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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

In what fictional D-list movie universe do they live in where satan impregnates a bride on Halloween?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also I thought Satan was evil.. wouldnt it make more sense for him to impregnate someone who isn't his bride, perhaps even through non consensual means?

If you're going to be the face of evil might as well do the sin part properly.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Right? At least make it sex before marriage!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Every year. How many anti-Christs are there at this point?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well obviously Satan gets an abortion every time

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

God damnit, take my upvote.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The irony is it probably stems from some pagan belief and has nothing to do with Christianity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Halloween is not a fertility festival, it is a fall harvest festival. Like Oktoberfest.

The fertility festival is in Spring, and it's called May Day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The Oktoberfest is not a fertility festival. It was created to celebrate a royal wedding. The German fertility festival is called „Erntedank“ (~“thanks for the harvest”).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah I know. It just doesn't sound like anything in the Bible so I assume it's some weird bastardization of paganism. Or just completely made up.

I'm only saying this because all the cool parts of "Christian" holidays like the Easter bunny and much of Christmas come straight from paganism.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm familiar with paganism, that doesn't make sense either

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Paganism is just a Christian catch-all though for all non-abrahamic religions.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

umm through the lens of Christianity sure

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It’s a word coined by Christians specifically to convey that idea, so yea that’s usually the lens we’d be talking about when using the term