not a typo. He meant, quite literally, go pray to the cemetery. That’s because the religion of Rome is deeply demonic, and is the world’s largest organized necromantic religion. The Bible severely warns against praying to dead people, in places like Leviticus 19:31, Deuteronomy 18:9-12, and Isaiah 8:19.
Those who facilitated communication with the dead were called mediums in the Bible (Leviticus 20:6) because they mediated (same root word, same concept) between the living and the dead. Protestants reject praying to the dead for this reason (well, that and nobody in the New Testament was instructed to pray to dead people, either), because the Scripture says that Jesus is the only mediator between us and God the Father (1 Timothy 2:5).
The earliest known prayer offered to Mary, for example, is found in the Sub Tuum Praesidium, a Greek document that was produced no earlier than the 4th Century, but probably as late as the 9th Century.
As John Calvin explains in his Treatise on Relics, praying to saints began by a syncretistic merging of Christianity with Roman paganism, and false gods were simply given the names of Christian saints.
Thus St. Anthony of Padua restores, like Mercury, stolen property; St. Hubert, like Diana, is the patron of sportsmen; St. Cosmas, like Esculapius, that of physicians, etc. In fact, almost every profession and trade, as well as every place, have their especial patron saint, who, like the tutelary divinity of the Pagans, receives particular hours from his or her protégés. – Calvin, Treatise on Relics
This practice also began about the 4th Century. And today, the Pope of Rome tells his followers to go pray to grave stones.
Halloween, or All Hallows Eve, falls the night before All Hallows Day. This holiday was started by Pope Gregory IV in 9th century, when praying to dead people really started to take off in the Roman church. The notion, which forms the supposition for the holiday, is that there is a bond between living Christians and dead ones, who are departed to the next, spooky realm.
The spooky part is that, in Catholic belief, everyone – including believers – is stuck in a ghostly land somewhere between Heaven and Hell. Not even canonized saints, necessarily, go straight to heaven. Sadly, your dead Catholic grandma is likely somewhere between the two eternal destinations, the Vatican would teach.
Well, we don’t know if the saints (that are canonized saints) if they had to experience Purgatory or not. We know that they’re now in Heaven. They could have all had to experience some degree of purgation to become perfected” – Go Ask Your Father host, Msgr. Stuart Swetland
If they’re not sure about canonized saints, it suffices to say your grandma is in purgatory, a notion derived not from Scripture, but from the Roman pagan myths of the after life, postulated not by the Apostles but by Plato and Virgil.
This is what Francis was referring to back on November 1 of 2019. All Hallows Day is designed to focus on the necromantic implications of Roman Catholicism, with the living being able to commune with the dead.
The origins of Halloween, as we know it, have been written upon ad nauseam, from bonfires to trick-or-treating to masks originally designed during Middle Ages Catholicism from the belief that the dead can come back to seek vengeance upon the living, so disguises might be necessary to trick the ghosts. But the notion of All Saints Day has largely not been widely publicized, despite it being just as spooky.
As with all traditions within the Catholic cult, the holiday has gotten very morbid, betraying the Satanic origins. Just as the Santa Muerte Catholic-offshoot cult in Mexico (celebrating the “cult of death”), which has been adopted as the official religion of the drug cartels, is steeped in the imagery of death, Halloween has been adopted by Satanists as a special day.
For example, consider what Magistra Templi Rex (the title) of the High Priestess of the Church of Satan (also, former lover of Anton Lavey) has to say about the holiday:
Halloween is traditionally a time when the obscure portal into the realms of darkness, death and the supernatural is thrown open.
Sound familiar? The High Priestess of the Church of Satan is using the same language as the Papacy, which teaches a “thin veil” between the dead and living is celebrated on All Hallows Day and All Hallows Eve.
Whether or not Halloween – as it is celebrated today with size 3 goblin outfits and whorish French Maids – is inherently evil, is besides the point. The actual holiday, celebrated by the actual Roman Catholic Church, is actually far more morbid and horrifying.
Sure, they’re already spooky to begin with, putting severed heads on display and parading around North America with severed arms. But when you realize that people professing to be followers of Jesus created a holiday specifically to practice necromancy, remind you that when you leave this earth you get to be in limbo for an undisclosed amount of time, and want you to hang out in cemeteries, it somehow gets even worse.
Rather, legitimate Christianity teaches that to be absent from the body is to present with the Lord (2 Corinthians 5:8). Legitimate Christianity teaches that upon death, the believer will be immediately with Jesus (Luke 22:43). Legitimate Christianity teaches that heaven and hell are separated by a great chasm both from each other and from the living, and no one passes between them (Luke 16:19-31).
Christianity is much, much better than Roman Catholicism makes it out to be.
Meanwhile, Christians have two choices on this holiday. The first is to consider Halloween traditions to be completely divorced from Catholic mythology and its Satanic origins, buy your kid that Elmo outfit, and have a good time. The second is to celebrate Reformation Day, also on October 31, which was when God began to bring his (actual) saints out of the Roman Catholic Church.
There’s a third option, we suppose, which is to reject Halloween (in name only) while you have kids come to church dressed up in costumes of their favorite Bible characters and have them bob for apples. But that’s a dumb option, so ignore that one.
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Simpler than this, one cannot attend a Halloween celebration (I inadvertingly did this past weekend by going to a well known amusement park) without seeing that the holiday is a celebration of death. If we really believe what we say we believe, why would we celebrate death, which is the consequence of sin? Celebrating death is the exact opposite of celebrating Christ risen (Resurrection Sunday), which is obviously our Savior overcoming our sins. We should mourn death and celebrate Christ.
Excellent article. Very informative.
I suspect the origins of the belief in purgatory are derived from trying to explain the fact that on the day of judgement all will be judged both living and dead. Jesus alluded to this, for example Matt 10:15, where He indicates that Sodom and Gomorrah have not yet been judged.
A simple explanation is that God is not bound by time. For the dead, zero time passes from death to judgment day, while here in the physical world thousands of years may have passed since they died. I don’t know. But rather than striving to properly understand the scripture, knowing that it does not conflict, and that for every problem apparent to the imperfect human mind, there exists an explanation that fits it all in context, the “church” of rome just made up a bunch of extra-biblical stuff that isn’t found anywhere in scripture. It is ultimately a rejection of the completeness, sufficiency, and inerrancy of scripture. Which then points back to the Latin Vulgate, and the RCC’s rejection of the original greek manuscripts.
Also, to add, as the article correctly indicates, the Bible is very clear on the fact that witchcraft is indeed very real. It does exist, though there are many fraudsters. One example is Saul consulted the medium, in 1 Sam. 28. As I understand the scripture, it truly was Samuel. We’re not told to stay away from it because it’s fake. We’re told to stay away from it because it is very real, and God says don’t do it.