Do you allow your children to go trick-or-treating? Why or why not?
2006-10-30 18:36:43 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes I do. We also pass out Christian tracts to trick or treaters.
Though, Halloween is indeed a holiday based on the Pagan new year celebration of Samhain, it is not the "Satanic" festival it's been made out to be by the Christian church. I believe everyday is a gift from God and that my children have every right to participate in festivities that, now, have nothing to do even with the originally intended celebration.
Blessed Be
2006-10-30 19:02:03 · answer #1 · answered by Celestian Vega 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, because it is a demonic celebration and children of Christians have no place being out with all the scary and weird things that people are doing. If it's just trick or treat, it's still scary for kids and is not good for them. Why observe a satanic holiday? How do you explain this to kids later when you're trying to tell them to live for Christ?
2006-10-30 18:46:46 · answer #2 · answered by HomeBody 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I did when I was young, until my mother became a Jehovah's Witness. I don't remember how I thought about the matter. AT the time, in Anaheim (CA), there was two nights for it. Kids from certain schools went out on the 30th, while others went out the 31st. I don't remember why, though I think it had to do with the distribution of police to watch out for criminal activities. Naturally, the kids went out both nights. Why go out, because it was traditional to do. But, after my mother became a JW, she learned the history of it and we stopped.
Of interest, that was also the last year we celebrated Christmas. My stepfather had some elaborate Christmas displays, the biggest he had ever done. He was a Lutheran, a Korean War Vet, and highly opposed to what my mother was doing. But, he began studying that next year, and got baptized.
He was an elder or anything such in the congregation, but he lived his life in accordance with the Bible. He's now in his 80s. In 2005, I wrote the Father's Day submission for the Dear Abby column. It was dedicated to him.
2006-10-30 19:08:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I allow my children to trick-or-treat. Halloween is not an evil holiday. Actually it has a Christian background. Halloween comes from All Hallow's Eve...the eve of All Saint's Day. This is the day that the Catholic Church sets aside to honor all the saints that have gone before us. Because we are honoring the dead, people have put a morbid kind of spin on it...ghosts and ghouls. If you explain to your children that Halloween is all in good fun and don't get all wrapped up in the scary stuff I see no harm in it.
2006-10-30 18:44:12 · answer #4 · answered by Stanbo 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I don't have children, but if I did, ABSOLUTELY. And if I didn't, it wouldn't be for moral reasons, it'd be for safety reasons (i.e., rape by jack-o'-lantern guy). I mean, seriously, what is actually morally wrong, fundamentally, with Halloween? Nothing, unless you're a shriveled-up soccer mom with nothing better to do than donate your time to church "harvest festivals" and school holiday parties. Eugh.
But really, I am SO SICK of these overprotective Christian housewives making the rest of us followers look stupid. There's nothing wrong with Halloween, and Harry Potter is not the Devil. Get a job. (Just kidding.)
2006-10-30 18:58:26 · answer #5 · answered by Leroy Johnson 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, we have something for them at church. A big harvest festival where the children get to dress up as their favorite bible character. We have apple bobbing, pin the tail on the donkey, and alot of other games. Then we have hotdogs, hamburgers, chips,and cola. Alot of mothers will bring cupcakes, cakes, candy and such. The children love it.
2006-10-30 18:43:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, because my son is 2 and I will allow him to make that decision when he starts to ask questions when he is a little older.
Shalom
2006-10-30 19:02:34 · answer #7 · answered by Pashur 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My son is free too do as he pleases but he doesn't care about trick or treating.
2006-10-30 18:39:43 · answer #8 · answered by Sean 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Halloween angers me for Satanics are praying freely against us thinking it is all good. They consider this month theirs and by force my God will take it back so that what little they are given would be taken from them. Satanics read this, you chose his side, so you chose to be my enemy, this is war.
2006-10-30 18:46:33 · answer #9 · answered by Eloy B 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
noo nooo, cuz satans out there waiting 2 kidnap them and fill them full of goodies, and like every good god-fearing cristian knows, goodies r bad the devil wants 2 make you bob 4 apples you deep throated temptress
i hope u know i was just kiddin, i dont really see the big deal
2006-10-30 18:41:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