Should Christians Celebrate Halloween?

Kimber-Lee Sarah Hodgen

Society today is so driven trying to force their beliefs that it is ridiculous.

I believe in God, but I also believe that there is more. Samhain is a celebration of the final harvest "Samhain, meaning 'Summer’s End'in Irish, is an ancient Celtic festival marking the end of summer and beginning of winter. The same is true of Bealtaine which marks the end of winter and the beginning of summer.

These are the ideologies representing death then rebirth (just as baptism is a symbol of rebirth).

I enjoy All Hollow's Eve as a time to celebrate the change of seasons. In today's world, enjoying the decorations, the costumes, and of course the sweets (peanut butter cups are my favorite).

Historically, it has been determined that the "Christian" faith has it's beginnings with Pagen roots. We all have our own opinions, but you should never discount someone's belief system.

Just a reminder: the ULC celebrates all faiths.

"We are all children of the same universe"

Blessing to all.

Leslie A. Hulberg Née Tomasura

Well, here we go again. Someone fears and wants others to fear. But in truth, there’s no reason to fear because it is really just a celebration of the last harvest of the season before winter sets in. If the costumes scare you, don’t wear one. If carving a pumpkin is demonic to you, don’t do it. If you don’t want to celebrate, don’t. But don’t attempt to impose your beliefs on others. Some of us enjoy celebrating the seasons and the traditions of our ancestors who lived in an agricultural society and understood nature much better than the current population who can go to a grocery store and doesn’t depend on the the harvest from a single village. And doesn’t worry about having enough wood for heat and light or having enough meat or grains from a single source like our ancestors did. And please keep in mind that the pagans/heathens/witches were not demonic. They were wise in the ways of midwifery and healing as well as knowledgeable in herbal remedies. And if they were so “satanic” for lack of a better word, then why did the religions that came after, take so much of their traditional practices (ie Easter Bunny, Christmas Tree, Holly, presents, etc). The pagan/heathen/wicca faiths are nature based. They celebrate the changing of the seasons, the planting and reaping of the crops, When the animals are birthing and when they’re hibernating, etc. They celebrate longest and shortest days of the year and when the day and night share equal time. And that’s about the extent of the matter. And funny enough, most don’t even believe in a devil. So worshipping an evil deity is redundant if you don’t believe in it to begin with. All the disinformation about these faiths came from power hungry people of other faiths who wanted to basically enslave the population into obedience to their authority and only their authority. They wanted to target people who were different or outliers and women, especially women and men with money and or land. In my opinion (and experience) that is the reason for the nonsense. So I feel that if you do not want to celebrate this particular holiday, then don’t. If you do want to celebrate this holiday, then do. But your faith and your belief is yours to practice or not, so long as it doesn’t impose on anyone else’s faith or belief. Because that is not your right.

Jennie LeDeaux

Pagan celebrations are not evil. Halloween was made up and costumes started as a well to sell merchandise and “confuse” the demons. As a sensitive myself and as I know I’m protected by my creator, I find it odd that so many are so afraid of silky things like Halloween and seek to snatch it from others. If it’s not for you don’t celebrate do not partake. I am not about telling others what they should or shouldn’t celebrate. The evils I see are others trying exert their power over others. Individuals don’t have to square up with any of us. They square up with the maker and that is how I view it. I was instructed not to judge others and I try not to. I have enough worries of my own without having to carry others.

Timothy C Stone

Halloween is my favorite holiday. It is for fun. It is especially fun for kids. I don't know anyone that worships demons. And let's face it Christianity was created around human sacrifice. Remember most Christmas symbols come from Pagan beliefs. There are no evil spirits inhabiting my Halloween decorations.

Richard Veerman

All of this nonsense about, what has basically become a children’s dress up and candy day really has convinced me again of the insanity about organized religion. We need to approach life with values that come from the heart and our common sense, relax and allow folks to believe what they were indoctrinated to believe. And by the way, most religious ceremonies and celebrations are derived from Paganism. Aren’t there more important issues to address in this world than whether Halloween is a threat to our respective belief systems. Relax people and drop the hysteria.

