Christians: What do you do on Halloween?
Im curious to know what fellow belivers do with halloween.

Everyone else: What do you think about Christians and Halloween ( What are your thoughts on why Christians don't celebrate it)

Some say to have a separate thing at the church so the kids don't feel left out. Others say that is still in an sense celebrating it. All religious holidays have pagan roots. I am not really into celebrating any holidays except the 4th of July.

I don't have a problem with the tick-or-treating aspect of Halloween. I understand the history of Halloween, but if the kids aren't getting involved in the pagan aspects, then I am all right with it. If the kids what to dress up in a costume that isn't focusing on something evil or such and go door to door getting candy, I say that's cool by me. I do understand why my fellow Christians would not want to participate, and that's fine by me too.

We don't celebrate halloween. There is a Christian concert called Light in the Night that started a few years ago as an alternative. It being on Wednesday this year, we'll be at church for the family classes. We're going through the Truth Project.

We don't celebrate halloween. There is a Christian concert called Light in the Night that started a few years ago as an alternative. It being on Wednesday this year, we'll be at church for the family classes. We're going through the Truth Project.



I don't Celebrate it either. Its hard because my friends are always on my case. And all of them happen to be very big on halloween. I made the desicison about 2 years ago when my youth group did a study on halloween. I never understood the history behind it and when I did I decided not to celebrate it anymore. This year, Im helping in a booth at my church's Harvest Fest.(Halloween Alternitive).

Our church started a food drive last year and we were overwhelmed with donations. They sent out bags the week before in the weekly flyers. We blitzed the entire city (pop 35000). In our church some people take their kids out and some don't, no-one is very vocal about it and we don't let our kids dress as ghouls or goblins, but we still run our kids around for a short trick or treat. After that me and the older one go and help with the food drive and it is really a nice way to do something good on a contraversial day.

I ignore the history behind Halloween.
To me, it means nothing.
I don't feel the origin of Halloween is relevant in this day and time anyway - others still do and I respect that.

Halloween to us is just a time where my kids and I can dress up, act silly, eat candy, carve pumpkins
And have fun together just doing something out of the norm - that's what I'm celerbrating...

For those who still read deeper into it than others and choose not to
Celebrate (whether it be religious or personal) or those who choose alternatives, I say that's great too.
We all should do what works for us and makes us comfortable...
But for me personally, I enjoy that one crazy night out of the year spent with my kids.
Not because of the origin, but because its something I can enjoy with my children.

[... We all should do what works for us and makes us comfortable... ]

Seems to me that I recall (Last weeek [yes a long one] is just now finishing up for me and I'm a bit groggy so I could be remembering wrong or a bit off with the paraphrase) a passage that sums up Let every man (woman too) work out his own salvation with fear and trembling.

I think AKae has spoken well. What is wrong for one may be acceptable for another.

Christians: What do you do on Halloween?
Im curious to know what fellow belivers do with halloween.

Everyone else: What do you think about Christians and Halloween ( What are your thoughts on why Christians dont celebrate it)
Being that Halloween is a pagan celebration, with origins and traditions steeped in false religious beliefs and worship, as a Christian I have absolutely no share in Halloween and completely reject it. Some may say they disregard the background of where Halloween came from and try to lighten it up by making it "just a fun time for the kids", and then these same ones will turn around and say how much they love God, but they fail to consider God's viewpoint on the whole thing. HE doesn't disregard where it came from and what its history is. God's view on everything associated with it should be what's most important to us, and the fact is there is nothing redeeming about a holiday mired in false religious beliefs.

When I was a kid, it was a safe, fun time, and fewer people took witches seriously. All the Christians I knew, freely joined in the fun. Now the manger has been banned from the public square and some are working on the Christmas Tree. How tolerant of public support of paganism should Christians be?

... then these same ones will turn around and say how much they love God, but they fail to consider God's viewpoint on the whole thing. Just to point out the obvious: YOU have no say on what god's viewpoint is. If people want to enjoy halloween as simply a fun dressing up and candy event then by all means they should have fun.

First as practiced in the US, it is just a fun day for kids, nothing evil about it. I decorate the yard with scare crows, pumpkins and the such.

I give out candy to the kids that come around, and take my son out to get candy.

It is a fun day of pretending and dress up. No reason at all a Christian can not have fun and enjoy it.

Good point, look at how many adopt the externals of Christmas without believing.

Just to point out the obvious: YOU have no say on what god's viewpoint is. If people want to enjoy halloween as simply a fun dressing up and candy event then by all means they should have fun.

Actually, the obvious is that I DO have a say on what god's viewpoint is. I can read the Bible, it's right there, plain and simple what kinds of things people are to avoid... one such thing is spiritism. Halloween is based on false religious views of the soul, and its origins are steeped in pagan, spiritistic beliefs and practices. People can call it a "fun day just for the kids" all they want. They'll answer for it.

In fact, it can be likened to coming across a lollipop lying in a filthy gutter. The lollipop itself might be sweet, but nobody would want anything to do with it considering where it came from. The same applies to holidays like Halloween. It may seem "sweet" in the sense of being fun and enjoyable for the kids, but where it came from, its origins, are filthy and certainly nothing that would have God's approval on it.

All those innocent children going to hell. It's sad...

if it were true (which it isn't).


Right... I forgot... because YOU say so, it can't be true. Is that it? But then again, it appears you believe in the ridiculous notion of a burning hell, so I guess there goes any credibility there.

As Anderson M. Rearick, III says, "I am reluctant to give up what was one of the highlights of my childhood calendar to the Great Imposter and Chief of Liars for no reason except that some of his servants claim it as his."

Run, run for your lives, the devil is everywhere!!

Run, run for your lives, the devil is everywhere!!!!!!!


