On 10/31/2011 12:37 PM, Darren New wrote:
> On 10/29/2011 1:45, Warp wrote:
>> Ten years ago Halloween was completely inexistent in Finland.
>
> Doesn't Finland have a harvest celebration, tho? Like Thanksgiving and
> Mid-Autumn Festival and stuff like that? That's really all Halloween is,
> except some Christians went and dressed it up in evil icons because it
> was the pagan version of the holiday.
>
Yeah, basically what they did, more or less. Would be, actually, more 
accurate to say that, all over Europe, and I doubt Finland was any 
different, if there was a harvest festival, and it was pagan, they 
*claimed* it was Satanic, involved witchcraft, and therefor, as per the 
re-write done in the KJV, one shouldn't suffer such people to live. The 
only reason I can see Finland not having such a day is if its a) at a 
different time, or b) the Christians where actually successful at ending 
them. Mostly, they almost managed that everyplace, but, for various 
reasons, new superstitions replaced the old ones, and instead of 
celebrating "harvest" they started dressing up to scare off, or confuse, 
"demons". One thing Christianity was almost as good at as the Romans was 
mangling other people's festivals, distorting their meaning, then 
co-opting them for their own purposes. But, in the end, *any* harvest 
festival pretty much "is" Halloween, we just ended up with the version 
that included costumes and candy.

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