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The Facts on Halloween (The Facts On Series)

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Yeah, yeah... the "dread Lord Samhain" myth rears it's ugly head again. There was no god called Samhain or Druidic sacrifices for it. Samhain is a celtic word meaning "end of summer" Halloween started as a Harvest festival. If he can't even get the origins of the holiday right, why bother believing a word of it? Ridiculous.

everyone needs to read this book. Halloween is not an innocent fun day. It is filled with spiritual power of an evil nature. Before you laugh, give this information a chance. The author is highly respected. He is a researcher for the truth.

If you're looking for a thoughtful, serious, and balanced nonfiction treatment of Halloween, you will need to look elsewhere. While the title promises the facts on one of our more popular holidays, the book actually offers an unbalanced, fundamentalist Christian friendly "interpretation" (in heavy quotation marks) of Halloween.

But take heart: if you like the idea that some people are afraid of what has become a very secular, nondenominational holiday and you're willing to pass on folkloric content, historical richness, and, finally, critical thinking to get it, this could well be the book you're looking for.

The title says it all. Irresponsible to even publish this as fact. Take this volume as seriously as you would take a fundamentalist Christian's view on homosexuality and a woman's right to choose.

I think this is a great book.It tells how they came up with the name Halloween and the legend of the Jack-o-lantern. I would recomend this book to Christians that have mixed feelings about Halloween.

Too many times we find books written by Christians that think they're experts on certain topics because they've read the Bible. This has a nice but filtered history of Halloween. Unfortunately, halfway through the book, the authors get sidetracked & start to tackle every subject but Halloween. And then, after trying to prove to the reader that Halloween is evil & should not be participated in by any Christian, they give parents a list of things to keep you child safe if going out trick or treating. Halloween is not evil, & is a fun time of year. Some people just like to ruin it for the rest of us.

After reading the book , just to see what "christians" think of a Pagan Holiday, I find the authors to be very Ill Informed about the "True" Pagan meaning of "Halloween" or better know as "Samhain" it is really too bad that they had to bring evil into it, as we Pagans have no evil intentions on this sacred day. It is when we honor all those who have passed on before us. There is no evil here, only in the minds of the authors. It is too bad "Christians" are fed so much B.S. by the leaders they are suppose to trust the most.As for the Jack`O Lantern lore, it has a history of just lending light and back in the Celtic days, it was never evil. A gourd was carved out ( no faces, only a hole) it was ment to protect the candle from being blown out by the wind. The Christians are the one that gave it a evil meaning, as they have to most Pagan traditions, including Christmas.Please read a book or two from a Pagan history and you will find a very diffrent way of looking at this Holiday. I find the authors to be very Bias... But then again , Most Christian writers are.

We purchased this little booklet about 12 years ago when we faced the decision of whether or not celebrating Halloween is something Christians should do. Nobody told us what to think or how we should respond. We researched the topic ourselves, and we found this booklet to be the most thorough explanation of the "holiday." If you are not a Christian, then don't bother reading this because it isn't something that concerns you. However, if you are Christian parents, and for some reason feel like there just isn't something right about celebrating Halloween, I highly recommend this booklet. Read it with an open mind and heart and let the Holy Spirit do the rest of the work in you. If you can read this and truly take the Scripture references seriously, pray about what God would have you do, and then still consciously participate in this pagan festival, then so be it. We surely couldn't!

Buy this book if you are a religious nut. Otherwise, don't waste your money listening to their spin on an innocent holiday. Ohh, the devil is behind it all!!! Grow up!

John Ankerberg and John Weldon tell it like it is in a way that is not intemidating. One can read for themselves the truth about halloween and decide for themselves what they are going to do with it.