William I. Hegeman

For conservative movements fear is a big selling point. Evening before "All Saints day, the first, the second All Believers day, the third all souls day"
Pumpkins are what we in the US had. In Europe and England it was Turnips. The belief that souls wandered the world for a while before being taken to the everafter place, heaven or hell. Remembering relatives, the turnip lights were to scare away the bad, and encourage good relatives to come home for a bit. The dressing up and confusing and scaring away the bad spirits, came and went, and changed here with the capitalistic view of making money on the holiday.

This week, after the harvest, before the hard set weather sets in for winter was a good time to trade food stuffs, to make it through the winter. Looking into the bleak dark side of the year is where this idea got on in the Pagan calendar.

Demons, or demonic no. It is convenient to call it demonic for control and identity politics of some sects of conservative faiths.

Turnips or pumpkins, if they attracted negativity, it stayed outside and rotted away. Focusing on the three holy holidays after the evening, scaring away the evil, to focus on faith and inward reflection until Yule or Christmas of the hope of the Sun or the Son of God, then on to Imbolc. Focusing on readying ourselves for the work the coming year.

End of Harvest, festivals, community, bazaars, food and good trade, and services for things needed to survive the winter, make it a long holiday. Fun, before the bleak. Festival before Lent. Build community or maintain or renew relationships for winter where travel and community events would be taking your life into your hands and certain jeopardy.

Demonic, When people focus on that, especially those who have absolutely no idea what a demon is and what is demonic, it is a matter of control of others. If people need that type of isolation and abuse, so be it. But that identity politics to demonize everyone else, is part of the issue also. So Enjoy the holiday and stand against that abuse, resolutely defend your ownself, and your own relationship with the divine. Life is dark and bleak enough as it is, have fun when you can. Believe me, it won't own you. The day in and day out of being abused by the taskmasters of culture and era is bad enough as it is. We need to see each other as neighbors and build community instead of others and isolate ourselves which is inhumane.

Bridget Kielas-Fecyk

You know, the way some individuals scream about pagans and Samhain reminds me of the old "Satanic Panic" in the 1980's. I was just a young kid back then. One of my Survivalist instructors, a good friend of my father's, was Pagan. He taught us, not only the practical side of things when it came to surviving in nature, i.e. building shelters, making, and more importantly controlling, a good campfire, how to identify which plants and mushrooms are safe vs which are NOT, etc.

But he also taught my sisters and I things like respecting nature, accepting there's a natural balance there. Honoring the animals we killed for our food and respecting that it WAS a living creature we killed so we could eat. As well as respecting the fact the plants are also alive until we gather and use them. Those lessons helped me become the person I am now.

P. Keith Benefiel

Boo!

Edwin Wilfred Mckinney

after the flood rebirth of earth? how did we rebegin what Yeshua destroyed?

This is minister Edwin POINT OF VIEW. However, i am trapped what is the real reason that we are having this discussion if it is right or wrong

Rev Samantha Counihan

first off halloween has nothing to do with "demons" and "satan" both are christians beliefs not a Pagans, and halloween is a Pagan Sabbat to honor our Ancestors, which was stolen from Pagans to create a monetize holiday called halloween, abd its pretty offensive to force a christian idea that Samhain is evil when its not evil

Lynnea Urania Kaylor

The original question, "Is Halloween a demonic trick, or a harmless treat?" is itself a false dichotomy. Samhain is not the eve of All Saints Day and Halloween is not the observance beginning the Celtic year. Halloween can become demonic when people obsess over demonic associations, whether by practicing them or by being afraid of them. Unfortunately, professed Christians do a lot to spread that kind of fear when they in fact have nothing to fear, even to the point of treating a "devil" as if acting as a competing god instead of a fallen angel, or at least as if he was in cahoots with a "God" who's more eager to send people to a default hell then to heavenly bliss.. I'm not kidding. I've met a lot of people who actually believe this kind of nonsense that's such a slap in the face of the Divine. There's more demonic trickery to this kind of mindset than sending kids out to round up candy. Is it evil to contemplate those who have passed or even the issues surrounding death? Not at all. In fact, they give rise to necessary considerations to put one's affairs in order. On the other hand, I don't count Halloween as a harmless treat either because of what people have obsessively made the holiday, God, and evil to be. I, for one, do not give out Halloween candy. For me, Samhain observance is a time of warmth and remembrance manifest in a rite closed to others because of the inane and juvenile intrigues that lead to desecration. I vote that it is neither trick nor treat, but a time of connection and remembrance..

