2006-09-23 09:23:29 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Well, most of the Christians I know celebrate it as a secular holiday.
Children dress up in costumes and go to to door in their neighborhoods asking for candy. We call it "Trick or Treat" or "Beggar's Night" where I live.
Adults go to parties. They also dress up. Mostly it's fun, dressing up in costumes.
It's just a chance to dress up, eat junk food and have a little fun.
2006-09-23 09:28:47 · answer #1 · answered by Malika 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Technically, true Christians should'nt celebrate Halloween. The Bible never mentions Halloween, being that it did'nt exist in those days, however by adopting practices and beliefs of other cultures and religions, one can stray from the Christian path. This would also include, Christmas, Easter, New Years, and other non-Biblical practices.
Halloween has evolved from the Celtics celebrating a day of the dead. Later, Pilgrims brought their own version of this practice to America. The practice was mainly to put food out on the doorstep to appease the spirits. If no food was put out, the spirits might play a nasty prank on the household (trick or treat?) Also should one have to go out on that night, one would have to disguise themself in order so that the spirits do not recognize them (costume). A Turnip was used with a candle inside to guide the spirits to the food on the doorstep. Being that Turnips where in short supply, the Pumpkin was readily adapted for this task, with better results.
In time, this became more of a day for festivities, with Monsters, Witches, Devils, and other creatures brought in for decorations and stuff. For the most part, people have a real good time...me included. But when you really think about it, Halloween seems more like glorifying the wicked.
2006-09-23 16:54:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes and no. Halloween was originally All Hallows Day, when people visited the graves of family ancestors (and still do - where I live in Lithuania it's a very big thing to light candles, pray etc. Seems to go on for about a week). Presumably after the protestant reformation in England stripped away a lot of this sort of ceremony, the celebration we know was introduced as a rubbishing of catholic culture. And then in the US it was taken a stage further with pumpkins, trick or treat and the like which has then been sent back to us in the UK.
2006-09-24 18:56:11 · answer #3 · answered by whyteay 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, it is actually mostly secular now, so most Christians would be ok celebrating it...
Also, Halloween was originally a Christian holiday; it's All Hallow's Eve and celebrated as the Eve of All Saints Day, a day to celebrate, well, all the Saints.
2006-09-23 16:34:07 · answer #4 · answered by Shannon B 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Halloween is celebrated before Christmas
October 31st - Halloween
December 25th - Christmas Day
2006-09-23 16:31:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nowadays Halloween has been comercialized and is now just a day to dress up in disguise and get candy.
When I was a child, we were a very churchgoing family. We were not allowed to celebrate Halloween. Because of the church telling us it was an evil holiday. What does evil have to do with our dead loved ones?
Halloween is a day to celebrate the lives of our loved ones who have passed away. We honor them and light candles for them to honor their memories. (to me anyways)
It is not some crazy cult thing...
2006-09-23 16:55:46 · answer #6 · answered by LadyMagick 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not really. There is the day before that we celebrate called "All Hallow's Eve" This is a celebration in honor of the saints that have gone before us.
Because of the children, there are parties for them where they can dress up in any thing that doesn't depict dead people,witches, ghosts,dracula or the like. Plus we do take the children out in their costumes to trick or treat.
2006-09-23 16:39:20 · answer #7 · answered by December Princess 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am surprised that Christmas (Mithras) is celebrated by True Christians, bearing in mind that Yashua Bar Joseph is said to have been born around the 22nd March, not December 24/25...
Christmas is FORGIVING, not for giving (2 different meanings) - remember the true meaning of Christmas, as giving expensive presents doesn't co-inside with the teachings of Yashua/Jesus...
2006-09-24 06:54:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Does anybody really "celebrate" Halloween??
2006-09-23 16:36:50 · answer #9 · answered by red_munky06 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Christians celebrate All Saints eve which is All Hallows Eve.....Halloween as it is , is a pagan ritual
2006-09-23 17:56:26 · answer #10 · answered by ? 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