“Your Thoughts on Halloween”

Wow-you had more than 100!!! I thot we had a lot and we have about 50 kids. That's a lotta apples, ABC!

 

Actually, there were more but my bushel of apples was gone after the first hour of trick-or-treat and I had to turn the light off for the last hour. We live in a rural town and people truck the kids in from the country roads and even from a neighboring town, so we get hit hard. The Methodist pastor lives on the most "upscale" street in town and said he had 800 last year.

No way I could afford that many! One year I taped suckers to tracks and we gave out about 200.

 

If that's the logic, why not take them to your local juice bar? After all, juice is healthy, and it would be a great teaching moment about avoiding watching topless dancers while expounding the goodness of healthy vitamins and having a balanced diet.

I don't exclude everything that allows my children to see evil or we'd not be able to live in this world. However, I do NOT take them to places, events, or celebrations that expressly glorify things such as death and evil.
Halloween expressly glorifies death and evil. Whether you choose to participate in that aspect of it, it IS the basis of Halloween celbrations in the United States. I have not walked into a single store that didn't decorate in bloody, ghoulish themes. The yards aren't decorated with cute little glittery things. They're decorated with fake tombstones and guillotines.

 

Personally I think Halloween expressly glorifies Christ's victory over death and evil. We no longer have to fear the grave or the many routes humans take to get there because Christ rose from the grave with the keys to death and hell in His hands!

PTL!

And while I might not take my child to a topless bar to see neckid women, I've certainly taken them to the Smithsonian Art mueseums and there are plenty of examples there!

There are appropriate venues for "exposing" children to the realities of life. It is up to the parent to decide what is appropriate for their child.

 

You know. It's nearly Halloween and I STILL haven't seen a single tree covered toliet paper. Whatever are kids coming to these day?

:laugh:

 

Exactly. The opportunity for teaching comes in appropriate venues.

I just don't think Halloween is one of them, and I'm pretty sure nobody honestly thinks all the blood and gore is REALLY people celebrating Christ's victory over death. :laugh:

Annsni, that's pretty cool to live in a place like that. Must be nice!
Even as a kid I used to hate it because it was scary. And all we did was throw sheets over our heads with eyes cut out. I remember checking out candy first and chewing carefully because there were stories of people putting needles and such in candy.
But we still ate it.
Smart, huh?

 

Why don't Christians who hate halloween celebrate All Hallow's Eve?

Cheers,

Jim

 

All Hallows Eve and All Saints Day was around long before Halloween. It was not designed to counter Hallowe-en.

Cheers,

Jim

 

Well, anything is possible in the USA, I guess.

Historical facts only have meaning in the rest of the world.

Cheers,

Jim

 

We hate it and probably won't open the door to anyone tonight. One year my husband opened the door to a whole group of children and he told them it was demanding money with menaces. There was an adult present in the background and she slunk away without saying a word.

 

Is History Channel wrong by saying in its documentary that All Saints' Day was originally in May? And "designed to counter Hallowe-en? The day would not have been called such until it was the day before All Saints' Day [a.ka.a All Hallow's]. So I think something in your facts, or at least your terminology ain't right.
All Hallow's Evening
All Hallow's E'en.
Hallow's E'en.
Hallowe'en.
Halloween.

Yeah, it was our superaction comics that built an atomic bomb and put a man on the moon. Don't be too shocked when you hear reports of Aquaman showing up in Bristol Dock riding his seahorse.

 

We do "trunk or treat" at our church, and it is a big-time evangelistic event. Every year, several come to Christ. Not to mention there's a huge turnout from the unchurched--this year, we expect 1,500.

Just two weeks ago, we ordained a deacon. He was saved at our trunk or treat nearly a decade ago.

So, am I for it? Dunno...but it gives us a fine shot at sharing the Gospel with a crowd who might now show up to hear it otherwise.

 

Thanks for insulting my country. I shall not return in kind.

 

I can understand this point of view as I did the same thing last year. I was all prepared to hand out apples last year, but then I saw big groups of teens and adults walking around about half an hour before trick-or-treat started. They were dressed in all black with hideous, bloody, demonic outfits. Some of them carried big objects, like the Grim Reaper and club/sword-like things. I decided not to hand out anything.

I would not open my door to a masked person and freely give them a handout on any other night of the year, so why do it on halloween? Especially if they are carrying big, weapon-like objects! This year was different, with mostly families and young children, so I sat on the porch to hand out my apples to toddlers.

I think it depends on the setting and how people are acting about it.

 

There's the love of Christ for you WWJD...

How many evening do you have the LOST going door to door to a believer's home?

 

I deliver little bags of candies to all those in the shops that serve us all year. It falls on Sunday this year, so I delivered all 77 yesterday, even the liquor store. They all know my Christian background, so I guess that is sort of a witness.

Living in the country, not a soul knocks on my door. Guess they are too scared to walk my 1/4 mile lane through the woods...........

Cheers,

Jim