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Love this blog. Thanks for the laughs!

Very amusing blog. I would suggest making your navigation easier…much like “stuff white people like” where there’s a full list. : )

I just endure late October and rejoice when it’s over. Seriously – can you imagine anything more evil than death, bloody corpses, darkness and horror? Yeah – I’m right there with the Halloween haters. And proud of it.

I don’t think Sir Mix Alot is available. He’s still producing an album for that girl from the “Real World” (if you get that reference, it confirms to me that you are a dork and really do all of the dorky things you write about like listening to Delilah). Maybe you could get Father MC to do your anti-halloween show.

Great stuff.

-Brad

this is so true…and it pisses me off. guess what? I love Jesus AND I love halloween!

yes, i hate witches and ghosts

BUT NEVER ZOMBIES!!!!

when there no more room in hell the dead will roam the earth

if thats not a good enough motivator for envangelism i dont know what is

Hallelujah Night! Holla! I grew up not being allowed to celebrate Halloween and was all shocked when I started going to a church in junior high that generally did. We used to have Hallelujah Night on Halloween and dress up as Bible characters. I have two sisters and one year my older sister and I went as the two Marys. My younger sister was a squirrel. She argued that there must’ve been squirrels in Bible times.

In lieu of Sir-Mix-a-Lot (who I actually know; he goes to a friend’s church in Seattle, word up) talking about how baby got back, as this IS a “Christian” alternative event, you can always try go get this guy.

At my Christian elementary school, we celebrated “Reformation Day,” because October 31st is the day that Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the Church at Wittenberg. We did this in spite of the fact that we had two or three Catholic families who sent their kids there. We even had a carnival game called “Pop the Pope” based on the old shave-a-balloon game. As a Catholic now, I proudly spend the evening watching Vincent Price movies and frightening trick-or-treaters.

I hate Halloween hating. Christians don’t take part in it because of its pagan origins. Hello! Pretty much everything has pagan origins! Christmas trees, the days we celebrate Christmas and Easter, giving gifts at Christmas, Easter lilies, wedding rings, wedding veils, birthday celebrations, etc., etc.! Even our calendar and alphabet were developed in pagan societies, and thus have pagan origins. If you’re going to be anti-one, you need to be anti-all. This is one of my biggest Christian pet peeves.

hey kimana83
be careful what you wish for. one of the churches my parents went to when I was young DID prohibit celebration of all those holidays because of their pagan roots. No Christmas trees or gifts, no easter eggs, no wedding rings.

Ever since I was little, I’ve always loved Hollywood style makeup and special effects.

So you’ll find my family on Wednesday nights participating in various ministries, you’ll find us on Sundays teaching Sunday School and playing in the praise band, but during the “Fall Festival” I’m at home wearing a ghillie suit and a ghoulish mask, scaring the bejeezus out of the neighbor kids.

We do hand out tracts with the candy, so as small as that is, I think we’re doing more to reach out to the community than our festival is.

what’s wrong with the great american tradition of playing dress-up and begging for candy? i mean really, parents can make things so-o attractive by forbidding them. my kids always felt a little superior to have creative costumes that weren’t bloof and gore or devil incarnate. get some perspective folks.

I was raised hating Halloween and continued to do so well into my teens.

But then I had a moment of clarity.
I think we make Halloween out to be more demonic than it is. For most kids, it’s dressing up like a pirate/ninja/princess and asking the neighbors for candy. It’s only as evil as you want it to be.

(plus, I watch horror movies on occasion, so who am I to point fingers?)

I always appreciate the biblical costumes that make do with what is available: Ghost becomes Holy Ghost, mummy becomes Lazarus emerging from the grave, zombie becomes a leper maybe.

Yes! I love the churches that hate Halloween SO much that they decide to have kids come to the church dressed up to get candy to NOT celebrate a pagan holiday of having kids dress up and get candy.

I love Halloween. I guess that makes me a horrible person, but I don't care. I love it anyway.

I have been reading dozens of your entries a night and have enjoyed each one. I have not commented yet because I have nothing to add but this one deserves an AMEN!! I was raised in a Christian home that thought Halloween was demonic. One halloween we were allowed to trick or treat because WE BEGGED to and we had to hand out tracks and were not allowed to say trick or treat. It sucked. I love God. I love Halloween. Just as non-Christians celebrate Christmas and change the meaning I celebrate Halloween and re-define the meaning.

I had a moment when my son was 2 and I was walking around with neighbors in COMMUNITY and going door to door trick or treating and just being together. I agree with who said it is what we make of it!!!

Yeah, zombies suck alright. I mean, they are dead people who have risen. Like Jesus.

Seriously, Xians only hate Halloween because it's the one holiday they couldn't pervert with their bible. Hail Satan I'm not a Xian.

There was a comment by a 5 year old in his Sunday School class that went a little something like this, "Halloween is Satan's Birthday."

