[NYer]

I know a young Baptist whose mother asked the doctor to deliver her son on October 30 to avoid birth on Halloween, her due date.

[KoRn]

They shouldn’t desecrate my favorite holiday in such a matter....

[Jacquerie]

I’ve never known Catholics to use the pejorative term, “Papist.”

[workerbee]

Well, this oughta be a fun thread.

[Marysecretary]

Sounds like a great idea to me. I hate Halloween, consider it a time for witches and satanists to celebrate their craft. We used to have harvest parties without the witches, ghosts and goblins.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I’ve got a better idea. Instead of celebrating Halloween, celebrate November 5th, Guy Fawkes Day.

[Lee N. Field]

PCANews at the Christian Broadcasting Network website has come up with a way to overcome the satanic/occult aspects of Halloween - a Reformation Day party! They explain it:

Ummm. That's every Oct. 31. Nothing special about this year.

And, would that they would remark on it. I suspect many American evangelicals don't have a clue of the significance of the day.

I've been working on my scraggly beard since the beginning of summer. Now to find a black beret. This is the look I'm aiming at:

[marron]

Why not have a celebration at church where all get dressed up as characters from the Reformation (I've dressed up as John Calvin, Martin Luther, a peasant, and even John Tetzel

Oh, sure. I'll bet that goes over big with the kids.

Seriously, I wouldn't get too wound up about it, I've personally never heard of such a thing. Not that I'm the go-to guy on protestant lore or anything...

But what I observe is that churches are commonly holding halloween parties for the kids for two reasons, one being for reasons of safety and the other to replace the satanic aspects. Kids are encouraged to wear costumes, but anything satanic is obviously not welcome. Food, fun, and you open and close with a prayer.

[Dr. Thorne]

Many Evangelical churches are having “Hallelujah” parties to give the kids an alternative to the ugly and scary occultic images with which so many infantile adults now decorate their homes.

[AnAmericanMother]

One year, my daughter dressed as St. Lucy, with her eyes on a plate.

Occasionally somebody answered the door who knew who she was!

[Conservative4Ever]

Well let's see....
carve pumplin, check
get out witch costume, check
new batteries in silly blinking pumpkin headband, check
stock up on really, really good candy, check
let the fun begin.

Halloween is not satanic, people. Get a grip.

[Desdemona]

So, I can go to such a party as Lady Montague? Despite it all in England she was a stalwart Catholic, but still a figure of the revolt.

[BlueStateBlues]

I’ll put on a Keith Obermann costume and scare the hell out of everybody.

Halloween is a fun time in my family, we always treat the youngsters coming to the door with good treats, decorate the lawn and trees with ghosts and goblins and large monster balloons. So, in our household, let the good times and the heads roll.

[redgolum]

Back home, my church usually had Reformation Sunday and at times a small service on Oct. 31.

But it was a bigger thing in Lutheran synods. Often, all Saints Sunday was either celebrated at the same time, or on November 1.

[Melian]

Oh brother.

[left that other site]

Of Course, the origin of Halloween was that it was the “eve of All Hallows” or the night before All Saints Day, a day on which ALL the departed saints (small “s”, meaning everyone who had died in Christ)was honored! sO HA HA HA! The joke is on the witches and goblins! Halloween is a CHRISTIAN Holiday!

Personally, I enjoy the nonsense. It is the one day of the year everyone laughs at the one thing everybody on the planet is AFRAID of...death.

I love the Lord, By the way. Peace and love to ALL my brothers and sisters out there!

[reaganaut]

This is ridiculous, and I am an evangelical protestant. Our church has a “trunk or treat” where kids go trick or treating from one car to another.

When I was a kid at Catholic school, our school Halloween festival was the big thing in town.

I love Halloween. Not for the modern stuff, but for the history of it. October 31 was the eve of All Saints, when the veil between this world and the next was thin. Children would go house to house and get “soul cakes” in exchange for praying for the dead. Halloween has a very rich history and my only gripe with it is the fact that we have lost the history. I would love to hand out “soul cakes” instead of candy.

[CharlesWayneCT]

We celebrate Reformation Sunday on the week after Halloween.

But we don’t burn anything.

[GCC Catholic]

Many students have been celebrating "Reformation Day" at my Presbyterian-affiliated alma mater for years. Many of the Protestant churches in the town have celebrated it as well. There was never any burning of anything; it was mostly a day that those students and several professors used to celebrate their heritage as Protestants. In my years there, it was very unoffensive.

Most of the Catholic students have either ignored it or laughed it off... every once in a while some would wear tame Halloween costumes just because they could.

[ViLaLuz]

Cool idea! I also like the Fall festival themes, too.