No, unlike God, Satan cannot be in more than one place at a time.

However, he has more than enough servants to go around.

Yet, for all their brashness and boasting, they cower and tremble at the name of Jesus.

1 John 4:3-4


3but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.

4You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

Run, run for your lives, the devil is everywhere!!!!!!!

Actually no, this is merely a lie many of his followers wish us to believe, The devil hisself can only be in one place at a time, but his followers, his beleivers and the demons that serve him can be and are many places

No Halloween celebrations here. I used to be big on Halloween - as a child and then as an adult (decorating the home and dressing up and handing on treats). But that all changed when my oldest son was in kindergarten - he was five. He went to school the week of halloween and just screamed when he went in the class. The teacher and her aide had decorated the room in spider webs, ghosts, devils, witches, even a cauldron with fake blood. He refused to go in the class. He told me, "Jesus won't like me to go in there." Now neither my husband nor I had talked to him about the correlation between Halloween and any evil or wicked or anti-Jesus. That came out of the mouth of the babe there. Kids are smarter than we give them credit for.

Since then, no Halloween parties, although we would participate in our church's alternative activities.

While the word "Halloween" is a label for a pagan holiday, the word is actually derived from a Catholic holiday that coincides with the date. "All Hallows Eve" and "All Souls Day" start at sunset on 10/31.

It's like wishing people "happy holidays" at the end of each year. Halloween has lost it's original pagan meaning and is just a fun time for kids (and adults) to dress up and goof around a bit. Nobody really cares about it's origin any more.

It's like wishing people "happy holidays" at the end of each year. Halloween has lost it's original pagan meaning and is just a fun time for kids (and adults) to dress up and goof around a bit. Nobody really cares about it's origin any more.

God certainly does, and certainly wouldn't approve of it, even if people think it's just a "fun time". You can have fun in many ways that don't involve false religious pagan celebrations.

Is it a sin for kids to dress up like cowboys, princeses, kitty cats, dogs, lions, fire fighter, and such? Is it a sin to go to your neighbor's house and have them give the kids candy? This aspect of Halloween is what I just don't have a problem with.

Christmas was specifically placed on Dec 25 so as to coincide with pagan solstice celebrations. Gift giving and praying on that date are pagan traditions.

Certainly we can find ways to celebrate Christ's birth that don't involve false religious pagan celebrations. Should we cancel, or reschedule Christmas this year?

Christmas was specifically placed on Dec 25 so as to coincide with pagan solstice celebrations. Gift giving and praying on that date are pagan traditions.

Certainly we can find ways to celebrate Christ's birth that don't involve false religious pagan celebrations. Should we cancel, or reschedule Christmas this year?

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Christmas was specifically placed on Dec 25 so as to coincide with pagan solstice celebrations. Gift giving and praying on that date are pagan traditions.

Certainly we can find ways to celebrate Christ's birth that don't involve false religious pagan celebrations. Should we cancel, or reschedule Christmas this year?


People are finding wys to not say "Merry Chirstmas" Instead they say "Happy Holidays"
Most Christians don't like that. Same as Halloween, People don't like that we don't celbrate it. Or they think its strange.

Silentrascal, you make god sound like a dictator, like he put us on this earth just to reproduce and die. Well that's what I have observed from all your posts I have read in multiple threads. God does not care tha kids dress up. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if he supported it because, kids learn about their heroes and have fun.

I think god has bigger things to worry about then costumes being worn, and familys coming together.

Oh shut up about God. We are all people. We are all on this earth together. I'm wiccan I act celebrate halloween as as a sabbat so the origin isn't exactly satanic. Pack it in.

Personally, I always got insanely bored at the church parties where you could only dress up as something from the bible.

I agree completely about the Christmas thing as well. Most of the 'christian' holidays were merged with Pagan holidays in order to make them easier for the pagans to embrace when they were converted. Does that make them evil? No.

Halloween is just another day unless you choose to make a production out of it.

Christians: What do you do on Halloween?
Im curious to know what fellow belivers do with halloween.

Everyone else: What do you think about Christians and Halloween ( What are your thoughts on why Christians dont celebrate it)

Halloween comes from the term All Hallows Evening. Hallows is the Old English Term for Saints.

In Protestant countries the beautiful Catholic tradition of celebrating the Communion of Saints on All Saints Day and All Souls Day, has been corrupted into a pagan ritual which does not resemble the Catholic Holy Days at all.

However, on the night in which non Catholics and unwitting Catholics celebrate Halloween, Catholics begin to celebrate the eve of All Saints Day by attending Mass and praying for the Christians who have gone before us. This continues on the following day.
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: All Saints' Day (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01315a.htm)
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: All Souls' Day (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01315b.htm)

Sincerely,

De Maria

Just to point out the obvious: YOU have no say on what god's viewpoint is. If people want to enjoy halloween as simply a fun dressing up and candy event then by all means they should have fun.

I couldn't have said it better myself. ;)

[QUOTE=. They'll answer for it.

Are you speaking for God now?? :eek:

God certainly does, and certainly wouldn't approve of it, even if people think it's just a "fun time". You can have fun in many ways that don't involve false religious pagan celebrations.

I bet God is thinking to himself... Geeeezzz people, quit telling others how I am judging them and take a chill pill.
God knows your heart and thoughts and if you have evil intent or if you are just playing dress-up. Give God a little credit here.

I love Halloween. It's also Reformation. Martin Luther 95 Theses on the church wall.
I celebrate them both.

I don't even know why this is up for debate. It is a silly. Trick or Treat is for kids and they LOVE dressing up and having fun. Enjoy it. If you ask me EVERYDAY is Satan's day... it is all in what YOU do with that day. I say enjoy the fun and move on!