Gotta love Christian parents. Instead of letting the little angels get all sugared up let's lie to them instead. In the name of piety!

Halloween actually has Christian origins. It's All Hallow's Eve. The dressing up is meant to be a mockery of evil which has been vanquished by Christ.

I really have to comment here. My husband and I don't celelbrate Halloween, BUT we have NEVER told anyone else not to. And yet, whenever someone asks us something like "what are you dressing up as?" or "how are you decorating your apartment?" we politely say that we aren't celebrating and try to leave it at that. We aren't condescending or anything, just stating a fact, and usually with a smile. But no matter what we do, as soon as those words come out of our mouths people are OFFENDED! We have actually had people get nasty to us, just for saying we don't celebrate Halloween. Is that fair? We have never never never said or done anything to try and get anyone else not to celebrate, we just choose not to ourselves. Is that a crime? Is just not celebrating the way everyone else does automatically mean we are judging people? So, can people please stop getting mad at us because we personally don't want to celebrate Halloween? Please, have fun, be safe, eat lots of candy, but don't get mad at us because we don't!

I love Halloween with an embarrassingly strong passion. This probably due to the fact that when I was a kid not only was I not allowed to celebrate Halloween in any way. Beyond that I was not allowed to eat any of my friends' Halloween candy after the fact and when kids rang our bell on Halloween night my parents made me go to the door and tell the children, many of whom were older than me, that we did not celebrate Halloween because we were Christians and that they weren't getting any candy. I was very popular. My biggest act of rebellion in my whole childhood was convincing my mom to let me go to a friends house (who "wasn't trick or treating") on Halloween, where I then dressed up as a witch and went around the neighborhood with a pack of kids trick or treating. I was such a rebel! I still don't think she knows.

Anyways, as a Halloween lover, I had to construct a theology to justify this – "it's just harmless fun" won't cut it. So here goes: It is good to celebrate Halloween in all its ghostly and witchy and zombified glory because we are Christians. When we celebrate Halloween we make fun of death and dark spiritual influences to remind ourselves that as Christians these things have no power over us. Satan has no power over us, the grave will not hold us, ghosts can't frighten us. That's why I embrace the spooky fun, to remind myself that the dark side exists, but as a Christian it cannot touch me and by laughing at it I rob it of its power even further. That, and because I was horribly deprived as a child!

Had to comment on this one because I was the victim of this! My parents were very much against anything that had to do with Halloween, and still are. Unfortunately, they formed this opinion after my older brothers had gone through their trick-or-treating stage and right before mine. I was never allowed to go trick-or-treating. We turned all the lights off in our house on Halloween so that no one would knock on the door. I wasn't allowed to go to any Halloween parties or events. My mom even went so far as to sending notes to school with me telling the teachers not to give me halloween candy, cookies, or coloring pages. I am a freshman in college and my parents still act this way ( minus the teacher note part ha ). This was the first year in my entire life that I was able to dress up for Halloween and participate in trick-or-treating. Before you judge me for trick-or-treating in college, it was a service project in which the girls in my dorm dressed up, decorated our doors, bought candy and hosted trick-or-treating for the children of the college staff. And I thoroughly enjoyed it! I can understand being opposed to Halloween and wanted to keep your children away from the references to evil and witchcraft but it was a direct insult to me when my parents still wouldn't let me go to halloween parties in high school for fear that i was going to decide to be a wicken or something. Geez. I do have some common sense.

OK. So this church here in our town (Central Ohio) has what is called "Hell-escape". It's a haunted house where kids get scared out of their mind, so at the end they can be invited to become a "Christian" to avoid that very scary thing called hell. WOW. In ways I won't go into, and in a rather twisted way…this is very scary! LOL
Great web site, and thanks for the laughs!

its great, finally found it here, good job!!

we didn't have candy, but we had a "holy ghost service" with tons of worship (no laser lights, thank God) and then a campfire and hot dogs and a dj…. so much fun., :]

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I've never understood this one. I've been a Christian for a long time, and I absolutely love halloween. It's my favorite secular holiday. I'm that guy that wishes kids would stop dressing up as cartoon characters and start dressing up as scary monsters again.

I love horror movies, too. I don't understand the squeamishness.

Amen! I've been raised a Christian my whole life, but have been celebrating Halloween all the while too. There used to be someone in our neighborhood that put all these signs up in his yard that said how Halloween was so evil and he and his family would stay locked up in the house looking at everyone through the windows and pointing out all of us "co-conspiring with the devil".

And what most people don't realize is Samhain, the holiday that falls around the same time, is the pagan holiday everyone is thinking of…Halloween, or All Hallows Eve, is of Catholic origin. People dressed as things like witches and vampires to scare off the evil spirits lurking about. That's about as Christian as it gets if you ask me!