One Mormon woman told me the Mormon church had a list of media titles their leaders found unacceptable entertainment for Mormons. Does this make sense to you that they would also celebrate Halloween if this list supposedly exists?
2006-10-16 09:17:42 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm mormon and I celebrate Halloween. It's fine.
2006-10-17 09:58:16 · answer #1 · answered by E Lynn 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Do Mormons Celebrate Halloween
2016-09-30 06:07:34 · answer #2 · answered by youngman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Do Mormons celebrate Halloween?
One Mormon woman told me the Mormon church had a list of media titles their leaders found unacceptable entertainment for Mormons. Does this make sense to you that they would also celebrate Halloween if this list supposedly exists?
2015-08-10 06:28:19 · answer #3 · answered by Lonnie 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've been LDS for 14 years and have never heard of this list. However, we have been counseled to not watch rated R movies. Maybe that's what she was talking about. .. but that would be a really long list.
I guess we sort of celebrate Halloween. We do have a festival in which kids dress up in costums - just not with masks, although they can paint their faces. There are games with prizes and food, then at the end there's a Trunk or Treat where the parents park their cars in the church parking lot and had out candy to all the kids from the trunk of their cars. I had never heard of such a think until I converted, however, in explaining this to some of my other Christian friends they said their church has done this type of thing for years and called it a Fall Festival.
2006-10-16 09:25:06 · answer #4 · answered by Tonya in TX - Duck 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Halloween this year is Wednesday, not Sunday. It's always Oct. 31st. Unless you're here in Nevada. We celebrate Nevada Day which is the last Friday in October. Like others have said the church doesn't have anything against dressing up or going trick-or-treating. Often wards will have activities like dinners, dances, or trunk-or-treats to offer safe environments. They do say at these activities people shouldn't wear masks or dress up as the other gender.
2016-03-17 03:10:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've never heard of the list, and I'm an active mormon. Oh, and Halloween is fine. We celebrate with the best and rest of them!
2006-10-18 02:42:40 · answer #6 · answered by Sherpa 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
We allow our children to celebrate trick or treat events while wearing appropriate costumes. As far as I know, we shun wearing grotesque masks of any form that allude to an image of Satanism.
It is important that our children can be children for a while and enjoy those holidays as Easter egg hunts too.
The media has all forms of immorality and pornography depicted and those channels we avoid where possible. It isn't easy being in the world and not of it; we must constantly be on guard.
p.s. I appreciate the correct spelling of Mormon as you have done. So many butcher the name.
2006-10-16 09:24:04 · answer #7 · answered by Guitarpicker 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋
Mormons are celebrating a holiday from false religion. False religion is from satan
2014-10-13 15:19:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Mormon Latter-day Saints are counseled to carefully monitor their Halloween activities to ensure that their practices and behaviors do not offend the Mormon holy spirit.
In Mormonism, their holy spirit is not the Spirit of God. The Mormon holy spirit was first the mind of the Mormon father and the Mormon son, but is now a man who never obtained godhood - a spirit who never obtained a body.
Halloween is not a religious holiday of the Mormon Church. "The Church has no specific instructions, either prohibitions or endorsements, regarding secular activities (e.g., costume parties) that often occur on this occasion. Instead, members of the Church are counseled to follow the whisperings of the Holy Spirit as to their proper course of action. The Holy Spirit can tell us whether something is pleasing unto the Lord."
http://www.lightplanet.com/mormons/daily/holidays/Halloween_Advice.htm
Mormons do not understand or appreciate anything Christian. Mormonism is a pagan and occultic religion which focuses on contact with the dead. Their anti-Christian doctrines are based on revelations from "the dead", their ancestor worship has baptisms for the dead, they marry dead people, etc.
2006-10-16 17:59:46 · answer #9 · answered by kirstycristy 3 · 0⤊ 5⤋
I am not sure what list you are referring to...
Yes, our kids go out and Trick or Treat, we decorate with fun halloween stuff...we are counseled not to do things that would not invite the spirit to be around us so if there is anything that has to do with halloween like that, then we would not do it.
But I dress up every year, have trick or treating kids at my door and decorate.
You seem to be believing everything you hear or misunderstanding what you hear....
2006-10-16 09:51:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