October 25th, 2010
Confused on Halloween…
Halloween. I think I can say that I’ve heard it all. I’ve taken many teenagers in costume to nursing homes to do reverse “trick-or-treating” (no tricks), we’ve hosted costume parties (church youth groups), we’ve just simply gone trick-or-treating with our kids, and some years we’ve done nothing. Through it all has been an underlying protest from Christians. I have to admit, I just don’t get it. To be blunt, to me it’s blatant “tradition-hypocrisy”. We lovingly embrace Christmas, which isn’t “Christian” at all! Christians have hi-jacked it and associated the birth of Christ with it. I’m not complaining, I love Christmas, I’m just sayin’…
So, back to Halloween; or more appropriately All Hallows Eve, or as some Christians wrongly protest it to be Satan’ high holy day (or something like that). Let’s say that’s true, that Halloween is Satan’s high holy day…so? So what? Why not take it back? Why do Christians lock themselves in their homes, turn off the lights, and appear to be hiding from Satan? By the way, where do you think the tradition of wearing masks came from (the covering of one’s identity from demons on the eve of the very Christian holiday of All Saints’ Day, November 1st)? So I have a few question for all you Christians that down through the years have hit me with some version of, “We don’t participate in Halloween, because it’s evil.”
1. What about Jesus when He said, “Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world.”? Don’t you believe that?
2. What about David in the Psalms when he said,” Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil.”? Was he wrong?
What do you do with Jesus when He took his disciples to what was believed to be literally the gates of Hell, looked His disciples in the face and said the gates of Hell will NOT prevail…? So, when a church uses Halloween, Harvest Festivals, or whatever to reach a community or age group, as a Christian under the Great Commandment and Great Commission, aren’t we all obligated to do as the Apostle Paul said and win some by all means? Is this a license to sin and act and be stupid? in the words of Paul, “of course not.”
Yes, Halloween has been hi-jacked by some serious nut jobs that have used it for their personal, even evil agendas. But that is true of just about everything. Even Christmas and Easter have it’s wack-o sides. Just wondering…
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