An issue came about today in my 20th world topics clbum. (Why? I don’t know) But anyway, middle schools don’t celebrate Halloween here, they have a “Fall festivity”

Is this ridiculous or what? They’re trying to kill Halloween, and why? There’s nothing wrong with it. we don’t go around worshiping Satanic figures and such.

Seriously, what’s the point? =/

I wikied it

Halloween has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain (Irish pronunciation: [ˈsˠaunʲ]; from the Old Irish samain).[1] The festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture, and is sometimes[2] regarded as the “Celtic New Year.”[3] Traditionally, the festival was a time used by the ancient Celtic pagans to take stock of supplies and slaughter livestock for winter stores. The ancient Gaels believed that on October 31, now known as Halloween, the boundary between the living and the deceased dissolved, and the dead become dangerous for the living by causing problems such as sickness or damaged crops. The festivals would frequently involve bonfires, into which bones of slaughtered livestock were thrown. Costumes and masks were also worn at the festivals in an attempt to mimic the evil spirits or placate them.

I don’t get it, what is it celebrating?

XXXAndre Posted:

I dunno…all I know is Halloween is really a woman's genitals holiday. In fact it shouldn’t be a holiday.

It shouldn’t be considered a holiday if no one gets off school anyway. =/

I think they don’t wanna celebrate it because it’s a heathen tradition. but if you follow that logic, those schools might as well not celebrate Christmas because in reality Christmas has never been about Christ but was in fact a heathen holiday that Christians took over to make Christianity more appealing to the heathen tribes celebrating it. (I think it were Germanic tribes)