It also has a broader meaning: your body is not your own. It also strikes at the question of abortion and the "right to choose." (I personally see abortion as a summary execution of the innocent.)
Paradoxically, All Hallows' Eve was also a night when young people performed magical rituals to determine their future marriage partners. The youth of the villages carried on with much merry-making and sensual revelry,... (from the original article)
I Corinthians 6:19
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And for those who celebrate, is God saying a harmless holiday where children emulate heroes okay,...
If you are a Christian, you are supposed to emulate Jesus and have no other gods before you? For those who do celebrate, who is really the celebrant, God or Mammon?
Boy, if that was true, then Christianity would be more narrow minded and strict than the Wahabbie version of Shiite Islam.
Somehow I don't see Jesus Christ getting upset about a holiday where little kids delight in dressing up, and where older folks have fun pretending not to know the kid and pretend being scared, and then giving the kid candy. I have the feeling he'd laugh and approve, just like he approved of a good party and celebrating at a boisterous wedding.
Now, if all Christians decide to be "pure" and withdraw from the the positive aspects of Haloween, you WILL have a problem: it will descend to what we used to see in Detroit on "devil's eve": Fires, vandalism, and torturing animals.
So have your kids party dressed like heroes. Admiring a person who serves Christ by risking his life as a fireman or astronaut for a good cause is not idolotry, any more than having a picture of your mom on the mantle is idolotry. Get real.