When I was a child in the 70's. everyone celebrated Halloween, at school, church, everyone. Now it seems like half the people I talk to are against it. Why has it become so evil all of a sudden? It is an old holiday from ancient days and it wasn't considered evil in my childhood. People do bad things everyday and not just on Halloween so why do they blame it? I see less pranks being done in my area than when I was a kid when window soaping and smashing stuff on peoples porches was common. What is the harm in dressing the kids up and taking them trick or treating in their neighborhood and the malls?
2006-09-19 07:57:19 · 19 answers · asked by reallyfedup 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
Because they are uneducated about it. If they did their homework they would find it isn't evil at all.
Halloween is my favorite holiday..we have a HUGE masquerade party every year and start decorating for it in September.
There is NOTHING wrong with dressing up the kids and having fun...
2006-09-20 02:28:56 · answer #1 · answered by thegirlsnextdoor2005 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Halloween was started with the Druids, who were priests long ago. The people in their village were afraid that on this certain night, evil spirits would come and steal their souls, so the people would dress up as something else to confuse the spirits.
NOT everyone is against trick-or-treating. My church has a carnival with games and candy and stuff. One church I went to set up a haunted hell house, then presented the gospel at the end.
Don't be so narrow in your view of society.
Some people do see halloween as "the devil's birthday," but that's not even historically accurate. Do your own research. Enjoy the holiday and be safe, and don't criticize people for their religious convictions.
2006-09-19 08:13:25 · answer #2 · answered by dogpreacher@sbcglobal.net 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tricky one this...
By birth i am British (and Halloween is very popular over here, i digress...will return to this in a moment) but by marriage a Virginian. I may sound a bit Schizo... please humor me as its going to be yet another two part awns.!
1. I don't think its hated in America by everyone... the Kids still love it after all! I do think that the poorer families out there dread it as yet another demand on scant funds, that the common folk hate the fact that it is rammed down their throat by every shop on the high street (from Walmart to Dun-kin Donuts) and that they cant relax and just enjoy the holiday anymore. The Police, social services and family groups are not fond of it due to the deluge of children that end up hitting the street , some of them unsupervised,including the older ones who are more often then not just out to be belligerent with a couple of hundred rolls of toilet paper... That just leaves the nut jobs who think its a pagan ritual, and my only response to them is that it was the deliberate choice of the ancient church to take Samhein and choose it for the date of all saints & all souls day... and who for the most part today have no problem with it.
2. In the Uk we love this holiday (even tho we dont go quite so overboard!) and even in the most christien of little communities it is welcomed. It is perhaps one of those all to few times, apart from christmass, where children can be children and the whole community shares the joy of it.... we dont have the commercial overkill either... which helps.
Ps... i am going to post a question on kids, houses and rolls of toilet paper... this one i have not the slightest Clue about! How on earth did you chaps think this one up?????
2006-09-19 08:20:03 · answer #3 · answered by Zarathustra 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most people have no problem whatsoever with Halloween. It's the religious fanatics and churches who think that it is the be all and end all of evil. And those same people have no concept at all of the true history of the holiday because the churches have invented a false history which their followers believe with no questions asked.
2006-09-19 17:08:41 · answer #4 · answered by Cinnamon 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
everyone?
boy i'm glad i am where i am.
i got blinky toys, jewellery, bubble guns! i'm going to have a huge display with fog and strobe lights... disco lights and candy, i'm going to be a alien and i'll bbq'n all kindsa things.. kid'll be knocking on the doors and jumping around playing pranks...
candy corn all over the place and tricksters...
music will be in the air.. do the MASH! do the monster MASH!
there'll be halloween movies and scarey stuff.
YAY!
:D
you're around too many freakazoids who push religion and don't get what it's really about (religions that is not halloween, yes they don't get what halloween is about either what a bunch of ignoramuses)
people who are against halloween are against their dead loved ones and happiness.
screw them, move.. or teach them a lesson.
have a halloween.
you might find some will come out of the wood work.
oh yes any churches that promote that halloween is evil well they're propagandists and are devil worshippers.
they just don't get what halloween is about.
that's the real evil.
and they're not christian!
makes me mad to see so much stupidity, no wonder we're always at war and there's hate and anger..
stupid folks.
:D
2006-09-19 08:08:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't know a soul that is against it. Everyone I know loves Halloween and I hardly see pranks anymore either. The only thing I can think of is that perhaps the spiritual leader that some of these people who hate Halloween go to is brainwashing them.
That amount of power scares the heck out of me!
2006-09-20 03:21:17 · answer #6 · answered by KathyS 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hallow's eve isn't celebrated everywhere else like this. The liturgical dinner party day is November 1st on the Roman Catholic Calendar, and the dinner party is celebrating all people who're no longer formally regarded with the aid of the church as saints. Hallow's Eve is like Mardi Gras in a approach in North u.s., yet in Europe, the custom grew to become into to obtain candy IN substitute for the promise to wish for the souls who've handed on earlier us. i do no longer understand approximately any pagan rituals different than perhaps Satanic ones, which additionally ensue on Christmas Eve.
2016-10-15 04:22:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you. Halloween in my town is greatly looked forward to. Unless of course it's falls on a Sunday then all of a sudden the religious fanatics come out to complain. No one did when I was a kid, and people shouldn't knock something fun for kids as they look forward to this all year. Heck! I'm 35 and still dress up to meet the kids at the door....lol.
2006-09-19 08:01:19 · answer #8 · answered by GirlinNB 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
i dont know hwo this came about but i am not and never will be against halloween or any other holiday (amercian or not). its one of the few days of the year tha i cna be myself. i see no harm in dressing up and having fun and getting soem treats in the process. in my area its always in the daytime. usually between 4-6pm. pumpkin smashing is still common in my area.
viva la halloween
2006-09-19 08:02:54 · answer #9 · answered by jamz 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Everyone is NOT against Halloween. Only ridiculous fundamentalist religious zealots are spouting Satan over this one. Funny, since the day is supposed to be a day or preparation for a holy day, All Saints Day. Christians have taken a serious turn for the idiotic lately, all in the name of notoriety. Shame on them!
AND to JOHNNY J...Please adjust your avatar to proper height..I do not want people to think I am YOU...not very nice!
2006-09-19 08:00:06 · answer #10 · answered by Curious 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