Seeing as the holiday or should I say “unholy” day is coming up I’ve been thinking about Halloween. Halloween is a clear celebration of everything evil. But I’m wondering what Christians thoughts on creating their own holiday on the same day giving it a different name and making it a day about the struggle between good and evil and spiritual warfare where the ultimate victory over evil at the last day is celebrated. So instead of celebrating evil we celebrate the spiritual victory we know will occur at the last day. There are people who hand out tracts to children who come to their door on Halloween which seems like a good idea but I wouldn’t want to imply that I celebrate Halloween but if Christians established their own holiday and made it known in someway when the children came to their door then this problem might be resolved. I guess what I’m suggesting is that Christians replace Halloween with something good or would that be compromising our principals? Is this a good and morally acceptable idea or not?
Idea for a new October 31st Holiday
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Prepare for a debate storm. Mentioning holidays on this site is like lighting a fire in a dry forest.
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I'm curious about what the nature of this alternative holiday to Halloween is, I haven't heard of it. Does it have a name, and what is the difference between it and the Halloween celebration?
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Okay I will answer...
My church does a fall harvest festival where we do an alternative to halloween. We use bright colors instead of the typical black and orange ones. We dress up in good costumes, nothing scary (I was little red riding hood last year and my chihuahua was my wolf!), and we give the neighborhood kids candy. We also worship God and give a lesson on Jesus to the children and adults. This is all done outside and we decorate with harvest decorations like pumpkins, scarecrows with smiley faces etc.
With all that said, I do kinda like halloween and wish I could have gone trick or treating more often as a kid. My mom never let me. I think that's just part of growing up not being able to do it. I did go a few times though when I spent the night with my aunt haha! Now as an adult, I've gone a couple of times, but I dress up in something that's not scary.
But this year I will do the harvest festival at church. If I am in the wrong for secretly liking the holiday, I hope the Lord helps me get over it. I have mixed opinions on it. But now I'm curious, what do other CCers think.
Good thread idea, just don't think the BDF was a good place for it.
My church does a fall harvest festival where we do an alternative to halloween. We use bright colors instead of the typical black and orange ones. We dress up in good costumes, nothing scary (I was little red riding hood last year and my chihuahua was my wolf!), and we give the neighborhood kids candy. We also worship God and give a lesson on Jesus to the children and adults. This is all done outside and we decorate with harvest decorations like pumpkins, scarecrows with smiley faces etc.
With all that said, I do kinda like halloween and wish I could have gone trick or treating more often as a kid. My mom never let me. I think that's just part of growing up not being able to do it. I did go a few times though when I spent the night with my aunt haha! Now as an adult, I've gone a couple of times, but I dress up in something that's not scary.
But this year I will do the harvest festival at church. If I am in the wrong for secretly liking the holiday, I hope the Lord helps me get over it. I have mixed opinions on it. But now I'm curious, what do other CCers think.
Good thread idea, just don't think the BDF was a good place for it.
I like this idea, but it's been tried before. That's pretty much where the modern Halloween comes from. Literally day of All Hallowed. Pretty much beforetime it was a pagan European celebration. So the ancient Catholic Christians renamed the day and tried to purge the pagan elements of it to make a day commemorating the Christian saints and martyrs.
Then of course you fast forward a few hundred years and pretty much the day, like most all holidays, got so heavily commercialized that it has lost its religious connotations, both the ancient pagan and Christianized elements. Now it is pretty much like all major holidays; exploited heavily by corporations for the sake of money.