Religion as a Weapon is Wrong

In capitalism, Halloween is the same as Christmas, Easter, the 4th of July and Thanksgiving. It's a push to convince you to buy stuff. You can buy it or not buy it. You can participate or not participate. In addition to holidays becoming nothing more than a buying spree, arguing about them is nothing but a diversion for the masses to name call each other and be distracted. There is always a distraction to keep us from what really matters. Humans are so easy to lead around by the nose. Believe what you want, do what you want, and cause no harm. There. Fixed it for you.

Dorothy Hawkins

Every Christian tradition can be traced back to roots in pagan beliefs. So, observing the seasons with festivals should somehow be wrong? Updating outdated belief systems would seem to be more fitting - after all, the religions co-opted earlier beliefs and mixed in their own "flavor" of theology & dogma to gain converts...It's 2025, people! Halloween is a fun holiday for kids and adults alike. Religions are focused on the "after-life" (meaning non-corporeal entities) - why are ghosts reckoned so differently when it comes to Halloween? Kinda goes hand-in-hand with thoughts of the "after-life", don't you think so?

Lorraine Kathleen Chapdelaine Dite La Riviere

Samhain was a celebration of the end of the harvest land the beginning of the darker half of the year. The veil is thinned and loved ones and ancestors who had passed could come visit their loved ones and be celebrated. Yes, it was thought that other non-friendly spirits would come through as well, so the Celts carved scary faces in turnips to scare them off, and some changed their looks so they wouldn't be recognized by the "bad guys." It was never considered evil by people. I am Scottish/Irish, and very proud of my Celtic heritage.

Jamie Frost

I think Christians/Catholics/ect need to all holidays alone after their history of murdering anyone different than them...

Id rather believe in a holiday that celebrates the obvious changing of seasons.... Than an unseen deity that MIGHT help you if you beg hard enough...

Jamie Frost

I think Christians/Catholics need to leave other religious holidays alone after their history of murdering people for their differences..

Shawn David Spencer

On this subject I've actually learned quite a bit in my studies towards becoming an exorcist and I actually can share some of this knowledge with you because it's become kind of a concern. This holiday to the church in ancient times was far from demonic or evil in its nature but due to religious dogmatic beliefs a lot of propaganda was spread about it. Now there are a few different beliefs that involve this time of year. In Europe, where the pagan belief began, this time of year was a time not of celebration but I a recounting of ancient enemies, legends of those who became so powerful and so threatening, that a union between cultures occurred, enemies would agree to truces of peace, in order to join sides to overcome these ancient enemies of legend. This time of year was a time they set aside to sit down and teach the new generation of the old legends and remember what happened and those that were trapped or cast into bottomless pits for example, they would go to check and make sure that enemy was still imprisoned. So you see this time of year was not for celebration but a recounting of dangers so that the next generation would not forget in case they ever came back for revenege. But as the records seem to show, that tradition became exploited by tyrants seeking to weaken the stability of other countries and so the pagan propaganda began to spread about it until people forgot except those branded as evil and then forgotten completely almost 😉almost. The other more popular traditional belief is centered around an old local legend during the time of the pilgrim's and early colonists, sensationalized as the legend behind Sleepy Hollow and the unmarked gravestone that inspired Hans Christiansen to write the infamous story and its character, the headless horseman. The legend of this characters true identity is filled with the horrific but dramatic events. So as I've become known to be as a storyteller, let me tell you of the legend of the headless horseman. It was September 24th, in the year of our Lord 1684. A man had come from Europe, a member of the corrupted Templar knights and a symbol of everything the pilgrim's and colonists came to the Americas seeking to escape. Not much was known about him officially when he arrived, only that he was sent to collect items stolen from the crown and that his official business title would be that of a magistrate concerning conviction against the individuals found in possession of the items and their execution. So began the witch trials and burnings in the colonial Americas during that time. Whether he was tied to the Salem trials is not sure but he was connected to many others all along the 13 colonial territories. He recovered some of the items he was looking for, stolen documents that he would proclaim was evidence of them being in league with the devil and he and his men would burn the Innocent at the stake until the one hiding the item would reveal themselves or be given up by the people. Then one day he was betrayed by the very order that sent him and he was charged not for being in league with the devil but for being the devil himself and he and his men were burned at the stake as well . The legends say that his last words were, "I will return" as the flames overtook him. It sounds as if this were the end but no it wasn't, otherwise I wouldn't be a spooky story. Legends say that they buried him in a Blackstone unmarked grave outside of the town of sleepy hollow but then people began dying unnaturally around town. One family was burned alive trapped in a barn, another man walked into the dense fog in the middle of town and when the fog cleared his mangled body was there in the town square with the sheer look of terror on his face and body twisted into unnatural positions. There were other deaths that drew the interests of the writer Hans Christiansen and so the story of sleepy hollow was written but in the shadows a religious belief began to form focused around the legends and the death of the man that night that became the center of the witches black mass celebrated on that same night of his death so in the silence of the forests the witches would gather to celebrate the death and resurrection of the supernatural myth that became known as more than just the headless horseman in the American colonies and as the red coats grew in number in the colonies so did the resistance against them grow in secret. That is the story I've learned so far. There is more but every good storyteller never tells the whole story at once, otherwise they wouldn't ask us to come back and finish the story

