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just another reason the 13 month calendar is great
If you read the article it gets even worse: the headline says they're giving it a permanent date but it's exactly the opposite: they're taking away it being October 31st and making it the last Friday of October every year. Somehow they call that making it a permanent date lmfao. >

I am baffled as to why they feel this needs to happen >

No school for kids the next day. So many reasons. >

r/weirdshitmormonsdo >

Might as well do the same for Christmas as December 25th is just a guess anyway. >

December 25 isn’t a guess — it’s a compromise.  The original date, based off a different calendar no less, was the winter solstice as an attempt to stifle pagan solstice ceremonies.  The problem was, most people preferred the pagan parties to the Christ Mass ceremonies, so they moved the day forward to the 25th.
Then the western world changed from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar and those dates began to drift.
This is why Eastern Orthodox Christmas and New Years (as celebrated in Russia and Ukraine) don’t line up with the western equivalents.
Now, back to Halloween, or All Hallows Evening: it’s the night before All Saints Day, when the Catholic and Anglican and Lutheran churches recognize all the Christians (saints) who have made significant contributions to the faith.  Halloween was thought to be the night evil did its best to claim souls before the second holiest day in the Christian calendar (behind Easter, the only major day actually linked to the time of the year when the event commemorated actually occurred, other than pentecost). >

I always love learning about the fucked up histories of some of my fondest childhood holidays. 🥲