According to some sources Halloween is the mixture of feast from both Pagan and Christian civilizations. Firstly, existed in Pagan Celtic Civilization, then influenced by Christian Romans. And today including ours, a lot of civilizations celebrates this event.
I think it is stupit that celebrating the pagan-christian feast as a Muslim. Some people claims that such feasts have benefits and positive effects on economy.But it is not the money I want to earn by imitating the other religions.
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YanıtlaSilthis is toooo short. i think you did not search enough.
why is it important for people? what do you think?
I have researched its existance, but it sounds illogical for me. I mean it is not a living belief. It is a tradition which is accumulated from different cultures. It existed in Celtic civilization 2000 years before. They used to believe that their death relatives or their ancestors comes to visit them. If we think the time it celebrated, it sounds better. Because it is (31st of Oct.) the time which universally represents the date the last times of peoples lifes. For example,almost all poets and authors used the dates beginning of winter to represent the last times of human life. Can you imagine is it sounds like death? But they do not care it only for the celtic beliefs. After Roman Conquest the tradition combined with their harvest festival. Then Christianization of Britan again it combined with "All hollow Eve" after Catolic Church had announced 1st of Nov. as saints day. It changed into Hallowen.
YanıtlaSilYou asked me "Why it is important for people?". It is important for them because they believe in their ancestors comes to visit them. Sometimes people can not live their religions fully but thinking that their beloved ones, or ancestors who they show respect comes to visit them, it is different it is more than a religion for them. We can say it is a belief or obligation.