Rev. Miche'al Yosef Dixon

As with every other discussion on anything "Christian" "Muslim" and "Jewish" this whole discussion proves they don't even read the scriptures that they say their side comes from. As a former High Priest of Anton Levay's "Church of Satan" and a genetic Jew trying to relearn my heritage. The first comment in this discussion was with a quote from the hypocrite to support that Halloween is "Satanic". Jews and Arabians help me out here; "Satan" is a Hebrew/Arabic word translated to English "Enemy" and our Father in Heaven calls Helel the fallen angel this "name"; "Devil" is Greek For "Lier". No god wants their worshipers to call them this. That said, on the Halloween/Samhan wich today is the worship of Candy and money mostly money. If you're truly interested in the "Holy Day" this devolved from read the scriptures it's one of four Holy Sabbaths we Hebrews/Jews were commanded to observation. In fact every culture on the planet observation of "The Harvest Festival" to their deity whomever their name in their language may be. It's Romanized Judeo-Christian arrogance that says "only our God with our name (actually only a title) is the only one". Our Father name is YHWH, Romanized "Jehovah". Anyhow, The Holy Day begins on the Hebrew calendar in month of C'h'e's'v'a'n our next month starting on the New Moon. Not October 31, which the "Witching Hour" is around 2-4 am in the morning on November 1st on our Gregorian Calendar. Catholics "All Saints Day" not anything to do with Pagans but worship of humans that humans made gods. "Thou shalt not bow before any other god but Me, for I am a jealous God and the sin of the father shall be visited upon the child unto the 3rd generation." Leviticus version of Second Commandment. Read your Basic Instructions Before Life Everlasting or stop being a hypocrite.

Walter Abington

Absolutely foolish to believe it’s anything but nonsense. Halloween is a fun time for children. Do rabbits terrify you because of Easter? Or are you horrified over Santa clause and elves at Christmas time? If so, you’ve allowed yourself to be manipulated by religion. Weak minded people want control over others so they don’t have to take a critical look at their beiefs. Quit insisting others have to live like you do.

Rev. Donut

BOO!

Surprisingly, even the up tight, straight and narrow, bible beating, Southern Baptist church I was raised in had a Halloween Party in the basement every year while I was young.

Matthew Mastrogiovanni

If kids can have active shooter drills, then they can have Halloween.

