"WTF?" story of the day, preacher claims Halloween began on Noah's Ark.

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Is this even *IN* the Bible?

Swanson: Halloween Comes From Noah's Flood

Submitted by Brian Tashman on Friday, 11/1/2013 1:00 pm

We’re sorry that our post on Kevin Swanson’s Halloween special came too late for anyone who already took part in the demon sex holiday, but the Colorado pastor has some important anthropological findings that we need to share. According to Swanson, Halloween actually goes back to Noah’s Flood. He claims that Noah’s son Ham celebrated the dead from the flood as part of his rejection of God and that Halloween and similar holidays are really a way to ignore God by celebrating “the departed souls and spirits of those who had vanquished in the Flood.”

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/swanson-halloween-comes-noahs-flood#sthash.SFiWnYn7.dpuf

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1. based on responses from DUers on the Demonic possession thread

I would say that quite a few DUers would buy this story ... hook, line and sinker ...

[Historic NY]

2. Yeah they played trick or treat with the animals...

Somehow I don't think the lions were amused.

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3. Nope. Not in the Bible at all.

Halloween is an English language corruption of "All Hallow's Eve". Hallow as in the sense of "hallowed ground". Today, for Catholics is All Saint's Day. It is a day to respectfully remember the honored dead. In tradition, it is the day that Noah's flood began, but that is tradition only, no reference in Scripture. All Hallow's Eve was believed to be an evening when Satan showed his disrespect for the honored dead.