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.
A harvest festival celebrates reaping crops as the fruits of one’s labor. It is connected to the reality of life as a cycle of birth, death, & renewal. Nothing morbid about that.
Yes, by mocking symbols of death like ghosts & graveyards we lose our fear of those things. But since Halloween is followed by All Saints’ Day, it is by its nature an unholy bacchanal or witches’ sabbath of those damned souls unhonored by the holy festival of the following day.
The Church recognized this & created November 2nd as All Souls’ Day for those not believed to be saints.
Yes, kids running door to door collecting candy is harmless or at least it used to be. Nowadays, kids trick-or-treating need adult protection; things are not as safe for children as they once were.
Food for thought: our town paper today published curfews for Halloween. Those fifteen & under must be off the streets by 11:00 p.m. Those up to age 17 must be indoors by 1:00 a.m. I’ll bet the chief of police is having drama with the mayor over those ungodly hours. She’s up for reelection next week, BTW.
Not being stick-in-the-mud; go forth & have a great time, folks! I’ll still leave my front porch lights off.