I want to dress my kids up for Halloween my uncle says this pagan and i shouldn't do it..What say you ??

Answer 1

It IS pagan. So are Easter egg hunts and the Christmas tree.

I never participate in Halloween. Everything about it offends my conscience. Why would a Christian who believes in life and light, want to celebrate death and the demonic, morbid, and dark?

What part does light have with darkness?

Answer 2

Halloween originated in the Pagan / Celtic celebration of Samhain.

Samhain is the Pagan New Year, where we remember our loved ones and ancestors. Traditionally, we would light lanterns to cast out the darkness of the past year, and visit friends and neighbours to share food and drinks.

Halloween is 'All Hallows Eve'. It is the time when the veil between this life and the spirit world is said to be at its thinest, and we remember those who have passed over.


In the late 1800's, the AMERICANS took our traditions and turned them into the Halloween we know today.

As a Pagan ~ Wiccan, I actually get pretty annoyed at the commercialisation of this festival.

But if kids want to dress-up and have some fun, let them. Threre really is no harm in it!

Answer 3

Your uncle is wrong, quite the opposite. Halloween means "All Saints' Eve". It was a time when people would dress up as monsters and set out decorations in order to ward off evil spirits. It is actually an anti-evil holiday, no matter what people may think.

Even is it was an "evil" holiday, I don't see anything wrong with tradition. It's just a night for some good clean fun for kids. If you don't let your kids do it if they want to it could lead to problems later on, like other kids making fun of them.
If your uncle really has a problem with it, and you want to try to comprimise, try dressing your kids up as something not "evil" like zombies, ghosts, or vampires. Let them go as a fireman, policeman, princess, angle, superhero, etc.

Hope I could help some!

Answer 4

Halloween isn't pagan, but Samhain is. Halloween is basically taking the holy New Year and turning it into a day of unoriginal costumes and "fun" sized candy. If your uncle doesn't want anyone celebrating Halloween, then he should automatically not want anyone to celebrate Christmas or Easter either because they both came about in the same way as Halloween.

Answer 5

So what? The kids dress up for Halloween and go around and collect candy. They are not going of to some type of ritual or ceremony.

Most holidays (including Christmas and Easter) have pagan origins. Should you not celebrate those as well?

Your uncle needs to lighten up. The holiday is for kids. It's fun to dress up and collect candy. Where else can one legally go around and collect candy from strangers and have it be o.k.?

To make your uncle feel better, maybe your kids can take some candy from their stashes to be distributed to kids who couldn't go trick-or-treating? Give some to charity.

Answer 6

The roots of Halloween do go back to pagan roots, and was a pagan festival...but that was a looong time ago, and in a land very far from here.

However, Halloween as we celebrate it today has about as much to do with that pagan festival as Christmas has to do with the ancient festival of Yuletide. So, while your uncle is technically right, he's just parroting Fundie Agitprop about why they don't want to let their kids have fun, and has nothing really to do with the holiday as it's done today.

Evergreen trees (xmas trees), decorations, mistletoe, holly, little lights on the trees, exchange of presents, are all from the pagan Yuletide festival. Still gonna celebrate Christmas?

Answer 7

It depends on how you look at it. Halloween originally came from pagan beliefs, but nowadays it is more about just having fun and dressing up, eating candy, etc. My parents never let me go out and dress up when I was little for religious reasons, and I kind of wish they had, because it would have been fun.

If you don't want to for religious reasons, you could take them to see a movie, or go swimming at a pool, or find something else fun to do instead. Or maybe explain to them what Halloween means, and why you don't want to be involved with it, etc.

Answer 8

How do you feel, ask yourself that question. Then think about it, because your uncle is right. There is nothing fun about Halloween, it's a cold and spooky night, and very dangerous. Nothing clean about it. To teach your children to do what everybody else is doing, like everybody else is teaching them to participate in the things of this wicked world, is not very positive. My children don't celebrate Halloween, they don't like it.

Answer 9

Possibly your uncle is operating under the Old Testament version of our existence here on Earth. In that version there are many do's and don't's but in the New Testament we are freed from those and allowed to have freedom because we have trusted Jesus Christ for our salvation, meaning that we cannot achieve it ourselves no matter how hard we try. Halloween is supposedly a Pagan celebration but it is also a time of the year that kids look forward to with great anticipation. I doubt that you will take your children on that night and go to a seance to summon the dead. It is harmless fun. Indulge them in it with no thought of guilt.

Answer 10

Dress your kids up for Halloween. They are your children not your uncle's children.

You have every right as a parent to do what you think is best for your children no one should tell you otherwise

Answer 11

Everyone must be convinced in his own mind...I agree with your uncle it is pagan....if you are a Christian who are you representing if you allow your kids to dress up like witches and goblins....what is the source of their power.....
A lot of churches give alternatives to this holiday ritual in ours we have games, candy, music, and entertainment so the kids won't feel deprived....