Ep 697 | Revealing the Real Origins of Halloween | Guests: Jeremiah Roberts & Andrew Soncrant (Cultish)

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey

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News, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, News Commentary

4.6 • 19.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Today we’re joined again by Jeremiah Roberts and Andrew Soncrant, hosts of the podcast "Cultish," this time to discuss the origins of Halloween and how Christians should view the holiday. We look at Samhain, a Gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest season, and its origins and true meaning, as well as how it has historically been linked to Halloween's origins. We also talk about Guy Fawkes Day and the history of trick or treat and ultimately ask the question: Should Christians celebrate Halloween? If so, where is the line between celebrating death and gore and celebrating a kid-friendly festive holiday? We talk about the importance of understanding that we're in a cultural free fall into neo-Paganism and how this might contribute to our understanding and celebration of Halloween. What does good discernment look like in this context? Check out the Cultish website and Instagram! --- Timecodes: [01:11] New stickers! [02:06] Interview with Jeremiah & Andrew begins [14:43] How did Halloween develop into a holiday celebrating death? [20:02] Basing convictions on historical reality [25:31] Satanic panic [30:13] Discernment for the Christian [37:10] Reclaiming Halloween [45:00] Origins of Saimhain's false connection to Halloween --- Today's Sponsors: CrowdHealth — get your first 6 months for just $99/month. Use promo code 'ALLIE' when you sign up at JoinCrowdHealth.com. Hunter Douglas — get your free Style Gets Smarter design guide at HunterDouglas.com/ALLIE today! Patriot Mobile — go to PatriotMobile.com/ALLIE or call 972-PATRIOT and use promo code 'ALLIE' to get free activation! Covenant Eyes — protect you and your family from the things you shouldn't be looking at online. Go to coveyes.com/ALLIE to try it FREE for 30 days! --- Previous Episodes: Ep 666 | Confronting the Occult, Demonic Symbolism & Witchcraft | Guests: Jeremiah Roberts & Andrew Soncrant (Cultish) https://apple.co/3zf0M3P Ep 216 | The Rise of Millennial Witches https://apple.co/3TNMsao Ep 170 | Is It OK to Celebrate Halloween? https://apple.co/3TT6osm --- "R.I.P. ROE" Sticker: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey/products/rip-roe-sticker "Go VOTE" Sticker: https://shop.blazemedia.com/products/vote-sticker?pr_prod_strat=use_description&pr_rec_id=6552e1052&pr_rec_pid=7931910291709&pr_ref_pid=7926489317629&pr_seq=uniform --- Buy Allie's book, You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love: https://alliebethstuckey.com/book Relatable merchandise – use promo code 'ALLIE10' for a discount: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	should Christians celebrate Halloween? The answer that you're going to get on today's episode
0:06.5	of relatable with my friends from the Coltish podcast might surprise you. They are going to take us
0:12.6	through the interesting history of Halloween, the true origins of Halloween that you probably
0:20.0	have not heard before. I had not heard it. I learned a lot today. Your perspective on Halloween
0:26.8	might stay the same after this conversation or it might change, but I guarantee you will learn
0:32.3	something that you did not know before. This is not only a fascinating conversation about history,
0:39.1	but it's also an insightful conversation about the gospel, about Christians' responsibility to be
0:45.7	a light in the darkness, what that looks like, the difference between paranoia and isolationism,
0:52.0	and being in the world, but not of the world, and living in a way that understands and believes
0:59.4	that Jesus is really king over all of it. So I know that you are going to love this. Before we
1:06.2	get into the conversation, a couple things, shout out to two new stickers that we have. We'll put
1:11.6	them up on YouTube. If you're watching, we've got our rip row sticker. We've also got our vote sticker.
1:17.5	These are five dollars. Get them. Pass them out to your friends, especially the voting ones. This
1:21.7	could be a great conversation starter with your conservative friends who maybe are a little bit
1:26.0	apathetic. Use this podcast. Use the resources that we provide to educate your friends about why
1:32.3	politics matters so much. There's so much at stake in all of your areas in all of your states.
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1:44.2	you listen. Make sure you subscribe on YouTube as well. As always, this episode is brought to you by
1:49.1	our friends at GoodRangerers. Go to GoodRangerers.com. Slash Ali. Now, here are our friends from Coltish,
1:55.3	Jeremiah and Andrew.
2:06.2	All right, guys. Thanks so much for joining again. Today, I want to talk to you guys about a few
2:12.2	things, one of them being the origins of Halloween. As you know, there's a lot of disagreement
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