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What does a Harlot do? She has sex with others and then she picks up anything they may "have" and bring it back to others and now they are infected with It....

So here's the story (just one) of how the Harlot did just that -we all Know (or should) that Christmas is a pagan holiday and has Nothing to do with Christ or He with it... And once again the Harlot brought this back and introduced it to the body of Christ....Christmas is made up of two words CHRIST and mass - The harlot is busy


Halloween's origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in). The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death. Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. On the night of October 31 they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. In addition to causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts thought that the presence of the otherworldly spirits made it easier for the Druids, or Celtic priests, to make predictions about the future. For a people entirely dependent on the volatile natural world, these prophecies were an important source of comfort and direction during the long, dark winter.

To commemorate the event, Druids built huge sacred bonfires, where the people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities. During the celebration, the Celts wore costumes, typically consisting of animal heads and skins, and attempted to tell each other's fortunes. When the celebration was over, they re-lit their hearth fires, which they had extinguished earlier that evening, from the sacred bonfire to help protect them during the coming winter.

By 43 A.D., the Roman Empire had conquered the majority of Celtic territory. In the course of the four hundred years that they ruled the Celtic lands, two festivals of Roman origin were combined with the traditional Celtic celebration of Samhain. The first was Feralia, a day in late October when the Romans traditionally commemorated the passing of the dead. The second was a day to honor Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit and trees. The symbol of Pomona is the apple and the incorporation of this celebration into Samhain probably explains the tradition of "bobbing" for apples that is practiced today on Halloween.

On May 13, 609 A.D., Pope Boniface IV dedicated the Pantheon in Rome in honor of all Christian martyrs, and the Catholic feast of All Martyrs Day was established in the Western church. Pope Gregory III (731–741) later expanded the festival to include all saints as well as all martyrs, and moved the observance from May 13 to November 1. By the 9th century the influence of Christianity had spread into Celtic lands, where it gradually blended with and supplanted the older Celtic rites. In 1000 A.D., the church would make November 2 All Souls' Day, a day to honor the dead. It is widely believed today that the church was attempting to replace the Celtic festival of the dead with a related, but church-sanctioned holiday. All Souls Day was celebrated similarly to Samhain, with big bonfires, parades, and dressing up in costumes as saints, angels and devils. The All Saints Day celebration was also called All-hallows or All-hallowmas (from Middle English Alholowmesse meaning All Saints' Day) and the night before it, the traditional night of Samhain in the Celtic religion, began to be called All-hallows Eve and, eventually, Halloween.

Halloween Comes to America
Celebration of Halloween was extremely limited in colonial New England because of the rigid Protestant belief systems there. Halloween was much more common in Maryland and the southern colonies. As the beliefs and customs of different European ethnic groups as well as the American Indians meshed, a distinctly American version of Halloween began to emerge. The first celebrations included "play parties," public events held to celebrate the harvest, where neighbors would share stories of the dead, tell each other's fortunes, dance and sing. Colonial Halloween festivities also featured the telling of ghost stories and mischief-making of all kinds. By the middle of the nineteenth century, annual autumn festivities were common, but Halloween was not yet celebrated everywhere in the country.

In the second half of the nineteenth century, America was flooded with new immigrants. These new immigrants, especially the millions of Irish fleeing Ireland's potato famine of 1846, helped to popularize the celebration of Halloween nationally. Taking from Irish and English traditions, Americans began to dress up in costumes and go house to house asking for food or money, a practice that eventually became today's "trick-or-treat" tradition. Young women believed that on Halloween they could divine the name or appearance of their future husband by doing tricks with yarn, apple parings or mirrors.

In the late 1800s, there was a move in America to mold Halloween into a holiday more about community and neighborly get-togethers than about ghosts, pranks and witchcraft. At the turn of the century, Halloween parties for both children and adults became the most common way to celebrate the day. Parties focused on games, foods of the season and festive costumes. Parents were encouraged by newspapers and community leaders to take anything "frightening" or "grotesque" out of Halloween celebrations. Because of these efforts, Halloween lost most of its superstitious and religious overtones by the beginning of the twentieth century.

By the 1920s and 1930s, Halloween had become a secular, but community-centered holiday, with parades and town-wide parties as the featured entertainment. Despite the best efforts of many schools and communities, vandalism began to plague Halloween celebrations in many communities during this time. By the 1950s, town leaders had successfully limited vandalism and Halloween had evolved into a holiday directed mainly at the young. Due to the high numbers of young children during the fifties baby boom, parties moved from town civic centers into the classroom or home, where they could be more easily accommodated. Between 1920 and 1950, the centuries-old practice of trick-or-treating was also revived. Trick-or-treating was a relatively inexpensive way for an entire community to share the Halloween celebration. In theory, families could also prevent tricks being played on them by providing the neighborhood children with small treats. A new American tradition was born, and it has continued to grow. Today, Americans spend an estimated $6 billion annually on Halloween, making it the country's second largest commercial holiday.

