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Do You Celebrate Halloween?

Do You Celebrate Halloween?

  • Yes

    Votes: 6 31.6%

  • No

    Votes: 13 68.4%
  • Total voters
    19
l'Chante said:
Ah, so do we. I recently did a two day course on business writing, and the facilitator constantly referred to ‘English’ and ‘American’. I thought it was hilarious.
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:crazy Try learning your vernacular in England, and then moving to the US... SO CONFUSING! :rolleyes2
 
 
 
jasoncran said:
so true. whats up with the the donkey? i may have to post the one i owned in afghanistan. :)
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I didn't really like the shield. The donkey is just a picture I found when I searched for funny pictures I could use.
 
Theofilus said:
I didn't really like the shield. The donkey is just a picture I found when I searched for funny pictures I could use.
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LOL! I love it. Great donkey!

Halloween? I don't celebrate it only because, sadly, where I live there are no kids and none come around. I loved it as a kid and even as a Christian teen. There was no way me or any of my friends that I knew of ever took it seriously as worshiping Satan, demons, or anything like that. We were just having good clean fun is all. And no, we didn't pull any dirty tricks on anyone, we did have Christian values after all!

But taking it seriously? No I wouldn't do that. Like others said, it's all about the candy!

I celebrate Christmas with a tree and Santa Clause as well, but I don't take them seriously or believe in them either. It's just good fun.

I know one Christian, a pastor, who is strict about not celebrating any of these things, and can back it up with scripture (albeit a lot of scripture taken out of context and massaged to fit his particular view). He also won't call anyone a friend that doesn't agree with his particular version of Christianity. He gets really offended at even the slightest hint that he may be a little legalistic. And his church? Well, many times his services are attended by he and his wife only. I don't think it's really a good thing to become so heavenly minded that you are no earthly good!
 
Igor said:
LOL! I love it. Great donkey!

Halloween? I don't celebrate it only because, sadly, where I live there are no kids and none come around. I loved it as a kid and even as a Christian teen. There was no way me or any of my friends that I knew of ever took it seriously as worshiping Satan, demons, or anything like that. We were just having good clean fun is all. And no, we didn't pull any dirty tricks on anyone, we did have Christian values after all!

But taking it seriously? No I wouldn't do that. Like others said, it's all about the candy!

I celebrate Christmas with a tree and Santa Clause as well, but I don't take them seriously or believe in them either. It's just good fun.

I know one Christian, a pastor, who is strict about not celebrating any of these things, and can back it up with scripture (albeit a lot of scripture taken out of context and massaged to fit his particular view). He also won't call anyone a friend that doesn't agree with his particular version of Christianity. He gets really offended at even the slightest hint that he may be a little legalistic. And his church? Well, many times his services are attended by he and his wife only. I don't think it's really a good thing to become so heavenly minded that you are no earthly good!
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i dont call it sinful to celebrate the christmas and or easter eggs and halloween thing just not a good idea.some can some cant.on christmas i can take or leave it( i was a jw), nope for me on halloween.

i'm half irish and have a leaning to magical things as i got into some of that through the mystical influence martial arts i was into.
 
Gendou Ikari said:
Not really. Though, I kind of want to dress us as V from V for Vendetta, except that I do not want to spend the money to buy a proper costume. I figure it is weird on any other day to walk around like that.
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Dress like that in college towns. I live very close to a University and nothing surprises me anymore :lol
 
Yep, we celebrate it. 'Smatter of fact, I'm one of the people who help decorate the community hall. Living out in the country the way we do, it takes too long for the folks to drive their kids to all the houses in the boonies. So, we decorate the Community Hall in town, and all who want to can take their candy there for the Trick-or-treaters. We have black curtains and put up a maze with fun/spooky stuff in it. At the end of the maze there is some kind of final something. One year, it was my daughter dressed up as a dead Egyptian queen. Think Nefertiti meets Vampira. She laid there on her slab (made of card-board) and when the kids whet by she sat up and said "boo". Everyone had a lot of fun. In our town, Halloween is definitely about dressing up and getting, not bags, but whole pillowcases filled with candy.

For those who cannot separate the pagan from the holiday (and Andrew is right, it started out as a church holiday) then they shouldn't participate. But, for those who can and do, well y'all know me by now, I'm pretty big into Christian liberty. Halloween and Christmas go back, but the way they are celebrated here in American doesn't pose a conflict to my Christian faith at all. I do agree that if one has a past influence of occultism, it might pose a problem. But, like Chyenne, I've found that the few folks I know who are into Wicca or that type of thing are as disgusted at the Trick-or-treat caricatures as some Christians are at Santa Claus.
 
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