Christians: What are your opinions of Halloween; do you celebrate it? why or why not?

Question

I personally do not celebrate it. It seems to be a fun day for kids, however, Halloween is a day for all sorts of immorality- where freakish, horrid things are shown in movies, and large drunken parties are held as well.

I mean, not all aspects of Halloween are bad. Children get to dress up and get candy, that's ok I suppose, yet it seems that this is a Holiday that Christians shouldn't be celebrating.

That's just my opinion; it doesn't make you any more of a sinner if you and your family celebrates it... lol

So, what do y'all think about the holiday of Halloween?

Answer 1

Halloween has never meant much to me except that I'd get to dress up and beg candy off strangers. Coming from a Christian home, my parents never celebrated Halloween, instead giving out tracts and candy to other trick-or-treaters. I always felt like I was missing out on something. Halloween is when parents dress themselves up then dress up their own kids and take them and have fun. Sure, you should be careful out there, but that shouldn't stop you. My mom was (and is) a bit unreasonably paranoid, and my father is a religious hypocrite. I would have loved to go out in an adorable little costume and gotten free candy. One year a little girl asked me why I wasn't in costume and getting candy. My thoughts immediately went to my parents. I could never and still don't understand why my parents wouldn't take us out. We may have been six rambunctious kids, but we weren't stupid. I don't think of Halloween as celebrating Satan or drunkeness or anything other than pure fun. I'll admit, there are many aspects to Halloween I don't like, such as the excuse to dress like a $lut and no one is able to call you on it ('cause it's Halloween), the drunken parties, the fact that a lot of pervy people are out scouting, and then there's that stupid thing where people are "poisoning" the candy and crap like that. All in all, Halloween is not bad holiday, but I think it depends on your point of view, and what you define as bad. I personally don't mind Halloween, but I know that my parents don't like it, so I've given up on guilt-tripping them.

Answer 2

Halloween began as 'hallowed evening' but unfortunately, it deteriorated into Halloween, a night of devilish revelry in which Satanistic witchraft is glorified. I believe that Christians have no business participating in it. Kids will always love the candy and fun. But unfortunately, the fun has taken on a dark side in the last decade. It is unfortunate that although some 80+% of Americans believe in God, far less believe in a real devil. However, what they believe does not change reality. Satan is real, Demons are real and they love the attentionh they get at Halloween. People today spend more on Halloween decorations than they do on Christmas decorations. It's sick. It brings out all the wierdos. What has always bothered me is that the public schools who do not allow anyone to push Christianity in the schools, see nothing wrong with pushing the 'religion' of satanism and halloween. Wiccans and pagans and Spiritists love it! Its the new OK religion in the public schools.

Answer 3

I like it, its my favorite holiday. I'm sorry to say this, but I like it more than Christmas. The thing is, Christmas has been corrupted by the stores. It is not CHRISTmas, it is just a gift giving occation. I still love Halloween, becuase it has a lot of history and tradition to it still, even if some of thoes are not exactly Christian. Christimas has what, trees, and that's it? Most of its traditions are from Charles Dickens, who proliferated the whole idea of Christmas being all about "family cheer". Before that, I heard people did not make that big of deal about the holiday.

Many of thoes old traditions of Halloween still ring true today rather than being concotions, like when people dressed in costumes to discise themselves from spirits that were supposed to roam the night. Many traditions like bobbing for applies also go back to Roman harvest festivals. Today, we know better about spirtits not attacking us on Oct. 31, but it is still in good fun. I'm also a fantacy buff, so this is a time when all that paranormal stuff is addressed. I do not believe ghosts and demons are sinful, as there is no proof that it is real, and I do not pray to them or anything like that.

I don't like the crap about the wild drinking parties or all the movies glorifying serial killers, but the rest of the holliday is all in good fun. Who doens't like a good scare now and then with a harmless ghost story, or a fun apple bob?

