People act like they will have to get their kids therapy later in life if they let them trick or treat or like they are going to go to hell, i don't get it.
2006-11-01 06:27:28 · 13 answers · asked by dmgoldsbo7 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Halloween
They point to the origins of the holiday, and say that it is so obviously evil. I tell these people damn, the origins have long since been lost in the sands of time and now it's just an excuse to dress up, get with friends, and eat some candy. Some people just don't get it. The meaning of life is to eat and be merry.
2006-11-01 06:31:11 · answer #1 · answered by Tony, ya feel me? 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Jesus said MANY PEOPLE will be on the wide road leading off into destruction - the others, the ones who hate Halloween are striving to get into the narrow gate, they are on the narrow path that lead to ETERNNAL life. Why be like the 5 foolish virgins who ran out of oil for their lamps, when the Lord returned they tried getting in to heaven, but the door was closed. Few are the ones finding eternal life. Why run with the world? I'd rather endure being rejected by the world to gain real happiness for ever. Peace out !
2006-11-01 15:29:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't get their problem with it all. There is nothing explicitly evil in the origins of Halloween. It comes to us from the Irish "Samhain" holiday which was about the end of the harvest and transition to the colder, darker months. Also, since the nights were getting darker they believed this was a time where the veil between the worlds of living and dead was thin so that spirits might be around. From this over time culture morphed it into end of the harvest and honoring your ancestors celebrations. From there Christianity took it and tried to make it over, this was their least successfully adapted pagan holiday though as it retained more of its earlier meanings. Meanings I think can and do still have relevance to us today; life transitions both physical and seasonal, contemplation of life and death, rememberance of loved ones, and confronting mortality. Not to mention its a lot of fun. At any rate they seem to choose to forget that Easter and even Christmas have their roots firmly planted in older religious/cultural traditions and are adaptations of celebrations that came before them. Get over it I say!! =)
2006-11-01 14:44:09 · answer #3 · answered by Zen Pirate 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Some people don't like it because of its Pagan origins, and they think anything pagan is evil (it's not, it has to do with celebrating the cycles of life and nature).
Others don't like it because it's dark and spooky. That part I understand, but I learned at one point that it's about putting on the shoes of your fears and walking around in them so that it loses its power to frighten you. I think it's better to examine your fears rather than run from them continually, but not everyone agrees.
Halloween is the least likely thing to cause kids to need therapy. I think they'd be more likely to need therapy to undersand why they aren't allowed to go out and have fun like other kids.
2006-11-01 15:03:18 · answer #4 · answered by KC 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Halloween has to be the dumbest day of the year. Your whole life your parents, school, news, TV, basically anybody older than you tells you not to take candy from strangers. Then on Halloween you go around in strangers houses for candy kind of ironic don't you think.
2006-11-01 14:36:31 · answer #5 · answered by joe d 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They feel the need to suck the fun and life out of everything. Probably the same people who will only say Happy Holidays and not Merry Christmas.
2006-11-01 14:35:42 · answer #6 · answered by BAnne 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
People just don't understand it They still believe it is a religious holiday and the day of the devil what they don't understand is that now-a-days its only about the costumes and the treats
2006-11-01 14:53:10 · answer #7 · answered by wingnut1974 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
no i know its just a bit of fun... apart from the real devil worshippers, but a bit of trick or treating is hardly going to harm anyone
2006-11-01 14:32:07 · answer #8 · answered by sarahstar111 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
they always need something to complain about those holy rollers.give me a break and let kids enjoy it.
2006-11-01 14:32:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Because people like candy and being wered.
2006-11-01 14:36:03 · answer #10 · answered by Heather Z 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