So what are some of the practices that these people who practice Dia de los Muertos or
Day of the Dead, what is it that they practice?
Well number one, they practice this matter of constructing altars or what they call altares
to honor the dead.
Altars are often decorated with an array of flowers, fruits and favorite foods, candles,
Day of the Dead bread, skeletons and skulls.
Oh very nice, isn't it?
It's just to use all that to honor the dead, it's a very nice thing to use.
Child altars are filled with candy and toys, whereas liquor and cigarettes are left for
the adults for their long journey back.
Yeah that's really honoring, you know.
Let's put some pot right here, let's put some Marlboro cigarettes right here and some liquor
which probably killed this person, right?
Due to cirrhosis of the liver.
Well let's see what the Bible says about altars here.
You're in Deuteronomy chapter 12 verse number 1.
The Bible says here, these are the statutes and judgments which ye shall observe to do
in the land, which the Lord God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it all the days that
ye live upon the earth.
Ye shall utterly destroy all the places wherein the nations which ye shall possess serve their
gods upon the high mountains and upon the hills and under every green tree.
And ye shall overthrow their altars and break their pillars and burn their groves with fire
and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods and destroy the names of them out
of that place.
What is it saying?
I don't want nothing to do with this.
That's what God's saying.
When you come into a land and you see the altars where they worship their false gods,
tear it down, burn it, I don't want nothing to do with it.
And let me say this, there's places here in Los Angeles, especially in Detroit, where
altars are not just in the homes of people, they're in the streets.
I mean there's people who say, yeah we fill the streets with altars so all the spirits
can just roam and come into the homes, I mean that's wicked.