Get rid of satanic-inspired Halloween. Analyze your holidays and entertainment.
The Book of Mormon was written for our day. The only people that read the Book of Mormon are generally just Mormons. It mentions repenting of murders. It is easy to look at worldly people who commit violent crimes. Is it possible that within the faith, some people are connected to murder without even realizing it? It is not easy to be 100% righteous in today's modern society. It takes courage and humility to take a look at this issue.
Sometimes things creep into our minds or habits. Light and Dark comes in shades. Violent acts are criminal, and simulated violence in media or entertainment, is never recommended. The Sixth Commandment says, Thou shalt not kill. Killing is prohibited in Exodus 20, Deut. 6, Mosiah 13, 3rd Nephi 12, and D&C 42. A person who watches a violent show or game has mentally participated in it, even if it seems to be like really small seeds put into dry soil, in the mind. Will those seeds ever be watered by unfortunate circumstances and temptations down the road?
Then there's Halloween. The whole month of October on TV and other entertainment media is geared towards spooks (unclean spirits) and horror (simulation of fear, dark, violence, and murder), witches, and witchcraft "sorcery" (which the Book of Mormon and Old Testament condemn). Halloween celebrates graves, spider webs, decay and death. The excess of candy rots the teeth and makes the dentist richer; it weakens the immune system, causes inflammation inside the body, leading to disease. It causes mood swings and behavior problems (ask a school teacher about the day after Halloween). Some costumes are bad also. I can't imagine the Savior embracing or suggesting the holiday as okay.
There are other dark aspects to Halloween. LDS Missionaries are instructed to stay indoors at home during Halloween night because of spiritual reasons and potential physical harm. Some people engage in witchcraft, human trafficking, or satanic ritual during this holiday, and this has gone on historically too. Halloween can also harm people that are more prone to depression.
Observance of Halloween also may make a person more likely to choose abortion in consequence of immoral acts which have led to unplanned, maybe unwanted pregnancy. What about voting for people who wholeheartedly support abortion? Abortion is violence against the unborn, because that life is severed. Are more "seeds" in the mind or heart being created? A person will one day have to answer to God for their support of abortion. There are solutions besides abortion that one should seek when there is an ill-timed or unwanted pregnancy. Society should also be more supportive of unmarried chastity and support for unwed/unwanted parenthood when morals fail. An unborn baby is an innocent life and should not pay for others' wrongdoings.
Please pray about these topics. Meditate upon general entertainment and music choices and try to make changes. This fellowship group will not support Halloween.
October. Octo = eight. Halloween was adopted by Christianity, but it also has pagan roots, much which was not good (information on the internet). Pagan roots can go back to ancient times. Halloween used to be on the full moon of the eighth month of the old calendar.
Sept = 7, Oct = 8, Nov = 9, Dec = 10. It was standardized later on, to October 31st.
In the Bible, the 14th or 15th day (the middle of the month), was a Full Moon.
In the Old Testament: 1 Kings 12: 28-33, The rebellious Ephraimite King Jeroboam, instituted an idolatrous worship on that day, the full moon of October (15th day of the eighth month). Now, not a lot was said about it, except that it was calf worship, a feast, incense, and that the King made it up, but it may have been a predecessor to something related eventually, to Halloween. Ba'al is connected to Samhain (ancient Halloween) and Baal was one of the false dieties of the Old Testament.
Halloween needs to be replaced for some people, not just eliminated. Some have a party at home for friends (eat food or do something else fun), some go bowling, others celebrate Reformers Day (Martin Luther and his 95 Theses) or Shekinah holiday of light.
Go to the temple, that's another idea. Some people treat Halloween just as another day and avoid it all together. Consider saving tasteful costumes for Purim.
p.s. Several decades ago, research was done and it was found out that subliminal programming was used in the movies and/or TV, visual images inserted into the picture frames at various intervals. There is a reason why things are called "programs." Are we being programmed as people? Satan is called the Prince of the Air in the New Testament. Airwaves to the mind. We all need entertainment but should take a look at our choices. It gets difficult of course when your loved ones aren't "on the same page." Satan is using media to get us to do things we shouldn't, and to lower our spirituality.
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