Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Why we don't celebrate Halloween

So, no one really asked me my opinion on this. But that's the great thing about blogs...you can say what you want to. At least in this country. And every year at this time it seems I have to explain to a great number of people why i'm not spending a bunch of money on costumes for my two children and parading them around neighborhoods to beg for candy from people that we otherwise don't know or talk to.  So let me 'splain' in to you.
We simply don't believe in it!...  Did ya get that?!  We don't believe in Halloween and what it represents.  I would no more let my kids participate in Halloween than I would let them march in a gay pride parade.  People say, "Oh well its just harmless fun".  That may be true and I even did it a few times myself when I was a kid.  But I didn't understand back then what I understand now.  Ever noticed that all of the things that make Halloween have to do with the dead and evil?  Now, we are Christians who try to live out what we believe and what the Bible tells us. And if you go looking for God's direction about such things it's pretty easy to come to the conclusion that this isn't really a good thing.  But i'll leave it up to everyone else to decide what is best for their family.  "As for me and my house"....you know the rest.

Also, for those who think its too traumatic on the kiddos to not participate I can only tell you it hasn't been that way for us. Sure at first it was a little tough when they were too young to understand. We have a child with special needs who is always extremely concerned with fairness.  And she now get's why we don't participate and she's cool with that, because she's read the Bible and we've been very upfront with her about our stance on the whole thing.  Her big problem is that the other kids get to stay up later than her and "that's not fair".  LOL   Things could be a lot worse.

Anyway, enough ranting.  I didn't want to write a big apologetics lesson on why Christian's shouldn't celebrate Halloween.  That's been done and frankly it's been done a lot better than I could do it.  If you're interested in it just Google "Christian response to Halloween".  I'm not trying to tell anyone else how they should live.  But please don't look at me like that when I tell you we don't celebrate Halloween. 'Cause I might just tell you why I think you should know better.