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[tikibird]

First off - I know most of you really enjoy this holiday - this is a personal decision for me.

I can never wait until it's over. [img]images/icons/frown.gif[/img] I don't like anything about it, particularly not the witches/ghosts/ghouls etc. stuff. Just something I began to feel strongly about when the kids were younger; I used to get dressed up, decorate the house, the whole nine yards.

So, my question is - anyone else feeling this way this time of year?

[Perky2sol]

Sandy, I am so with you on this. I just try to ignore it, and eventually, it does go away. I do decorate, but it is more of the harvest nature than the Halloween nature.

You are right, of course. It is a totally personal decision.


Gail

[AKLRULZ]

Hi Sandy,

Boy, do I understand what you are going through - 95% of my church feels the same way and we honestly struggle with Halloween to some extent as followers of Christ. It's obviously got some very evil roots, but I guess we justify it (like we do Harry Potter, The Haunted Mansion at Disney, and other things of the occult that are very much sanitized or generally accepted in our society these days) and chalk it up to fantasy. We don't allow the kids to dress up in violent or horror costumes (nor do we), we don't decorate for the holiday other than carving a pumpkin, and we don't attend horror type Halloween activites (haunted houses, etc). I guess I look on it from the days of innocence when we were kids and it was just a creepy fun night of going out with friends, dressing up in a fun costume, and loading up on enough sugar to last until Thanksgiving - my parents did a great job of shielding up from the Satanic side of Halloween and that is what we're trying to do with our kids. I've probably idealized it to the point of it being very much like "It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown" - to me that Peanuts special epitomizes Halloween for me! But it's harder these days since the horror aspect is so prevalent everywhere you go. When we went to Party City to pick up my youngest son's Hulk costume he saw bagged body parts and was horrified that someone would be intersted in that - a bit of a loss of innocence for him surrounding Halloween, but it brought up a good discussion of good versus evil. I personally think as long as you're grounded in the Truth - and you convey that to your children - that there is a place for Christians to participate in (not celebrate in) the fantasy of Halloween.

God Bless and don't feel alone in your thoughts.

[mrsmaup]

Im with you, but my husband(also saved) isnt, so we pass out candy and the kids dress up. Usually we spend Halloween at our Church and have done that for most of my kids lives, but this year we are going to be at the mall of America.

Next year we are going camping!!!

Personal decision here too. Not out to tell anybody else how to live their lives, but dont want them to tell me how to live mine either.

[MegglesMom]

As I was reading your post, I suddenly realized that I agreed with you! I have nothing against the trick or treating or the pumpking carving. But look at what we're celebrating! Some of these decorations that are out now totally shock and disgust me.
Oh to go back to the days of childhood innocence, when the most worrisome thing was whether you got enough baby Milky Way bars! [img]images/icons/frown.gif[/img]

[Dumbo]

When I was young I remember our youth group had a haunted house at the church. It was an old church and just turning off the lights made it scary. I remember we got to feel a carrot and jello. Nothing to bad. Years later we did a haunted house for Cub Scouts also at a church. Nothing to scary there either just what a bunch of 10 year olds would think of.

I have a porcelain pumpkin house and 2 pumpkin candles in the window. I don't think I'm going against my Christian roots. In fact, having trick or treaters was one of my Dad's favorite nights. He loved having children come to the house. That was until one child one year thought he could have all the candy and the mother agreed. Dad led a very Godly life.

Growing up my brother and I never wore anything violent but I don't think things were violent back then.

I really believe that the dark side of Halloween has come out since the Omen movies starting in the late 1970's. Movies have gotten more violent and so has the themeing of Halloween.

Signed,

Longing for the good old days of Halloween.