What are your thoughts on celebrating Halloween ( or the devil's birthday as folks at my church call it.)?
Isn't it sort of dangerous for children to be celebrating it?
It just seems like sort of a useless holiday IMO. It promotes gluttony and being a burden upon other people ( walking up like a homeless begger to people's homes demanding candy?! Really?)
If that wasn't bad enough the holiday also encourages "tricks" such as tee-peeing peoples homes, lighting bags of dog shit on people steps and egging houses.
It also encourages youngsters to dress up like demons and viscious monsters. Why would anyone encourage that?
If you look at the history though, it makes sense that Halloween is such an awful holiday. Of all the main American holidays (Christmas, Valentines day, Christmas, Easter) Halloween is the only one with no Christian basis. BTW Thanksgiving does have a Christian basis, because it involved Christians giving thanks to the lord for the food they received from the natives.
Helloween on the other hand is purely a pagan holiday from before Jesus. It was invented by dumb savages who mostly spoke in babble rather than an intelligent language. It involved worshipping demons and shaking down people for treats. Samhain I believe it was called.
It really shows what a difference Christianity makes right?
Isn't it sort of dangerous for children to be celebrating it?
It just seems like sort of a useless holiday IMO. It promotes gluttony and being a burden upon other people ( walking up like a homeless begger to people's homes demanding candy?! Really?)
If that wasn't bad enough the holiday also encourages "tricks" such as tee-peeing peoples homes, lighting bags of dog shit on people steps and egging houses.
It also encourages youngsters to dress up like demons and viscious monsters. Why would anyone encourage that?
If you look at the history though, it makes sense that Halloween is such an awful holiday. Of all the main American holidays (Christmas, Valentines day, Christmas, Easter) Halloween is the only one with no Christian basis. BTW Thanksgiving does have a Christian basis, because it involved Christians giving thanks to the lord for the food they received from the natives.
Helloween on the other hand is purely a pagan holiday from before Jesus. It was invented by dumb savages who mostly spoke in babble rather than an intelligent language. It involved worshipping demons and shaking down people for treats. Samhain I believe it was called.
It really shows what a difference Christianity makes right?