Today's Halloween Traditions
The American Halloween tradition of "trick-or-treating" probably dates back to the early All Souls' Day parades in England. During the festivities, poor citizens would beg for food and families would give them pastries called "soul cakes" in return for their promise to pray for the family's dead relatives. The distribution of soul cakes was encouraged by the church as a way to replace the ancient practice of leaving food and wine for roaming spirits. The practice, which was referred to as "going a-souling" was eventually taken up by children who would visit the houses in their neighborhood and be given ale, food, and money.  

The tradition of dressing in costume for Halloween has both European and Celtic roots. Hundreds of years ago, winter was an uncertain and frightening time. Food supplies often ran low and, for the many people afraid of the dark, the short days of winter were full of constant worry. On Halloween, when it was believed that ghosts came back to the earthly world, people thought that they would encounter ghosts if they left their homes. To avoid being recognized by these ghosts, people would wear masks when they left their homes after dark so that the ghosts would mistake them for fellow spirits. On Halloween, to keep ghosts away from their houses, people would place bowls of food outside their homes to appease the ghosts and prevent them from attempting to enter.

Halloween Superstitions
Halloween has always been a holiday filled with mystery, magic and superstition. It began as a Celtic end-of-summer festival during which people felt especially close to deceased relatives and friends. For these friendly spirits, they set places at the dinner table, left treats on doorsteps and along the side of the road and lit candles to help loved ones find their way back to the spirit world. Today's Halloween ghosts are often depicted as more fearsome and malevolent, and our customs and superstitions are scarier too. We avoid crossing paths with black cats, afraid that they might bring us bad luck. This idea has its roots in the Middle Ages, when many people believed that witches avoided detection by turning themselves into cats. We try not to walk under ladders for the same reason. This superstition may have come from the ancient Egyptians, who believed that triangles were sacred; it also may have something to do with the fact that walking under a leaning ladder tends to be fairly unsafe. And around Halloween, especially, we try to avoid breaking mirrors, stepping on cracks in the road or spilling salt.

But what about the Halloween traditions and beliefs that today's trick-or-treaters have forgotten all about? Many of these obsolete rituals focused on the future instead of the past and the living instead of the dead. In particular, many had to do with helping young women identify their future husbands and reassuring them that they would someday—with luck, by next Halloween—be married. In 18th-century Ireland, a matchmaking cook might bury a ring in her mashed potatoes on Halloween night, hoping to bring true love to the diner who found it. In Scotland, fortune-tellers recommended that an eligible young woman name a hazelnut for each of her suitors and then toss the nuts into the fireplace. The nut that burned to ashes rather than popping or exploding, the story went, represented the girl's future husband. (In some versions of this legend, confusingly, the opposite was true: The nut that burned away symbolized a love that would not last.) Another tale had it that if a young woman ate a sugary concoction made out of walnuts, hazelnuts and nutmeg before bed on Halloween night she would dream about her future husband. Young women tossed apple-peels over their shoulders, hoping that the peels would fall on the floor in the shape of their future husbands' initials; tried to learn about their futures by peering at egg yolks floating in a bowl of water; and stood in front of mirrors in darkened rooms, holding candles and looking over their shoulders for their husbands' faces. Other rituals were more competitive. At some Halloween parties, the first guest to find a burr on a chestnut-hunt would be the first to marry; at others, the first successful apple-bobber would be the first down the aisle.

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The harlot resides on 7 Hills -

Did you know

that the popes hat (mitre) is harloted from the DRAGON priest
and when viewed from above it makes the eye of Horus - he is the new age Christ - his eye is the one on our dollar bill... (really it's satans eye) Satan is trying to convience people he is Omnipresent like God (he isn't) that's why it's called the All seeing eye of Horus.

The popes hat also has the star of remphan on it - this is condemned in Act 7:43 (amos5:26)

in saint peters the altar will have a round circle with what is the sun disk on it which is the same as that of Babylon (this site has how Rome is full of sun worship symbols)

http://www.aloha.net/~mikesch/verita.htm


This is still only a small part of the harlots work

[MeMyself]

Wow! Lotsa things bad because of their origins...

what were our origins before Christ redeemed us?

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If you have never heard of the catholic "day of the dead" you haven't seen nothing yet...

