To avoid the Genetic Fallacy, we should go by Halloween’s current meaning and context. While it has some pagan elements, other holidays also have pagan elements, and I haven’t seen hardly any Christians (except fringe ones) trying to shut down Easter Egg hunts at their church.
If I were of the kingdom of darkness, I would love articles such as this.
Wow, I could not possibly disagree with this author more. This celebration of death and evil which seems to becoming increasingly dark and popular is a sign that our culture is rapidly descending into the pit of hell.
The day was set aside to honor the Christian saints, eve day of, which is November 1, All Saints Day.
Eve of all Hallows!
Saw the article and the reasons presented are not that bad.
**Some Christians are wary of Halloween because it’s not explicitly Christian. **
Beg your pardon for this mistake in your article.
Halloween is the Eve of all Hallows. The evening before All Saints. It is not pagan.
Actually, I USED to like Halloween and really had fun with it. That was before Obama. I used to buy near $300 worth of candy and I sat on my porch and I gave the kiddies a handful of candy for each “Trick or Treat”....especially the little ones early in the evening from my sub division. I was known as “the best house in the whole subdivision.”
Then it became very apparent that all manner of ilk traveled with their offspring and pillow cases and hit the “cheese lines”.
I tolerated this because I at least knew they were Americans and they had least put some kind of effort into their costumes. When it got to the point much of what I saw after the early little girls and boys and mommies and daddies who really worked at making it an experience to remember for their children - who taught them manners, go to be illegals and their children with NO costumes, no greeting (a pillow case held out), no thank you, I quit. My house has been dark on Halloween for two years - it will be this year.
I won’t have any candy until Obama and the illegals are gone. (or at least after dark when the little kiddies here in the subdivision have been through)
I hate it when some people go too far with the gore theme. I saw a picture of a fake decomposed body in a fake electric chair, with little kids looking at it! What the hell is the matter with the parents who encourage their kids to look at that? What is this unnatural fascination with gore and putrid death?
Let’s stick with the silly masks, the pumpkins, the witch hats, black cats and the candy, and dump the blood, guts, graves and putrifying flesh.
We don’t get any trick or treaters here anyways
Halloween is definitely something Christians should not get too into.
3 Reasons Why Halloween Is Stupid – Part 1
Strong is the Puritanism on this thread.
Because it’s fun.
I liked Halloween when it was a nice little, innocuous holiday, with neighborhood kids trick-or-treating, and folks putting out jack-o-lanterns. I remember as a kid, putting a simple sheet over my head, and going trick-or-treating as a ghost. Not all that disimilar to the way things were portrayed in “Meet Me in St. Louis,” depicting the late-1800s/early-1900s turn-of-the-century days.
But it has been getting increasingly unseemly, with so many people turning it into a big production, almost like an anti-Christmas holiday with some emphasizing a celebration of bad behavior and darker natures, and adults going in for tacky, sexy costumes. A lot of it also seems to coincide with the way the ‘horror’ genre tended to gradually switch from old-fashioned folklore-type monsters to things like gore-drenched serial killers and such. Upped the ante in terms of unsavoriness.
Plus, it just isn’t what it once was. As recently as 10-15 years ago, we’d have well over a hundred kids trick-or-treating at our door. All races, but all clearly American. Now, it’s like 80% foreign/illegal kids, who tend to be older and don’t even ‘dress up.’ They don’t say anything, but simply thrust out plastic Wal-Mart bags in my face. No thank-you’s, no nothing. Usually just a smirk or sneer. That’s why I stopped handing out candy a couple of years ago. Another example of how such simple pleasantries of life in America have turned to crap.
Halloween was FREEDOM.
Christmas was sitting around all day in your good clothes waiting for the next day when you could try out the new BB gun.
I wonder if putting up a sign saying “Neighborhood kids only!” would get you thrown in jail.
I hate it.
Didn’t celebrate Halloween for religious reasons as a kid. I still sympathize with those reasons now that I have a kid but I’ve got practical reasons too: the rest of the year I emphasize that she’s not to take food from (or talk with) strangers,. I’m trying to teach her not to ask for handouts and certainly that she’s not entitled to anything from anyone. And I find the emphasis on death, horror, and the macabre to be disturbing.
Plus there’s the issue of little girl costumes being inappropriate but we would just dress her in her astronaut suit or make out own, if we participated.
I do wish there were better ways to opt out of the trick or treat thing. Guess we’ll go out for dinner that night.
It’s Reformation Day to us. Fear of anything but God is idolatry!