Answer 4

The roots of the celebration of halloween go right back to a PRE-CHRISTIAN pagan celebration where dead spirits where counjured up from the the underworld and worshipped, and appeased through the fear of those who were living, who were afraid of the revenge of these spirits in the world of the living....in a ritual known as ' ALL HALLOWS EVE '...every celebration including christmas, birthdays, mother/fathers day, saint valentines day, saints days..etc are all based on celebrations that actually oppossed true christianity and it was only with the advent of constantine conquering his enemies , with a so called justified holy crusade where many thousand's where slaughtered in the name of God...( a serious blasphemy in Gods eyes ) that all these celebrations became acceptable and were then emalgamated into the condensed form of christianity we know today.Constantine was a pagan, a sun worshipper, and remained so even though he became leader of the roman catholic church......and in order to keep his followers happy he sanctioned the intergration of paganism with the teachings of christ to gain religious and political domination in europe.True chritians are advised by the scriptures not to celeberate pagan festivals, its offensive to God.However, I would say the celebrating of it should remain a personal choice.SEE...GENESIS 40 V 20, MATTHEW 14 V 6, ROMANS 13 V 13, GALATIONS 5 V21 and 1 PETER 4 V 3.

Answer 5

I am a Christian and I have been going to church my whole life and i know more about the bible than most everybody in our church.....and i don't think it's wrong to celebrate Halloween. but that's just my opinion.....however i do think i you start to bring the devil into it then it's not good.....but also Halloween used to be All Hallows Eve and it wasn't a holiday to celebrate the devil and i am pretty sure it was to honor the people who had passed away that year and i think it's OK to have a little fun at Halloween....and i do not agree with that other person i don't think you will go to hell for celebration Halloween as long as you continue to live for God and repent and be baptized and be saved and you don't start worshiping the devil and celebrating him on Halloween...so yeah pretty much i think its all right

Answer 6

I do not see some thing improper with Holloween. Im conscious that alot of devout men and women refuse to have fun it, however i dont see what is improper with celebrating it as a christian! I imply, so long as you are now not worried in a few type of witchcraft or satanic exercise that day, then what is the predicament? haha. Holloween is effortlessly an afternoon wherein men and women will also be what they cant be some other day of the 12 months and its additionally an afternoon to revel in getting sweet and having a well time!! Buutt with that being stated, holloween is an afternoon of worry and terror. A day wherein men and women get dressed up as characters which are darkish and miserable xP sooo i will recognize why a devout man or woman would not desire to take facet in a vacation that's intended to scare the daylights outta men and women. haha however nonetheless... its now not such as you ought to get dressed up like a demon and positioned blood all over the place and lacking limbs for your porch to revel in holloween xP

Answer 7

If you separate any religious aspect of the holiday and only celebrate it as a fun day, then I don't see what the harm is. It only has the meaning that you give to it.

My family celebrates Halloween and we go trick or treating as a family. I also love horror movies, especially the classic black and white ones!

Answer 8

Personally, I celebrate Halloween. But I don't celebrate its origins. Samhain and the pagonistic bits connected to it have seemed to have fallen away from the holiday. As it gets more and more commercialized, it gets less and less dark. So sure, I dress up and go walking around the neighborhood looking for candy, but I don't sit on my couch, watching horror films or go out back and make a bonfire for a Coven to dance around. The holiday's benign in its current state unless you go delving too far into it.

Answer 9

I love it.
It is a time when kids are allowed to express themselves with a freedom they don't enjoy at any other time. They can dress up in the most garish and silly costumes they can imagine...they can run amok with the make up...they can play the most ridiculous pranks...and they can go from house to house and collect candy!
If it ever was "Satan's day", he'll just have to watch all these wonderfully silly, innocent children making a mockery of him and his "boogey man"...what a kick in the teeth for the old liar!

Yep, Halloween is one of my favorite reasons to keep October in the calendar.
(The other reason is that it is my birthday! I just turned 57...somebody give me a HUG!!)

Answer 10

I'll give sweets to the kids who knock on the door and say the Trick or Treat line but other than that, just stay in the home and watch Television. I'm too old for Halloween.