Dear Readers,
Today is a day where children everywhere dress up as witches and ghosts and go around asking for candy. I do not celebrate Halloween, and I am going to give you my reasons in this blog entry. My obvious reason is the dressing up as these wicked characters. But if you leave out the costumes, my reasons go far deeper. I am a huge history fan, so I'm going to give you some history about Halloween.
First thing, the word 'hallow' means something very holy and sacred; and e'en is a word that basically means 'evening'. It was called that because in the Middle Ages the Roman Catholic "church" celebrated a day called 'All Saints Day' on November first. On this day, they celebrated all their saints from the past. They belived that on the evening before this holy day, all the demons, and satanic powers came out and would try to ruin the next day with nasty tricks, hence the name 'hallow-e'en'. Anyway, they would dress up as these characters and go down the streets with jack'o'lanterns, and try to scare the demons away. That is why I don't celebrate Halloween, and why I don't believe that anyone should. The way it is celebrated has changed over the years, but I believe that it still is a tribute to Satan.
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