When I first moved the first friends I made were very religious. I'm not but it didn't matter because they weren't trying to force their views on me. When Halloween time came around I was excited to go trick-or-treating but they weren't allowed. Their parents believed that Halloween was evil. One of them asked me to attend a function with her at her church but I declined. I went trick-or-treating with new friends and had a great time and got a lot of candy. Still I wished that they're parents had allowed them to go trick-or-treating too. I didn't understand what the problem with Halloween was. Going to people's houses for candy doesn't seem to be part of a satanic ritual. Maybe in the past Halloween was evil but I don't see how it's in any way evil today.
Well maybe there is one way that it's evil: teenagers. Yes, people in my age group who think Halloween is the time to destroy other's properties. I even heard people in my school talking about using paint guns to mess up other people's houses. Why is this type of destruction cool? Would you like that happening to your house? I just don't understand why they would do things like that.
Another point: Why is Halloween a time for girls to dress up in the skankiest ways and get away with it? (Not saying that I've never done this) But if you're a girl who on any other occasion would never wear something that revealing, why do you use Halloween as an excuse?
Well whatever you believe have a happy halloween and be safe!
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I agree with you on this issue. its seems like people are alwyas trying to take some things that people enjoy doing that isn't moraly wrong then changing it to make it evil and nasty
I agree with you on this issue. its seems like people are alwyas trying to take some things that people enjoy doing that isn't moraly wrong then changing it to make it evil and nasty
My pastor always tells us not to "celebrate" halloween...but I don't see trick-or-treating as "celebrating." He says that people perform satanic rituals on Halloween and worship the dead/devil...but I haven't yet perceived how that applies to children going out and having fun. My mom is very religious, but she always allowed my brother and I to trick-or-treat. I plan on allowing my children to trick-or-treat also, I guess it's a matter of perception.
Micah B.
I'm supposed to know about this kind of stuff for my faith (I'm wiccan), and the whole "Halloween is evil" argument goes back to the early and medieval days of the Church. During the time, many groups around Europe were of different pagan faiths. Of course, the Church would have little power if they could be undermined by other religious groups, so in an attempt to convert the pagans, they told the masses that these groups were worshipping Satan (a Christian concept that was not shared by pagans), made their devil into a perversion of the horned-god (most pagan groups had one, and he usually had some fertility powers), and portrayed their celebrations and rituals as evil. The clearest example of this is Halloween. This used to be a Celtic festival celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of another, and it was a time of remembering ancestors and others who had passed on before, kind of like Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico today. It was a time when the veil between the physical world and the spiritual one was supposed to be especially thin, providing some of the best conditions for worship and ritual. It was actually a holy and festive time for pagan groups.
Over time, Halloween has become a much more secularized and consumer-driven holiday that overall has drifted far from its original purpose. However, the only evil that can ever have been derived from this holiday is, as you've said, teenagers causing mischief and chicks dressing and acting like sluts.
P.S.- I hope I didn't come off as anti-Christian. I'm only expressing an aspect of Church history (and yes, like many other religions, Christianity has had its share of oppressive and misguided history).
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"Our lives begin to end when we become silent about things that matter."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Live one day at a time, emphasizing ethics rather than rules."
-Wayne Dyer
In my English class we've been talking about how Christians in the Old-English through Medieval days would structure their holidays around those that the pagans celebrated in an attempt to popularize the idea of Christianity. That causes great concern for me, as I am a Christian.
Micah B.
Halloween is the time for girls to show the guys who's boss.
No, I just don't get it.