When I was a kid why did "christians" tell me that by watching cartoons or going trick or treating on ?

Question

halloween, makes me a culprit of satan himself?
I do not appreciate them telling me that all

Answer 1

There will always be someone trying to rain on your parade.

Answer 2

Julian X said: Halloween is a christian holiday.
Uh no it's not. It's a Pagan Holy Day, our New Year in fact and one of the most important celebrations we have. It's an honoring of our ancestors, our blood lines, the end of summer and the final harvest of the year -- All Christian holidays are stolen from Pagan traditions and horribly twisted into something of their own making. Christmas mirrors our Winter Solstice, the birth of the SUN -- hence, your birth of the son. Easter is a Pagan fertility celebration -- the word Easter is of the same root as estrogen, the egg is the symbol of the Goddess and the re-birth of the Earth. What's that got to do with a dying resurrected god? And that whole dying, going to the underworld, resurrected god? You think you own that story? Take a look at the ancient mythologies -- Dionysis, Odin, Osirus for starters, all the same story. Yours is just one more. And by the way...Satan is a Christian construct. You own him -- Being told that these things are of Satan is as inaccurate as everythign else they told you, including the existence of jesus himself as a historical figure. Bed time stories -- all of it.

Answer 3

that doesn't sound right. It doesn't make you a culprit. Just misinformed. Some cartoons praise satan, though they will disguise it, so you can't tell. Any cartoon that praises metamorphes, werewolves, fortune telling, demonology, is an instrument for satan.

Halloween on the other hand, used to be a celebration of the saints. But time and people have turned it into a celebration of the devil.

Answer 4

I don't understand the trick-or-treating part.

Halloween is a christian holiday. It is the eve before All Saints Day. The word Halloween is the old-english pronounsiation of the phrase Old Hallos Eve...

I know that some of the traditions are pagan, but so are some of the Christmas tradtions, and some of the Easter traditions.

I've noticed that, for the most part, Christians has no idea what their own religion consists of.

Answer 5

Same thing happened to me! I got screamed at by a neighbor when I knocked on her door one Halloween. She came out spitting, hair flying, ranting about my being a tool of the Devil. I was 6! She definitely seemed possessed.

Answer 6

They are deluded. They believe in things without any testable evidence. They do so because they also were told these idiotic things when they were too young and lacked the intellectual skills to critically examine and reject mere asssertion. Now they are well-conditioned faithbots and can't break out of their program loop.

Answer 7

Because they were either JW's or very very closed minded and WRONG.
You are not a kid anymore, try to put out of your mind all the stuff they pushed into your head as a child and get on with your life.

Answer 8

I don't know why don't you ask them? I watched cartoons and dressed up and I turned out fine ;). My kiddos watch limited amounts of tv, not because of Satan but because too many shows are just plain crap. . .it's a different world.

Answer 9

When I was a kid, I wondered why my youth group was building a haunted house as a fundraiser for the ski trip.

Answer 10

There is a fool born every minute. No wonder they need to be 'saved'. I am sorry that they ruined your childhood. There is nothing wrong with going trick-or-treating. Heck, I still do it myself.

Answer 11

that makes them a culprit of somthing worse!