Halloween is a contraction/diminutive of All Hallows Eve, FFS. It’s the night before All Saints Day. The feast day for all the saints for whom there was no room in the calendar for their own feast day. All Saints Day is also, coincidentally, the day set aside to celebrate, (i.e. eat a meal in honor of), all the departed of one’s own family, who, for the most part would not have not been officially granted “sainthood.”

The thing about Protestants is that they are often utterly unfamiliar with the traditions of the religion their own religions were intended to be a reformation of; it’s infuriating.