Gee, when I was in school, our church held an annual Halloween party for the Sunday Schoolers. It was one more party for us, near a holiday that ranked second only to Christmas in kid fun. No body told *me* it was about death and paganism and worshipping the ‘wrong thing’.
It was about being able to come up with a costume and make it somehow with Mom’s help and whatever we had around the house, walking the streets at night (not *that* kind of streetwalking, lol) which was always a treat with Mom and Dad and getting some candy, only a small part of which we even ate. It was *having* it that was the fun part, and spending a night doing something unusual en famille.
“It was about being able to come up with a costume and make it somehow with Mom’s help and whatever we had around the house, walking the streets at night (not *that* kind of streetwalking, lol) which was always a treat with Mom and Dad and getting some candy, only a small part of which we even ate. It was *having* it that was the fun part, and spending a night doing something unusual en famille.”
Absolutely. I was in my thirties before I found out people thought of Halloween as anything other than costumes and trick or treating. People can and will find evil in anything. One of my daughters friends gave her a Christmas gift one year but told her not to take the stickers off the gift wrap, there were devil symbols on the paper, upside down crosses. After the kid left, I peeled the stickers off to see what she was talking about and it was peace symbols. Now, if you can find evil in a peace symbol, you can find evil in anything.