Should Christians celebrate Halloween?
Sunday, October 08, 2006
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8 comments:
I think we should. I see nothing wrong with kids dressing up and going trick or treating. Personally, Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays.
Now, if you are concerned about your kids dressing as the devil and the blood and gore, you should be, if they aren't Christians. It is up to you. Dress them up as Christian saints, Wesley, or Luther, or Paul and Silas, etc. Of course, they'll get beat up, but that is probably a good lesson in itself.
I'd say we should use Halloween to teach and remind ourselves and our kids that the Enemy and his agents are real. That they do roam the earth an we are at war with them. However as Christians, while we do fall under that attach, we really have nothing to fear. Christ said, do not fear one who can take your life, fear the one who can take your soul.
I'll be trick or treating while the rest of you figure it out.
Do Christians celebrate Christmas, Easter, and birthdays? They all have pagan roots, according to my Jehova's Witness student's mother. So I say absolutely! It's my favorite holiday!
Absolutely.
Maybe not celebrate - maybe join in the fun in a wholesome way?
The room is spinning and I'm getting woozy -- Joel Thomas is more conservative than me!
This is an interesting topic. In Finland Hallowe'en has not been traditionally celebrated - now it's becoming popular. It's all the ghools and ghosts and vampires - along with new age stuff like fortune telling and I at least want nothing to do with it.
I grew up with a traditional pagan Halloween, dressing as Dracula, as well as Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. My parents are solidly theologically and morally conservative, so it never occurred to me that there was anything wrong with it. I can understand that, in theory, it's unChristian. But it's like reading Harry Potter and playing Dungeons and Dragons. Like, get a life, critics.
So you're right that the pagan elements of these holidays don't belong at Church. But they're okay at home, if that dichtomy makes any sense.
I was required to read a Harry Potter novel in library school, but I didn't like it. Rather boring.
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