Tom Herman

Wasn't this Church and Ministry established to provide a forum for ALL (emphasis added) faiths and beliefs? I think it important to observe tolerance for someone else. Halloween is just about the most lighthearted holiday and children have opportunities to get free candy. Of course it has its roots in ancient (again, emphasis added) traditions that have long ago ceased to be as society evolved. If you don't wish to observe it then don't. I find it humorous that so many support individual rights while at the same time cherry picking what rights you can have. There's a lot of hypocrisy in religious movements. Let's remind ourselves of the reasons we joined here in the first place. Tolerance of others has meaning.

Lady Mutt Cat

Pagan is spelled with a capital P, just like Christian is spelled with a capital C.

Ronaldo

The heart is the only thing that really matters in any holiday. Some feel that Halloween is just a time to decorate as they witness the upcoming Fall. Some feel that Christmas is entirely a secular capitalist-centric holiday designed for buying and selling. Some feel that all the holidays were made up by Hallmark so people buy and give more cards. While some truly believe that the walls between the Fair and Grim worlds weaken on Halloween, I see it as nothing more than entertainment. I see Christmas as a celebration of the reason for my salvation, as I do Easter. Others do not. Evil is as evil is assigned. Ask any person who commits acts many call evil, and they will tell you that they are not the villain in their story. Many have been accused of evil when their actions are nothing of the sort. Some accusers go so far as believing that just voting for or against a particular candidate for office is evil, while others see it as politics.

Ari Joseph Bertine

The annual Halloween-bashing is so routine that it's boring, compared to surprise contenders like the Labubu freak-out. Who could've anticipated that? The Halloween thing is just kind of silly. I mean even if it was more than a commercial holiday that centers around candy and parties, even if we went back to its roots it would be about frightening evil away, mocking evil to weaken its power and chase it off to protect the village, not celebrating it. That disconnect makes me think that the real purpose of trying to discourage Halloween is just to exert authority and find something to be up in arms about, rather than any actual useful or Jesus-inspired intent.

Reverend Kate

The holiday "Halloween" is a children's festival, based on the following CHRISTIAN holy day of All Saint's Day on November 1st. Of course, since it's spooky and full of ghosts/witches/goblins/etc, a certain demographic is going to go to extremes and make it as 'evil' as possible. Similar to the so-called Church of Satan - basically taking Christian tenants and turning them on their heads to be extra shocking and oppositional. It's a kind of adolescent thinking that some people never move past.

Similar to other cultural holidays that got overlaid with Christian holidays, Halloween coincides with Samhain, the closing of the year on the Wheel of the Year. It is a very sacred day of remembrance, acknowledgement, and closure. And yes, there is a very strong sense of the thinning of the 'veil' between the world of the living and the world of the dead and non-human. It is not scary in and of itself. In fact, it can be very powerful and comforting. But, as with many other 'overlain' or 'borrowed' holidays, Christianity has either trivialized (kids dressed up as funny/scary things! Boat loads of candy!) or scary/evil/wicked things (the thinning of the veil and the visitation of ancestors becomes evil things coming out of 'Hell' to terrify people). The idea of there being a very real and present 'non living' population of Earth that we can see more clearly around Samhain is in direct conflict with the dogma of the early Church, which has a whole lot of social capital riding on the idea that we are born, suffer, and if we believe strongly enough and act correctly, we die and go to heaven, and that's that. Anything that varies from that idea is a danger to church control. Ergo...anything that smacks of 'heathen theology' is either trivialized or made 'evil'.

Halloween is harmless. Samhain is sacred. Is there evil in the world? Oh yes. And in my opinion, it has seized the highest levels of the land, and is lumbering forward like a juggernaut. But Halloween? Not evil.

Brien

Hmm, I'm a little confused here... Christianity has taken MOST of its' fictional beliefs from....pagan beliefs. It has been dressed up to fit in with the fictional god story. To me, it's just one fictional belief taking over another fictional belief, then crying foul when they lose control over it to capitalism...I love this. It's nice to see something ridiculous rather than the pesky real world events that are happening ✌️

Kevin Patrick Dabbs

But how many of these"Christians" let their kids go trick or treating, and dress up in costumes? And Halloween used to be a religious holiday, and every holiday began as a pagan holiday, some of these "Christians" need to grow up

Danielle Elizabeth Ostach

While it is related to the pagan holiday of Samhain which is the day of the dead to pay respect to those that come before and actually start of the pagan year, it is also very much a christian holiday as well and name related to that.

