Who else does not celebrate Halloween because of their religious beliefs?

Question

I do not celebrate Halloween due to my being a Christian and not wanting to worship the dead I used to celebrate it until
I found out what we were celebrateing or I would do something else instead of celebrateing it like going to a church service or going to a celebration of fall

Answer 1

I didn't know "being a Christian" prevented you from celebrating Halloween.

We are Christians (as is the entire family) and all of us celebrate Halloween. We go to church for All Souls/Saints Day also.

Celebrating one doesn't mean you have to abstain from the other.

Answer 2

Having studied christianity very deeply for many years, I can fully understand you not wanting to celebrate Halloween. I am no longer a christian, though I am a devout believer in God. I don't "celebrate" halloween simply because it's nothing but another excuse for retailers to make money based on a pagan concept... which kind of pisses me off. I'm wierd about that stuff.

I do want to make one small correction though... Halloween is not a celebration of the Dead. If it was, it would actually probably be more accepted by christianity (like Dia De Los Muertos is to Hispanic Catholics, etc). What Halloween is, is actually a culmination of more than one ancient event.

All Saints Day - A pagan celebration of saints (Hallowed men, hence All -Hallows Day)

Many druidic and mystic beliefs (including witchcraft and others) have for hundreds, even thousands, of years felt that this was a very magically powerful time of year as well, when spirits were the easiest to contact, and when magical energies were at their most potent, etc.

The combination after All Saints Day was moved to the first of Nov. a long time ago turned the day before into All Hallow's Eve... Halloween, and thus the mixing of "spirits and magic" and all things strange and mystical turned into a giant "celebration" of such.

I think that a lot of religions look down on the holiday because it directly opposes many of the ideoligical rules, but at the same time, it is not really worried about because of the fact that no one takes the holiday seriously for the most part. Those people that do... well, they aren't exactly showing up to church on sunday anyway, heh.

Though the free candy is nice.

Answer 3

Some Jewish people will not celebrate Halloween because of Halloween's origins as a pagan holiday. It is really only the orthodox Jews who don't celebrate it because it is the equivalent of performing idol worship (forbidden by Jewish law,) and therefore would not be allowed to Jews.

Most Jews have no problem celebrating Halloween because it no longer has the pagan connotation to it, so they don't feel it is a problem.

Answer 4

I don't celebrate Halloween, either. And, it's because I read the Sam Payne story about the holiday. I'm a Christian also, but I don't think Jesus condemns those who celebrate Halloween. Because most Christians who celebrate Halloween that I know of do it simply because it's fun and they don't realize exactly what it's all about. Google Sam Payne. It's amazing what you'll find out. Peace.

Answer 5

Im christian too and it honestly doesnt have much with worshipping the dead anymore. The meanings to these holidays have changed so much in the years. Now halloween is a time for children to dress up and and get candy for one night...not worshiping the dead. If you are comparing tick or treating with vodoo doctors or witchdoctors then you have your whole religious views all wacked.

Answer 6

There is nothing wrong with celebrating or not celebrating. I just like doing it one because i'm pagan and I go with the true orgins of the halloween which is Samhaim. pronounced Sow-in. In honor of the elders who have passed way.

Tonight me and my friends will be going to the beach around midnight and we are going to put rose petals in the water in honor of those who have left us. I am doing in honor of my father and my aunts who died of cancer. My friend is doing it for her mother who died of cancer as well as her grandmother.

Although i have to say. When I was younger bring on the free candy. We would always be in a group and only go the houses that we knew and the lights where on and only the ones that were decorated.

Answer 7

Jehovah's Witnesses, although Christian, don't celebrate Halloween and many other "Christian" holidays because of the pagan origins that these stem from.

Many "Christian" denominations do not see a problem with celebrating Holloween. This of course, Is against Jesus words when he said that the law of God is overtstepped when people chose traditions over God's word. (Matthew 15:3)

Answer 8

Llanolyn is on the brink of the nicely perfect answer except that the early church nonetheless kept some factors of Jewish custom in that holy days began at nightfall the day before today - with the Eve. So, operating example, Christmas Eve did not recommend the day till now Christmas Day, it meant the evening of Christmas which got here till now the Day of Christmas. So All Saints Eve (Hallowe'en) became area of the Catholic All Saints party, followed by technique of All Saints Day. There would were a vigil with church bells being rung, bonfires to save warmth, processions etc - and, inevitably, quite partying. the important church provider became contained in the morning. the theory that it really is in any respect evil got here with the reformation even as many Protestants grew to change into adverse to the idea of venerating Saints. Puritans in certain denounced All Saints as pagan, un-biblical, devil worship and so on. and tried to restrict it. Church facilities quite a lot stopped , bell ringing became banned, leaving in basic terms vestiges of the evening's celebrations yet now linked by technique of many with wickedness.

Answer 9

I don't really celebrate it. I've only gone trick-or-treating once. It was last year. Up until then, my parents wouldn't let me go. I convinced them that I wasn't worshipping evil-ish things...I just went for the candy! I'm christian too, and I don't believe in all this mumbo-jumbo...lol I just love candy!

Answer 10

I don't celebrate haloween because I am a Christian too... All I do to occupy myself during that time is watch movies or play games on the computer...