Many Evangelical churches are having “Hallelujah” parties to give the kids an alternative to the ugly and scary occultic images with which so many infantile adults now decorate their homes.
My little conservative Southern Baptist church used to to take us on haunted hay rides and once took us to a cemetery for ghost stores when I was a child. Was that “occultic”? LOL. Seriously though, I think everything looks darker these days to discerning believers because our culture is so hostile to anything resembling biblical Christianity. Even Christmas is godless. Just a different country than thirty, forty, years ago.