2006-10-21 07:40:26 · 41 answers · asked by Atheist Eye Candy 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
HAHA FALSMAN HAHAAAA LOL!! thx for the laugh. Oh My! LOL
2006-10-21 07:45:44 · update #1
yes i am christian and i was a priest with a little boy hanging from the front of my belt.
2006-10-21 07:42:10 · answer #1 · answered by falsman14 2 · 5⤊ 8⤋
Well, technically, no one celebrates Halloween. Halloween was supposed to be the one night of the year the ghosts of the dead could rise and live. No one still thinks this happens, so it is much like atheists exchanging gifts at Christmas. If a Christian dresses up and carves pumpkins on the last day of October, it has nothing to do with their faith. However, Catholics have All Saints Day on November 1, and the Mexicans celebrate their dead on the Days of the Dead on November 1 and 2, but they do not believe they rise and live.
2006-10-21 07:51:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I was younger, my Southern Baptist church used to have haunted houses in the church, complete with dead people in coffins and fake body parts. They don't do that anymore...Halloween is now celebrated as the Fall Festival. So, the truly uptight evangelical Christians don't celebrate it so much anymore, but most mainstream, non-sticks-stuck-up-our-asses Christians do.
2006-10-21 07:44:14 · answer #3 · answered by Library Guy 76 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I cannot speak for all of them but my children see it as a simple day of dress up with the added benefit ofcandy thrown in. I have never sat down and explained the druids celebration of the dead of all hallow's eve and whatever. I am sure by the time they are old enough to understand that they will be too old for trick or treat anyway.
2006-10-21 07:49:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hi. They do in a fun way. But Halloween started out as a Christian festival because at midnight on the night before Halloween it is ALL SOULS EVE and next day it is ALL SAINTS DAY.
Rose
2006-10-21 07:47:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
True Christians do not celebrate Halloween or any other observance that has its roots in paganism. Don't be lured with how much "fun" Halloween is.
2006-10-21 08:28:01 · answer #6 · answered by LineDancer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I take my child to church on Halloween and get candy from there. We also go to the fire station and a few close friends homes, that's it. I let him dress up, but only in costumes that do not depict anything demonic, like witches, dracula, vampires etc. etc. He is going to be a policeman this year.
2006-10-21 07:51:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Once you know better, you do better. I celebrated, as most children in this American culture, Halloween until my late teens. I do not anymore nor will my son....He can not miss what he never had. We pay as much attention to Halloween as we do President's Day. It's nothing to us.
2006-10-21 07:45:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The origins are from an old Christian tradition. Todays' "celebration" is quite different in meaning, even though they have kept some things such as beggars night (modified of course).
2006-10-21 07:45:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It depends on the Christian. Fundamentalists don't celebrate it. Other Christians don't see it as a matter of celebrating but just observing a fun tradition of trick-or-treating or costume parties.
2006-10-21 07:42:52 · answer #10 · answered by ThatLady 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Greeting brother in Christ. I am Motombo from church of fish and bread.
Motombo no like halloween. The kids dress up like Darth Vader and scare Motombo and ask for candy. Candy bad for teeth.
Peace and blessing from Motombo
2006-10-21 07:42:35 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