Happy Halloween

You have to admire the consistency of the christian fundamental religious right. After 2,000 years of ‘borrowing’ then demonizing aboriginal belief systems, they have come full circle celebrating the Celtic holiday Samhain with a supposedly traditional harvest festival. Let us look at some history.

In order to covert the middle eastern mainstream, the early christian propaganda machine changed Jesus’s birthday to December 25th to match the celebration of the birth of the older deity, Mithras.

When attempting to make inroads in western Europe, church strategists were confronted with a intricate and well-established belief system; first by demonizing the old gods and goddesses where possible, then by using Mary to replace the traditional Mother Goddess. Local holidays were used as well. The spring fertility festival of Ostara with its symbols of eggs, chicks and rabbits was given the name of Easter and linked with the resurrection story. Other celebrations were stolen as well. The Sabbath of Imbolic was renamed the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary.

In the 1500’s when reluctant locals still refused to abandon their traditional beliefs, the christian church orchestrated the executions of as many as 300,000 people, most of them women, to bring the rest of the population under control. Over the last few years, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have been killed for the same reason. What do you expect from a religion that uses a Roman execution device to inspire hope?

The christian church has a long history of such deception, murder, and duplicity. Hard to imagine how a religion based on these principles managed to make such inroads into mainstream American politics, …or is it?