do Jahovas Witnesses celebrate hallowe'en.??

Question

Sorry im thick. HA!

Answer 1

Jehovah's Witnesses do not participate in nationalistic or so-called "religious" holidays.

Halloween is uniquely offensive to many Christian faiths, not just Jehovah's Witnesses. Many devout Christians feel that glorifying the occult and Satanism is incompatible with their sincere Christian beliefs. A Jehovah's Witness or other devout Christian would generally not object to anyone else's observance and participation, but would object to anything that might imply that he is involved himself in Halloween celebrations.

Jehovah's Witnesses focus their attention elsewhere. In particular, they are focussed on the preaching work which *IS* a requirement for Christians:

(Luke 10:1-17) [Jesus] the Lord designated seventy others and sent them forth by twos in advance of him into every city and place to which he himself was going to come. 2 Then he began to say to them: “The harvest, indeed, is great, but the workers are few. Therefore beg the Master of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest.

Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/library/w/2005/1/1a/article_01.htm
http://watchtower.org/library/w/2000/12/15/article_01.htm

Answer 2

Hallowe'en is a pagan celebration. It therefore has no place in the calendar of any believer. To a Christian it is the eve of All Saints' Day (November 1st), which is where it gets its name. As JWs are not known for their observance of Saints' Days, it is not a day which they commemorate.

It's strange that all these pagans use the eve of a Christian feast to make merry without even changing its name! Long live the feast of All Hallows!

Answer 3

Of course not...

Halloween—Ancient Night of Terror

It is the last night of October. By the light of the moon, a small group of costumed figures move from house to house stating their demands with dire threats. Guarding some doorsteps are grimacing pumpkin heads glowing with burning candles—made from human fat. Other doors drip with human blood. It is the night of Samhain, Celtic lord of the dead.
Perhaps in no other “Christianized” celebration does Satan so blatantly honor himself and memorialize his war dead. The writer J. Garnier suggests that celebrations of suffering and death can be traced back to the ancient destruction of all of his human followers, as well as the hybrid sons of fallen angels, at the time of the Flood. Cultures the world over have festivals for the dead, “held by all on or about the very day on which, according to the Mosaic account, the Deluge took place, viz., the seventeenth day of the second month—the month nearly corresponding with our November.”—The Worship of the Dead, by J. Garnier.
The Druids were no exception. On October 31, Samhain was said to release the spirits of the dead to mingle with the living. Druids roamed the streets with lanterns, and on coming to a house, they demanded money as an offering for Satan.
Halloween is a major satanic ritual day. “It’s a religious holiday for the underworld, with satanists performing sacrifices and witches quietly celebrating with prayer circles or meals for the dead,” according to a USA Today article. It quoted Washington witch Bryan Jordan as saying, “[Christians] don’t realize it, but they’re celebrating our holiday with us. . . . We like it.”
Parents, do you want your children imitating these sinister rituals?

Answer 4

no b/c its a pagan holiday-
and if someone claims to be a christian ( any christian not just JW's) and their celebrating any holiday wit a pagan backround then they're hypocrites b/c the defintion of the word pagan is something a christian doesn't do or partake in any most holidays are pagan like halloween and christmas.......
so i respect Jw's for acknowledging that...

Answer 5

Yeah - they knock on doors trick-or-treating every day.