It is really "All Hallows Eve" the eve before Hallows Day which is the day that the Catholic church honors the saints. Halloween is evolved name of that. True, there is superstition about restless dead bothering those that don't pay proper respect to the dead "The tricks from the disrespected ancestors" for not giving them proper respect "Treats". It all depends on if you believe in ghosts or not.

Either way, the holiday actually has nothing to do with religion (unless catholic) and more folks superstitions that evolved into fun.

Roy S. Thorpe

The thumpers are out in full force quoting chapter and verse! Fear always comes from ignorance! Make a lot of noise maybe it will go away! Oh, ye of little true faith! Go and have fun sayeth the Man in Charge!

Warren Calvin Wall

The costumes and scary decorations are intended to keep away "evil spirits", not to worship or honor them. The original jack-o-lantern was originally carved from turnips rather than pumpkins. Christians celebrate pagan celebrations all the time. Eostera is celebrated as Easter and the resurrection. Saturnalia is celebrated as Christmas and the birth. Churches and cathedrals are built on pagan sacred spaces. Christians celebrate paganism constantly. How many "saints" are actually canonized pagan gods? Religious nonsense tries to ruin everything.

Steven Ferrell

In its original incarnation it was evil. However just as many things that also started as good, it has become so commercialized that who knows what it is anymore.

Rev “D”

Those poor christians whining about a merriment holiday no one is forcing them to celebrate. Since there is such deep concern for Halloween’s Pagan roots, Yule must really be upsetting! After all that is also a Pagan holiday time commandeered by christians to better force the people to accept Christianity. The only people forced to accept anything are non-Christians. We are to listen to their spewed hatred and dislike for anything Christians themselves can’t agree on whether or not to accept, all the while as they misquote and misunderstand their hundreds of revisions good book. A bountiful harvest and blessed Samhain to all.

Robin Anne Hannon

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To everyone else...do what you feel is right. Celebrate, don't celebrate, it's a personal decision.

Robert James Uhl

Lighten up people and let kids be kids and enjoy a fun holiday.Stop putting everything under a microscope.Do you really thing God cares about Halloween. He wants us to love each other and do good deeds Spooky Halloween means nothing it’s a boo and a laugh and trick or treat

Joseph Grieco

America has a major problem with folks who have very little training in the English Language, despite their insistence that we are an "English Only" Country. Halloween is a contraction of All Hallows Evening. It's the night before the Christian observation called "All Saints Day". That was the day the Catholic Church set aside to honor all those Saints who did not have unique feast or celebration days. That's it! No more, no less. Just because the Church, in their syncretistic wisdom decided to parallel it with the old Celtic feast of Samhain (and it's pronounced Soween, or Sowan - gotta love Gaelic) where the doors between this world and "the other world" are opened, was an effort to make Christianity more palatable to the Northern Europeans. Samhain is also the end of the harvest season (with Lammas, i.e. Loaf Mass being the beginning of it) in the harsher northern European climates. Grains, fruits and vegetables are harvested and stored for the winter. Lanterns were carved out of turnips (a difficult process at best), so folks would celebrate their harvest and prepare for the long winter. The harvest festival aspect continued for centuries, often in the form of county fairs, where folks would display what they grew and sell their surplus to others. The Trick-or-Treat aspect of Halloween, as we know it, started in Canada in the 1920s. Yep. That most ubiquitous aspect of kids dressing up as ghosts (much to the ruination of many a mother's bed linens), goblins, etc. is a Canadian import, just like Hockey, Lacrosse, most police procedural shows set in NY and Seattle, Celine Dion and Crown Royal. Sadly, I live on a street that has very few children, and way too much traffic - due to two industrial parks right up the road from us - so we never get the vicarious thrill of seeing little kids having fun celebrating the season at our house.

Rev Ned

A lot of “Christians” don’t do ANYTHING that Jesus told them to do. It’s too “woke” for them. Blessed be!

