2007-09-08 08:30:35 · 39 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
NEVER!
2007-09-08 08:33:32 · answer #1 · answered by tas211 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Halloween is just the celebration of All Saints Day, which is a Christian holiday!!!
All the people making a fuss about this are the same people (mostly Baptists or Presbyterians) who have a big thing about Santa Claus - St. Nicholas was a real Christian Saint who helped poor people and died for the Christian Faith! How dare you not respect him!
Just tell your kids the true story of St. Nicholas, and what he did for people, and tell them all the rest is to respect his memory and to have fun. Your kids will have no problem with that as long as the presents keep coming (ha ha!)
Me, I'm going as vampire, but a Christian vampire!!!
2007-09-08 08:37:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not only am I celebrating Halloween I cant wait to go to all the haunted houses that spring up around Halloweentime.
and my church does a big trunk or treat the weekend before halloween and a big halloween party inside with games and a costume contest!!
2007-09-08 08:34:56 · answer #3 · answered by cadisneygirl 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not a Christian and yes I will be celebrating! Although I live in a small, very religious town that won't allow any school to have a Halloween party, the rest of us "sinners" will be out and about on Trick or Treat night.lol
2007-09-08 09:41:36 · answer #4 · answered by Elphaba 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nice question...
Considering that Halloween is a CHRISTIAN holiday... that's right...
It's just another holiday (All hallows eve) in a long list that Christians created to counteract paganism.
The original Holiday, Samhain (pronounced "Sow-en"), was a fall equinox Holiday that was widely celebrated in Europe before the advent of Christianity.
All Hallows Eve was declared as the "new Holiday" by the church (which they saw as a gracious way to convert pagans without making them give up their festivities).
To learn the basics about this:
http://www.history.com/minisites/halloween/viewPage?pageId=713
2007-09-08 09:09:45 · answer #5 · answered by rabble rouser 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My favorite holiday, so I surely will.
Are you going to celebrate Christmas?
Our family always gets together on both occasions.
On Halloween we have a hayride at dusk and a haunted cemetery and house. This brings our family together in one place at one time. Those who play together and those who pray together, stay together.
On Christmas we celebrate the birth of Christ, whichever day that was, and the gifts He has given thru out our lives and the remembrance of the gift He gave on the cross.
Christmas has been so polluted by Satan Clause thru commercialization and the substitution of a character, which in essence has replaced God, that we don't celebrate as "Christ""mass”.
Whenever we follow the traditions OF man INSTEAD of God’s Word, we, as men of flesh and following after the flesh, Dishonor (discredit or disgrace) God.
Rabble rouser: I totally agree, however, it wasn’t the TRUE Christians that created this to, as you say, counteract paganism. It was the “False” church attempting to replace the “True” church, which they labeled pagans.
Have you ever noticed the resemblances between Christ and Santa?
They know when you’re a sleep or wake
They know when you’ve been good or bad,
Christ had 12 disciples, Santa 12 reindeer
Both clothed in red, Jesus with His cleansing blood, and Santa with a cloak of red to resemble Christ, to look like Christ.
They both ascend, Jesus into heaven, Santa up the fiery chimney
They both know if you’ve been good or bad & of the consequences of not being so: Jesus is coming with the free gift of his finished work on the cross and Santa is coming with his bag of things that please the man of flesh.
PS: I celebrate the 4th of July too. The celebration of our independence from English rule, which limited freedom of religion by imposed demands to believe as one “Belief” or else.
2007-09-09 10:29:12 · answer #6 · answered by Left Behind 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm Christian, why wouldn't I celebrate Halloween?
2007-09-08 08:37:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely not! What's to celebrate? Death? Witchcraft, demonic spirits? .... Last time I checked, death still brought grief to those who lost someone they loved. Hardly a thing to throw a party over! Witchcraft is a form seeking power from the realm of darkness, that inevitably brings negative consequences for the one involved in it. and demons, well, anyone who has ever seen a real one doesn't have a desire to do so again! satan laughs at our foolishness, as we revel as a nation in rebelliousness toward God. He will still be the only one laughing when the 'party is over' and the mocking crowd is keeping him company in hell, where 'everyday' is halloween!
2007-09-08 08:55:09 · answer #8 · answered by God's Fountain Pen 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Sure, by putting up scary decorations, carving a pumpkin, watching a scary movie, and passing out candy to all the kids! What's wrong with that?
2007-09-08 08:50:05 · answer #9 · answered by kaz716 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no, I don't believe in Halloween. I don't believe in how it started, what it represents and how satan and the world have perverted it like everything else. I do not want to subject my kids to getting or sick from poisoned candy that some wierdo gives out as a joke or just to be evil and mean. : D
2007-09-08 08:41:59 · answer #10 · answered by jojo9 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Only if you promise to celebrate Christmas.
2007-09-08 08:35:17 · answer #11 · answered by Menon R 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