Evil to the core - once again this time the harlot got together with the Aztecs evil Gods!
(type in "St paul's day of the dead" it will flip you Catholics accept this as something ok with God.
Below is from a catholic website - the catholic spirit.com


With its grinning skeletons dressed in feathered hats and gowns, jewel-eyed sugar skulls and colorful paper garlands, the Nov. 2 "Día de los Muertos," or Day of the Dead, might appear to many Americans like a Mexican Halloween. But this centuries-old tradition interwoven with Catholicism is much more than a night of ghouls, ghosts and goodies.

The day gets its name from an ancient Aztec belief that the dead could return home to visit their families one day a year. In today's Catholic Mexico, the Day of the Dead is a time for families to gather, remember their ancestors and pray for the souls of the deceased.

"It's not a sad occasion," said Prisciliano Maya, faith formation director at Sacred Heart in St. Paul. "It's a time to remember and celebrate their [ancestors'] lives. It's also about family coming together."

Maya recalled how his family celebrated the Day of the Dead when he was growing up in central Mexico. Early Nov. 1, his father would lead him and his siblings in reciting the rosary. Later that day the family would gather for a meal. Then on Nov. 2 they would spend the day at the cemetery praying and sharing memories of their loved ones.

Memorial altars

Like all immigrant groups, Mexicans brought some of their traditions with them to the U.S. Today, it is not uncommon to find Day of the Dead altars, or "ofrendas," in Catholic churches around the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis on All Saints and All Souls days.

Every year at Sacred Heart and other majority Latino churches in the archdiocese, parishioners place pictures of their dead loved ones, flowers, candles and other symbolic items on multi-tiered Day of the Dead altars. (See graphic above.)

At first many of Sacred Heart's non-Latino parishioners didn't understand the tradition, Franciscan Father Eugene Michel said. But soon after he explained its significance, he was delighted to see them placing their own family photos on the parish's Day of the Dead altar.

On Nov. 1 families in Mexico clean and decorate their loved ones' graves. Many spend the night in the cemetery praying, eating and listening to music.

The Day of the Dead "is all centered around their ancestors," said Father Eugene, who first experienced the tradition years ago when he lived in Mexico for a brief time. "But what's different as opposed to Aztec times is that prayer now enters into the picture. Usually there's a Mass right in the center of the cemetery, where they have an altar."

"In the second eucharistic prayer, it says remember, remember, remember. We're always remembering," Father Eugene said. "And, we say at Eucharist that remembering isn't going back, but it's right now; Christ is present now. So on the Día de los Muertos, when they put all those pictures up, their loved ones are present there. . . . When they gather in the cemetery, their loved ones are present there, too."

On the Day of the Dead, or All Souls Day, Mexican families traditionally place altars in their homes with photos of deceased relatives, food, flowers and symbolic items.

Every year at Sacred Heart in St. Paul, which has a majority Latino membership, parishioners contribute items to a temporary Day of the Dead altar in the church. Religious education teachers also construct an altar, shown above, to teach children about this centuries-long tradition.

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Wow! Lotsa things bad because of their origins...

what were our origins before Christ redeemed us?

your line of reasoning makes no sense...

Before we were pagan but after we are Christ
putting away pagan things and ways

the RCC has brought this into the Body of Christ (his true church) thus combining pagan ways with a God who hates them!


There's a huge difference between the 2.....

[MeMyself]

Wow! Lotsa things bad because of their origins...

what were our origins before Christ redeemed us?

your line of reasoning makes no sense...

Before we were pagan but after we are Christ
putting away pagan things and ways

the RCC has brought this into the Body of Christ (his true church) thus combining pagan ways with a God who hates them!


There's a huge difference between the 2.....

nope. Not really.  God is in the redemption business.  What used to be the focus is no longer.    There is no condemnation...

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Ok whatever dude...

When you go to the church of Satan in California - you know it has nothing to do with christ but is pagan....

When you go to the RCC you think your getting Jesus but your really getting the pagan ways

and that's what makes it so bad.... People are fooled...



Memyself what you last replied about condemnation has NOTHING to do with teaching false pagan ways and things..... You simply are over your head on this....

Make excuses for evil pagan ways brought into people who are told this is of God but it is of the devil



To bad you can't understand that

[MeMyself]

Ok whatever dude...

When you go to the church of Satan in California - you know it has nothing to do with christ but is pagan....

I think we are both smart enough to know I was not speaking of "the church of Satan" no longer being pagan.  Come on...that's quite the stretch to make your point. 

Memyself what you last replied about condemnation has NOTHING to do with teaching false pagan ways and things..... You simply are over your head on this....

Sure sounded like condemnation. Telling people what they really worship, as if you know.   

To bad you can't understand that