Halloween was the most wonderful holiday as a child. I’m so sad that kids today are being deprived of such fun - especially because of Christianity!
Tramping on the colorful leaves with pillowcases loaded down with candy as you came home through the dusk; amazing homemade costumes sewn or designed by mom; watching my brother create a beard by using burnt cork. My father coming home from work and insisting he see our costumes before we changed back into mufti.
This was not the 19th Century (Halloween had completely different rituals then) but happened all the way though the 1970s.
How Christians could turn on this holiday rather than enforce the old traditions and rituals, is beyond me. Well, that’s why I’m not a fundamentalist, I guess.