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5 years ago ::
Oct 24, 2007 - 12:43AM
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When I was a child, I always loved Halloween. I loved the scary things, and dressing up, and trick or treating (what kid doesn't like bags and bags of free candy?!) Now that I am older, however, I don't believe Halloween is as harmless as I once thought. It is still a fun time of year if I choose to celebrate it, but I don't really celebrate it anymore (I won't at all once I move into my own place). When I have children, they will not celebrate it either....
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5 years ago ::
Oct 21, 2007 - 7:09PM
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It' a great fun time for kids and for the young at heart. Of the various pagan holidays we celebrate in our society I would say Halloween is my fave, although summer solstice comes a close second.
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5 years ago ::
Oct 18, 2007 - 3:31PM
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I'm not sure that going to Valentine's Day dances or drinking green beer on St. Paddy's day is explicitly glorifying God either, but neither are they denigrating God.
Same with Halloween. It's 99% harmless.
The Bible tells us not to be fearful. I wish the anti-Halloween crowd would take that to heart. Almost all of what the anti-Halloween crowd thinks they know about Halloween is wrong.
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5 years ago ::
Oct 18, 2007 - 3:17PM
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I agree.
I think the best approach to any of these kinds of practices, is to ask, "Does this in any way glorify God?" If it doesn't then why would we as followers of Christ even want to do it?
Seek to glorify God in all things.
mark
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5 years ago ::
Oct 17, 2007 - 9:38PM
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I do not think it is ok for christians to celebrate halloween. It may seem as a harmless holiday, but it does portray evil in a funny or humurous form.
We are told by the Apostle Paul to Abstain from all appearance of evil.
1 Thessolonians 5: 22
I no longer celebrate halloween and I teach my children the same as it does have ghosts and goblins and it is an old pegan holiday.
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5 years ago ::
Oct 13, 2007 - 10:58PM
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Do you think it's OK for Christian's to celebrate Halloween? How about allowing their children to dress up in costumes and go to Halloween parties? Would it be better for Christian families to find something else to do on that day?
I always remember that for every word typed there is a real person sitting behind the keyboard.
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