It’s precisely that sort of super-heated rhetoric people are reacting against. If you want to ask, “are you promoting Godliness or wickedness on Halloween,” people may look at their daughter dressed as Cinderella differently than their daughter dressed as a Playboy bunny or as a “sexy devil” and come up with different answers. Or they may realize, “hmm. Gunther’s leaving the house with 12 dozen eggs and a 24-pack of toilet paper. Maybe destructive pranks aren’t Christian.”
But you and Patriot777 don’t. No, Patriot777 screeds about worshiping Satan, which is absurd, and makes Christians look like a bunch of lunatics. And then when people push back, along YOU come in and in YOUR words, you start referencing outrageous profanities. And that reinforces the dichotomy that if you don’t want to revel in evil, you must be a joyless scold. And THAT’S what people react against, because THAT’S why so many people around them choose to revel in evil.
No, what’s really happening is what happened throughout the Bible. People in general, including many who CLAIM to love God and to worship and serve Him actually hate Him and don’t want Him to rule over them. Just as it happened throughout the Bible, they run after other gods, including Baal, and kill the prophets who tell them God’s will. These people, not properly respecting God, twist and distort His Word, taking it lightly because they just don’t respect God. What they want in this life is their god. The Lord isn’t a product. The Gospel isn’t a product. If people won’t respond to the Gospel as the Lord wills for Christians to present it to them, then where they are is beyond the Gospel at that time and the Gospel shouldn’t be destroyed through compromise in order to coddle them and cater to them.