When I was growing up we never had any issue with halloween, If you didn't want to participate you didn't have to, now they are trying to ban holloween parades at schools, You people are making it very hard to love you ;-)
2006-10-18 16:46:04 · 27 answers · asked by lg304621942 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Halloween
Sudden? In our town Halloween carnivals were banned a long time ago, and replaced with "Fall Festivals." We still have Halloween, but not at the schools or churches. It's been that way for at least the last 15 years.
2006-10-18 16:48:11 · answer #1 · answered by Bad Kitty! 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
While it is not sudden, yes I agree people are taking it too far. I am a practicing Christian and I see nothing wrong with Halloween, you dress-up you get candy. But it is the world today. At work, I was told last year not to say Merry Christmas because the unbelievers might be offended. Maybe we could work out a deal, us Christians will leave Halloween alone as long as we can continue to say Merry Christmas!!
2006-10-19 02:13:58 · answer #2 · answered by cflmn71 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
In my opinion, for the same reason some don't like the image of
"Santa Claus" or the "Easter Bunny" or the "Tooth Fairy".......They need to GET A GRIP..because anybody with an actual thinking brain takes any of this stuff LITTERALLY......it is mostly all about folklore and the stuff that made being a kid so much fun......I suppose the people who oppose these things really have very, very tiny and uneventful lives to spend so much time thinking about this stuff to begin with......they also probably don't have any fun watching scary movies or "Miracle on 34th. Street".
Are these the same dummies that oppose prayer in schools....
This great country was not built by Naysayers and Scaredy Cats BUT by great and forward thinking people , who did not waste their time of this stuff......I hope none of these type ever get into
ofice, or we will be worse off than we are now!!!!!
2006-10-19 01:32:21 · answer #3 · answered by Stephanie R 1 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Well, it sucks that they are freaking out about it, but shouldn't you be asking the same question about why the people against Christianity are trying to ban Christian prayer, Bibles, and Christian religious talk from school? After all, in schools they are doing this, they are also encouraging Islaamic prayers over the intercom. It hasn't happened yet, but that's not the point.
Halloween is a celebration of the dead. They don't want their children to subjected to the peer pressure involved when other students watch them not participate. It's kind of extreme, and they should be teaching their kids to resist peer pressure, but the ones protesting don't seem to be that smart. But neither do the people protesting Christianity as a whole. It's all one big double standard FART of a situation.
2006-10-18 23:51:08 · answer #4 · answered by Rockstar 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
I've said this several times, but I think some Christians have issues with Halloween because of its Pagan origins. However, what I find highly ironic is the fact that BOTH Christmas and Easter were also Pagan in origin. Christmas wasn't celebrated in this country until the 1850s. It was outlawed and pretty much ignored in England while Cromwell et al were in charge. It wasn't until Charles Dickens published a Christmas Carol that the big deal celebration we have now got started.
2006-10-18 23:55:09 · answer #5 · answered by Purdey EP 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
I am appalled at all the answers "Christians" gave. Almost every one immediatly became a hypocrite in the same sentance. To call yourself a christian, and then threaten the user, or tell him how pissed you are. You don't know God. I am sad for you. God is love. You know nothing of forgivness and understanding.
" I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians, they are so unlike your Christ" - Gandhi
....as for your question, I asume by the way you asked your question that you do not like Christians, then I can asume that you have never met a real christian, and you probably are against prayer in schools. Pagans and athiests asked for prayer to be removed from schools because they did not want their children taught Christianity...in the same way, Christians want the Pagan celebration of All Hallows Eve removed, because they do not want their children taught pagan rituals. I think that is a fair trade.
2006-10-19 16:04:21 · answer #6 · answered by Starr 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My schools have ALWAYS taken issue with Halloween! (At least, they did until high school.) We could dress up at some of them, but we could never be anything scary. Others completely ignored it, or had "fall parties" that were completely unrelated to Halloween. My mom is a middle school teacher, and they have to pretend that NO holidays (except for government founded ones, like Columbus Day) exist.
The irony is that Halloween started as a Christian (predominantly Catholic) tradition. All Souls Day, the day before All Saints Day. My Catholic school taught us about what it really means, but to be frank, I can't really remember--it's been so long since I've been there! But, there is nothing sinful about the holiday unless it is used as an excuse to vandalize or sacrifice people's pets... Silly people trying to ban it!
2006-10-18 23:50:09 · answer #7 · answered by Esma 6 · 3⤊ 3⤋
I don't think you are going to get a lot of responses to this one...they are all probably at Bible study. I myself am a recovering Catholic, so of course I have no issue with Halloween. I actually see Halloween as a very good holiday--- one that encourages people to be creative, work together (with kids on costumes, etc.), and be active outdoors! The only issues that I have with Halloween today are the cheap costumes of every Disney character under the sun, the scary, gory costumes, and the parents who drive their kids into my neighborhood for more and more and more candy! Walk, darn it! Not to mention the adults who trick or treat, the teens without costumes, and the eventual eggers and tp freaks who surface just as you run out of your $50 supply of candy. I wish people could just see Halloween as a time to get outside in the crisp air with their kids and laugh. Or hide under a pile of leaves in a Frankenstein costume and scare old and young mercilessly like my dad did while mom passed out candy. It is not he with the most candy who wins, it is the person who enjoys the entire process of Halloween!
2006-10-19 00:15:06 · answer #8 · answered by littlemisssmartyknickers 1 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I think part of it is a backlash from bans of Christmas and Easter plays/parties. Everybody just needs to relax and let kids be kids. I love God and will still have my kid's Halloween party and go trick-or-treating.
2006-10-19 00:03:07 · answer #9 · answered by Math geek 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
As a christian I read my bible in the morning and evening and sometimes throughout the day. Halloween is a
Pagan Holliday. I use to participate in Halloween parades trick-or-treating events. And I let my grandchildren go too. They love to dress up like Jason or whoever. I know
that when they get older, as I did, and study their bible (which they do now) they'll know what's going on.
For all of you Ghoulies out their!!
YOU NEED JESUS!!!!!
2006-10-18 23:54:22 · answer #10 · answered by Catswoman1 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