I was brought up in a religious household. We had NO choices of what we were to celebrate. And that meant NO halloween. I never went trick or treating... up until I was 18 I had no idea what Halloween was really about.
Now that I have kids, and I am not as religious as my parents were with my siblings and I, I allow them to Trick Or Treat but I don't take part in it. My husbands parents take them out and around neighborhoods but I don't and this is my last year celebrating halloween.
I am starting to believe it's not an important holiday, a waste of money spent on junk (that causes kids to have cavities). I mean, even if I were to give out healthy treats like pretzels, that doesnt mean they're not getting snickers and goobers else where.
Anyway, I give my children the choice because they deserve to make their own assumptions on Halloween and deserve to make the decision for themselves; one thing I always wanted- the decision.
Anyone else like me out there?
2006-10-31 08:56:56 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Parenting
It's too long to read but I don't celebrate Halloween anymore. I've practically grown out of it. I only celebrate religious holidays now, like Nov. 1 (all Saints day)! Or all souls day for that matter, to honor the past dead.
2006-10-31 09:01:07 · answer #1 · answered by Suzy Suzee Sue 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
We are a pagan family and for us it is an actual holiday. It is very important in our household. It marks the beginning of a new year and is a time to reflect and be thankful. It is also a time to honor those who have passed on before us. I think of it a lot like the Japanese celebration of oban. They put out food for their departed loved ones and believe they come to share in a meal. Many pagans do that on Halloween and many use this time to try to communicate with those who have departed. It is also an ideal time for tarot readings and such.
There is nothing evil about the holiday, not even from days past. The druids did not participate in human sacrifice. There is no evidence of that at all and it irritates me that people perpetuate that myth. Halloween is simply a tradition left over from the old ways when we used to celebrate the changing of the seasons and the wheel of the year. It simply marks a turn of that wheel. Our family continues to acknowledge that. It is about much more than dressing up and getting candy. It is about being in tune with nature.
2006-10-31 14:11:53 · answer #2 · answered by Amelia 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not knowing it, I never celebrated Halloween.
Halloween is not a holiday, it is just an evening for the children to have fun. In that way it is somehow similar to carnival, but I really prefer carnival. In many parts of Europe Halloween was unknown until a few years ago. I learnt about it through American literature.
Originally it was a feast of the Celts, therefore in the eyes of the church a pagan feast. The church made therefore the 1st November All Saints Day or All Hallows, and the day before was All Hallows Eve. During the course of the years this name turned into Halloween. Mainly Irish immigrants brought this tradition to America, where it was a great success.
2006-10-31 09:09:36 · answer #3 · answered by corleone 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Halloween, better understood as Samhain is an ancient Celt celebration. kind of a holy day, indeed all saints day and all souls day were created to draw pagans into the christian church. According to Celtic lore, Samhain is a time when the boundaries between the world of the living and the world of the dead become thinner, at times even fading away completely, allowing spirits and other supernatural entities to pass between the worlds to socialize with humans. It is the time of the year when ancestors and other departed souls are especially honored
2006-10-31 09:20:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No matter how long ago it was and they even change the name of it, it is still a Pagan Holiday.
The Origin of Halloween
Halloween practices began more than 2,500 years ago with the Festival Of Samhain, which unwilling participants called the Festival of Death. This festival was used to celebrate the coming of the pagan New Year.
Many of the practices and beliefs of Halloween come from a pagan order of priests called Druids. The Druids would dress up in dark robes (costumes) and go from house to house to collect food for their special diet (treat). If you did not have what they wanted, your household could be cursed or, the extreme, a loved one would be taken for a human sacrifice (trick). Druid priests would carry lanterns, made of turnips or gourds, with the face of the evil spirit that guides them carved into it (jack-o-lanterns).
The early Catholic church accepted pagan practices and gave them a religious twist. Nov. 1 was made into All Saints Day and honored those saints who had died the year before. The night before then became All Hallowed Evening, which is known as Halloween. This night became a time of mischief and evil doings.
2006-10-31 09:10:30 · answer #5 · answered by CHAEI 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
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2016-10-21 01:33:33 · answer #6 · answered by comesana 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
halloween may have been a pagan holiday but today it is nothing but some fun for the kids. what;s the harm in dressing up and getting a treat. children have nothing else to do these days why take away halloween
2006-10-31 11:35:16 · answer #7 · answered by lynn 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think Halloween is the greatest day of the year! Kids are taught never to talk to or take candy from strangers, and this is one day a year where we do the complete opposite. Let kids be kids!! Halloween doesn't harm anyone...and you won't have to buy candy for awhile at least...lol. I love Halloween!!
With that said, I grew up in a small town where many of the people were Dutch reform/Rehoboth Christian...they didn't believe in Halloween for whatever reasons. They wouldn't give out candy, but yet somehow their damn kids always showed up at everyone else's door for free candy. I hate that.
2006-10-31 09:03:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
There are probably alot out there like you. Such a shame, because Halloween is such a fun holiday for kids. Your kids will really miss out especially when they see all their friends, neighbours and classmates celebrating. They definitely will choose to be with their friends, dress up and eat candy every year so hopefully you will let them. Lighten up a little. You are a strange person!!!
What is a "God fearing home?" Heather m?????? You are weird.
2006-10-31 10:17:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Halloween is a lot of fun and it is no more pagan than christmas (with its pagan tree and pagan candles) nor any more pagan than easter, with its feritility bunnies and eggs and the goddess who descended into hell for three days and then rose from the dead.
i just learned that genesis is largely derived from egyptian myth, anyway.
2006-10-31 13:11:12 · answer #10 · answered by cassandra 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