The ghoulishness of Hallowe’en?

I am not interested in that, I am speaking of the Christian Church now not hundreds of years ago.

For those who are grieving I promise you All Souls Day is to pray for the dearly departed .

So back to the prior post about halloween being anti-christian . It can't be. The Church joined in and adopted its own variations of it.

Halloween in not part of the Christian faith .

May as well bring up witch trials . Most of us have moved on

This may be QI for some of you.

www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/holydays/halloween_1.shtml

Extra prayers for the dead are very much still practiced around halloween in many christiam churches so variations of Halloween IS part of the christian faith for many christians.

The 7th century , that really is living in the past is it not

Well the Bible itself is pretty much from the ancient past!

Aw, so it didn’t win the Booker Prize , that’s a pity

annie ! I was just pointing out that if you thought 7th Century was living in the past the Bible was even older!

www.bibleinfo.com/en/questions/it-wrong-celebrate-halloween

Apples and pumpkins are part of Hallowe'en because it was when the Celts celebrated the harvest.
The various Roman, Celtic, Christian festivals have all been combined over the years for pragmatic purposes - ie the Christian church using the dates of pagan festivals to encourage people to change over to Christianity.

Er........Graham Norton is a agony uncle?!

Thank you Jalima

Yup, he can be read on the back pge of the DT on Saturdays and the advice he gives is thoughtful and caring.

Oh thanks MOnica - I’ll have to check that out in MILs paper tomorrow - I like him

It is the back page of the section of the newspaper called 'Saturday', or .Week End'. I think they changed it recently, but one or the other. DH buys the Saturday DT intermittently. Only on weekends when he thinks he will have time to read it.

I am giving a Halloween party for my grandchildren and some of their friends. Yes, there will be an element of shrieking and shivering, but there will not be anything ghoulish or truly frightening. We shall hang artificial spider webs from the rafters in the lounge – I do hope that will not be the day the agent comes round to inspect the house – and have food with names that create a frisson and a giggle. We shall play noughts and crosses in the garden with green and white squash, have a [plastic} spider race by blowing with straws, a colouring competition (age appropriate) with harmless and unalarming pictures. It will be a couple of hours of light-hearted nonsense for ages three to eleven and the plan is that everyone goes home having had fun and plenty of slightly unusual things to eat and no one has nightmares. P.s. I make mean edible witches brooms with pretzel broomsticks and slivered sliced cheese for brushes, tied on with chives and the monster bones are made of meringue.