Halloween actually has its beginnings in the Catholic faith. To remember the lives of their departed saints, people were encouraged to dress up like them on religious holidays. Thus, costuming was born.
Uhhh... I ‘ll respond after finishing off this Reeses Peanut Butter Cup.
I know, I’ll make a list! Does anyone need 18 reasons not to celebrate Halloween? I only need one. The only reason to make a list is because for some reason stupid people read “list “ articles.
He has not given us a spirit if fear, nor irrationality.
There are a lot of horrible things going on in our reprobate society and this article touches on some.
Halloween did not cause that.
The nastier aspects of how Halloween is celebrated now came from the psychopathic society.
Stopped reading after the first reason. Even people in the early 20th century celebrated Halloween. This was back when people generally had morals. Halloween is just a fun little holiday like St. Patrick’s day.
Does the celebration of Halloween bring honor and glory to God?
You are thankfully safe for another year.
My kids dressed as a dairy queen and as Peter Pan. We visited with neighbors and exchanged candy. Insofar as anything was scary, a couple carved pumpkins and my “Punisher” t-shirt, methinks kids should have a time to explore the natural emotion of fear in a safe context.
As for pagan connections, there are just 365 days a year, which I’m sure 10,000 years of 40,000,000,000 people have managed to pack some objectionable content into each day of. It’s what we do with today that counts; if you don’t want to participate, fine... others can make a good time of it regardless of what strangers choose to.
Yak. I thought it was only Michael Medved who crapped his pants over Halloween.
This is a serious issue. Where is the authority to change pagan holidays or rituals into Christian ones?
Same goes for what if they find new books in the Bible like: “The Gospel of Peter”.
But: “Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven. Whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”
465 reasons why I don’t care
I celebrate Oct. 31st every year with great joy. Reformation day is a gift to the Church and the modern world. A Mighty Fortress is our God.
The other insignificant happenings on that day I mostly ignore.....
I agree. It’s no accident that “Halloween” has a repeated vowel at the end. You know what else has a repeated vowel? That’s right, “Pool”. If we don’t nip this in the bud, we’ll have our kids hanging out in pool halls.
Yeppers, trouble right here it River City, it is.
[On all Satanic holy days, there are children that get ritually abused]
There were baby sacrifices going on during Halloween in our region in the 1980s. Mothers would not notify the hospitals they were pregnant, so the births were not registered. The whole thing was kept hush, hush. Horrible.
(The legal arm of baby sacrifices are still being performed through Planned Parenthood.)
[[#1 I don’t want anyone in my family to observe a holiday that celebrates death, witchcraft and the occult. This year, millions of Americans will participate in activities that could potentially open up a door for demonic activity.]]
Which is his main reason for not liking the holiday-
But what did the bible have to say about something similar?
The Jews wouldn’t eat meat off of temple alters after meat was sacrificed to other gods
This meat was offered at a greatly reduced price, and many gentiles (or maybe it was other Jews) felt it was fine to buy the cheap meat and save some money
The Jews complained loudly- Paul stepped In and told them not to condemn them for buying the meat and basically told them that the meat ‘wasn’t contaminated with Satanism’ simply because it was offered on an alter to other gods (This was kind of the crux of what he was telling them)
Bottom line is that Christians are NOT dressing up in costumes hoping that Satan or a demon will possess them, nor are they committing their life to Satan simply by going door to door asking for candy. They dress up in costumes because it’s fun and because it’s one night out of the year when they get to have loads of candy