David Buck

Most Christian holidays are re-branded pagan festivals. Easter, Christmas and All Hallows Eve/All Saints Day (to name but a few) are Christian festivals which were scheduled to coincide with existing Celtic or Roman pagan festivals. Letting them continue to celebrate on or about the same time of year they were used to celebrating made it made it easier to woo the pagans over to the new Christian religion. The early Christian church in Rome was very pragmatic about certain things. We celebrate Christmas and Easter on days specified by the ancient Church of Rome. Days which, by the way, did not necessarily jive with the dates when the events actually occurred. In any event, All Hallows Eve is a Christian festival, duly permitted by the ancient Church of Rome, so it is OK to celebrate it.

Dr. Zerpersande, NSC

Some of these clips are sickening. Of course that’s the way they get new recruits…get ‘em young and impressionable. Laws were made to prevent tobacco companies from doing it.

Dr. Zerpersande, NSC

In the third grade I had a teacher that was a devil worshipper. This was in the early 60s and it was okay for her to use the occult as a facilitation method. She taught us how to make a pumpkin that would summon a single-use, task specific demon. It would go out, find a kid that had just started puberty and turn that kid gay or trans. Which one was a coin toss.

Patricia Ann Gross

As one who subscribes to the "Communion of Saints," meaning the saints who have gone before us look out for us and pray for us in their heavenly realm, I have always known Halloween as "All Hallow's Eve," which is the evening before All Saint's (Hallows) Day, which in some traditions, especially Catholicism, a holy day of obligation (meaning going to mass is required). It was always fun, and I always had a sugar rush and upset stomach from all the sweets the next day, but it didn't turn me into anything resembling demonic. In college I went to a costume party, and aside from a few too many libations and a hangover the next morning, nothing was too far out of the ordinary. These are the same people that are trying to tell you that all gay and trans people are trying to recruit and groom your children.

James Riggle-Johnson

I don’t see the problem. Evil spirits do not possess decorations or cheap costumes that you buy in a store. Witches can cast a spell any day of the year. I just hope they don’t outlaw Halloween.

Reverend Paula Copp

This debate comes up every year… sigh. I wonder if the christians will ever learn…

ServantOfJudgement

I was a zombie for a Halloween party where I gave hay rides with my tractor to the kids. I'm still a surprisingly fast runner and the kids wanted to be chased by a zombie. They weren't my kids so I couldn't bite them when I caught them. Instead I'd throw their shoes in the cornfield and run to the next kid. Once they saw I was coming for their shoes and threw them as far as I could, they had a real fear of getting caught. Still not fast enough though. No parent complaints to my surprise and all shoes were eventually found by the zombie victims.

It's a lot of fun to miss out on. If a person fears this will shake their faith then don't do it. If you're confident in your faith then it's no big deal. Have fun!

Douglas Robert Spindler

Christian women are the ones who just LOVE Halloween. They get to wear skimpy clothing and makeup wouldn't otherwise wear. This is why Halloween has become so popular.

Rev. BH

A. What kids don't like dressing up spooky, getting free candy, and staying out late?

B. What kids prefer to miss the fun, stay in the house and pray?

pick one.

Brother Peter

With all the REAL things in this world to worry about, it's a shame some people have this to cry and moan about. What's next, banning the Easter Bunny?

Lionheart

Well, there are some pretty scary horrific things mentioned in the Bible, so I guess, in many respects, they basically go hand-in-glove with one another. Halloween 👻 hands out candy and threats of tricks if you don’t comply with supplying treats. Christianity offers their own form of treats, but threats of burning in Hell for eternity if you don’t comply, or make the grade. That’s pretty scary. I’m thinking that Halloween is the better option of the two. At least it’s only once a year, whereas the Christianity scary thing is like almost every day, or at least weekly, and they will tell you it’s real. 🤭

🦁❤️

Najah P Tamargo

Najah Tamargo-USA

Granted, Halloween has changed over the decades. But it is still considered ALL HALLOWS EVE, so loosen up and have some fun with the kids!!!

Ty Ford

Are you kidding me? X submissions HERE? That's a profanity in itself.