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Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thanks for being here. It is October 31st. So it is time for my annual lament about the holiday season and what the holidays have become in our secular pagan country. All of the holy days that we have on our calendar used to be, I should say to right, all of our holidays

that we still have on our calendar used to be holy days. It's a better way of putting it. Thanksgiving

started off as a day of prayer and fasting. Fasting. Thanksgiving used to be a day of not eating. And now it's a day of football and gluttony.

Christmas was about the birth of Jesus. Now it's Santa and presents. Easter was about the

resurrection of Jesus. Now it's an Easter bunny and eggs. St. Patrick's Day even. It was a day. Patrick, or Patrick was this

guy. He's born in England. It's not even an Irish. And he was abducted and he was put on a

slave ship to Ireland and he spent six years there. And then he escaped to his home country,

became a Christian, went back to the people who enslaved him to spread the gospel to these lost people. And now it's drink

green beer and pinch me. So I was like, this hit me, I think it's like five years ago. And it was

around Halloween. I've never really liked Halloween. But it was like especially meaningless.

Whatever shred of meaning there even was. And I was like, this is really, like, what is this? Like, what is this

silly thing? And I looked it up and turn, Halloween is all hollow's Eve. Hollow meaning

sacred.

Webster's original dictionary definition, 1828, to make holy.

Hollow means to make holy, to consecrate, to set apart for holy or religious use,

to devote to holy or religious exercises, to treat as sacred, as in our father,

hollowed be thy name.

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