Halloween should this holiday be celebrated or reconsidered? Halloween is a time to go out and have fun, collect and eat candy, and dress up to deliver or receive a great scare right? Wrong, this idea is what most Americans believe Halloween is all about. In reality the truth behind the reasons of why Halloween is celebrated are hardly ever discussed. According to William Schnoebeian, author of "Lucifer Dethroned" he states that when people take part in celebrating Halloween they are opening the door to Satanism. On the day of Halloween many satanic rituals and sacrifices are made to Satan. Many of these sacrifices include children and animals of all sizes. Americans are blinded by the great costume parties and the sugary mouths and they are not aware of what they are really participating in when they celebrate this horrific holiday.
             Although not popular until the 1800's, Halloween dates back to 200 B.C. A tribe called the Celts was the first to commence the original Halloween customs. The Celts were described as terrifying people who hung human heads. Halloween was called Samhain and was the holiday celebrated above all. Samhain was the Celtic lord of death, Halloween was the festival used to celebrate him. The celebration represented the beginning of the cold season when days grew darker sooner. The Celtics believed that this season represented death. They also believed that the souls of the dead returned to their homes on earth on October 31. The Druids, priests, and teachers ordered all the people to create bonfires on the evening of this celebration. Druids are the priests of the Celtic religion. The word bonfire also dates back to these days when the word originally was "bone-fire". This word referred to the large bonfires that contained burned animals, crops, and human beings. The reason they created these bonfires was to help the sun survive the winter, to frighten off evil spirits, a...