Wouldn’t a church celebrating the mentioned “harvest festival” be rather, well, pagan?
Gag on a gnat, swallow a camel
They look forward to not celebrating it, every year.
Lots of churches provide a Halloween-like alternative in a Christian setting. This guy could have developed constructive alternatives for his family in far less time than it took to write this screed.
Berman makes the false assumption that in order to enjoy or celebrate Halloween you must enjoy or celebrate darkness, mayhem, the demonic, etc. Keep your Halloween more Monster Mash than Friday the 13th (better yet, keep it All Saints oriented), and you’ll be fine.
Oh, bull cr@p.
When my kids were young we had great times at our church's harvest carnivals and then canvassed the local neighborhoods for as much sweet loot as they could gather.
It depends on whether the Christian parents have their priorities right and just let their kids have fun once in awhile.
To the best of my knowledge neither one of my adult kids are satanists.
Somebodies confusing Halloween with the Demoncratic Party
I ignore haloween as best I can.
I live in a nice quiet neighborhood with a bunch of 2nd generation (grand)kids. They’re all well behaved. I enjoy participating in trick~or~treat to see the joy on the little kids faces. When that goes away so will I.
You bore me.
Now we have people here telling us to stop celebrating Halloween. What’s next?
Then he shouldnt celebrate christmas or easter either as they are both pagan holidays as well.
We did decorate this year. Our house and yard accurately reflects the people who live in our area. Cold, dead, haunted souls who vote democrat.
I won’t flame you, I’ll just tell you how we deal with Halloween as Christians. Just as Christ transformed Death into Life, we make Halloween a celebration of Life. We dress up as our heroes, our house is bathed in light (not spooky decorations). We give out candy and little toys with positive messages. We take the opportunity to meet the neighbors and their children. And we send off each visitor with “God bless!”
Christ called us to be the Light of the World. Not to merely curse the darkness.
” I and my wife simply oppose the values that go along with Halloween—the celebration of darkness, horror, fear, and mayhem. “
Yes, I see...
Often, when 2 year-olds come to my front door, dressed a princess, I see right through their guise to their true intent - celebrating DARKNESS!!! And HORROR!!!!! AND FEAR!!!! And MAYHEM (like that insurance commercial!!!)!!!!
Oh, they try to hide it. I often see their parents lurking out by the street, the blood dripping from their evil zombie mouths, barely hidden in the darkness.
Lighten up Francis!
Growing up Catholic, we celebrated Halloween because Oct. 31 was “All Hallows Eve,” the night before “All Saints Day” (Nov. 1).
“Hallow” means “holy.”
I agree that the way it’s celebrated these days doesn’t seem very holy. But I read somewhere that people used to dress up as the saints - in the way the saints (many of whom were martyrs) died. That might explain some of the gruesomeness of Halloween.
Oh okay. Now I understand. There’s a hefty chunk of Catholic-bashing in your article. Ugh.
By that logic the author shouldn’t celebrate that pagan festival that has taken on the name Christmas.....
Sheesh.
Let the kids dress up as ballerinas or tigers and go get candy.