Posted on 10/28/2020 11:47:55 AM PDT by Carpe Cerevisi
Every October, Christians trash each other on social media over Halloween. Is it harmless costumes and candy? Participation in the occult, cavorting with demons? Co-opting a pagan holiday?
Christians believe demons are real. The Bible talks about them. Most Christians agree that you should stay away from them. Fallen angels lurking in your kid’s candy bag might freak out a Christian mom or dad. And the stranger-sabotaged candy scares of the 1980s still haunt some parents.
Halloween remains popular among American Christians. Yet this stalking sense of the demonic has some churches holding sanitized “harvest festival” events, away from the gruesome imagery in the streets, satisfying the family desire to participate without the risk.
Other Christians take the hardline tactic of pointing out historical links to the Celtic pagan Samhain festival, supposedly the “real” Halloween. Trick-or-treating is declared equivalent with Ouija boards and seances. The 5-year-old in her princess tutu and tiara overloading on sweets is basically equivalent to a necromancer.
What is rarely discussed in these unhallowed debates is what exactly Halloween is. The term gets used for everything from neopagan reconstructions to Catholic cemetery processions for All Hallows’ Eve, to costumed parades through the Main Streets of small-town America.
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It’s certainly not a harmless holiday . . . but then we are seeing demons forces before our very eyes at work everyday during this election season especially. The demonic spirits are in a frenzy . . . they know what is going to eventually happen to them . . .they took a look in the Book!
Excellent answer!
I say it’s up to each individual to decide. Let God judge!
Exactly. Kudos to you, sir. (Sure wish FR had a LIKE button...)
Allhallowtide, aka Hallowtide, Allsaintstide, or the Hallowmas season, is the Western Christian season encompassing the triduum of All Saints’ Eve (Halloween), All Saints’ Day (All Hallows’) and All Souls’ Day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allhallowtide
Basically, all three days, bound together, are a Christian holiday already. They just need to be seen of as such.
Embracing their religious mythical nature dispels any Satanic or evil influence.
To reject them without consideration is no different than rejecting Easter because of the Easter bunny; or rejecting Christmas because Santa is an anagram of Satan.
But if you embrace its religious mythical nature, you can spiritualize the lives of our forebears and the Saints.
No.
Nope.
The last thing anyone wants is God’s Judgement.
“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;”
Romans 3:23
What we seek is the Grace of God.
I Love Autumn and Halloween. Our Heavenly rules everything. And has a great sense of humor too!
Yeah, because in the 1950s and 60s all kids went trick or treat and had fun. People were smarted back then than they are today.
No
I’m in it but only for the Reese cups. If there are no Reese cups, Halloween is evil worthlessness.
From what I remember reading a long time ago, it was all about dressing up to scare the demons back to hell. I really don’t mind handing out candy and the kids dressing up for fun.
I love the new peanut butter lovers cups. They are close to the inside out ones I miss so much!
Nope.
Raised in a Christian home, attended and participated in church regularly, my siblings and I had fun trick or treating every year and never had a moment of confusion about if we were worshiping Satan or if we were just dressing up and getting some awesome candy from friendly neighbors. If Halloween fell on a Wednesday or Sunday, we knew we had to get out and get back before church. Shoot, we even had little fun parties at school, colored and cut out pumpkins, black cats, and witches, and no parents thought to complain to the school about it. We personally didn’t engage in any tricks and knew that it was a bad idea from the get-go, but sometimes a particularly grumpy neighbor would get up the next morning to find toilet paper decorating a tree and everyone at school would try to figure out the culprit and some adults would look away and snicker a bit.
We had Christmas trees and got excited about Santa coming but we understood that running through, around, over, and above all that was the celebration of the birth of the Savior.
My parents also had fun with us on Easter with the Easter Bunny delivering a pretty basket every Easter morning. We dyed and hid eggs, my sisters and I got new Easter dresses with white shoes, little gloves, and bonnets specifically for Easter Sunday. That was fun, but the intent of the day was to talk about and celebrate the Resurrection. For several years, I tried my best to use those little blue or pink malted Robin’s Egg candies as lipstick but my mom always caught me before we got to church.
Our children had fun trick or treating and also understood it was just a fun time to get candy, not that we were worshiping Satan or celebrating evil.
Some things are different now and I don’t know that it’s safe any longer for children to go out alone trick or treating. I’ll continue to watch scary movies, give out candy to little trick or treaters, and have fun. Whether my neighbor wants to do the same, or criticize me for what I do is up to them.
I’m long past caring anymore.
Peach
It might go wild and be until 11 this time since it is Saturday.
The only time you will hear anything even mildly profane is if someone accidentally gets one of the mugs of the "spicy" apple cider. The lady puts those red hot candies in it. Sniff before drinking!
We give out tracks as well as “testimints”, mints that have scripture on them.
We allowed our kids to dress up, but as ballerinas and super heroes, nothing in the horror realm.
I respect parents that bow out, but I’ve also seen very evangelical churches do “trunk or treat” in their parking lots.
The worry is that if you keep your kids completely out they’ll just see their family being different as a negative. But, modifying it, if they have fun the resentment is gone.
To begin with, Halloween is not a religious rite in favor of ghosts and skeletons, it is only a children’s entertainment, in fact neither ghosts nor personified witches and devils are really like that; I wonder ... do you really believe that the devil has horns and a pointed tail and is red?
Good God! War on holidays. That’s why I think conservatives act like liberals at times. Ridiculous!!!!!
Oh, for goodness sake.
No fun for anyone. We must all suffer until we die.
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