Well, that's settled.
If you don't kill every Treat or Treater running past your house you ain't a good Christian and you ain't going do heaven.
Wonder if the writer ever dances?
Wonder if the writer ever took a nip or two.
Seriously - where my soul goes after I die depends a lot more on other other “stuff” than if I Trick or Treated as a kid or give out candy to those who do today.
Yes, and that one phrase caused more evil than it ever prevented. Thousands of people, men and women, but mostly women, died in England and on the American continent(still part of Britain at the time), although many more died in Europe than ever did on American shores for being witches.
People who wanted someone's land, or simply didn't like that person, would turn them in for being witches, a charge that was almost impossible to disprove, and the victim had to disprove it, there was no "innocent until proved guilty" when it came to witches.
So call me a pagan if you want, but anyone who quotes that particular phrase out of the bible needs to have their head examined and the rocks removed from it.
I never understood the anti-alcohol stance among some Christians. Didn't Jesus turn water into wine for a wedding celebration? Why would he do that if alcohol is bad?