Do you think it's a sin to celebrate Halloween?

I guess people, specifically the holy rollers, seem to blieve it is celebrated as a paegan holiday. Maybe at some point it was, but now it just seems like a good excuse to dress up and have fun with life. It's so fun to pass out candy and see all the cute costumes, how anybody could make it seem to be such a bad holiday must be a bitter person inside. But I suppose if you grew up under a houehold that preached against halloween, it's easy to see how the philosophy/beliefs would be passed down from generation to generation. Especially those families that live in smaller towns, it's just an excuse for those bitter people to be bitter. They seem to think that it's all about killing black cats, stepping on mirrors and getting a case of bad luck, etc. It's a shame really.

Halloween not only endorses Satan(We ridicule satan for 364 days of the year, but we give him one day where we are basically partying with him? That's just crazy), but Hallowen stems from Pagan beliefs, somethingt that if you are a christian you should want and are suppose to shy a way from.

Not sure but I do allow my kids to go out on that night if they choose to.

yes it is a sin come on it is evil

I don't think so. If you're worshipping the devil then obviously that's a sin. But Halloween doesn't mean that for me. It means passing out candy and playing dress-up. If your thoughts and actions are in order, then what's the big deal?

No...Halloween is the shortened form of All Saints Eve because today is All Saints Day. Halloween is not a pagan holiday. Samhain was a pagan day. The two holidays have similar meanings.

My own definition of 'sin' is 'a thought or action that leads one away from oneness with whatever you see as or believe to be the ultimate progenitor and creator.' I call that thing (or person) God and, once one has had direct experience of Him or Her or It, there is less chance of confusion about sin. One of the original purposes of all religions was to give people who hadn't yet had a personal experience guidance on how to live their lives and to be ready when the experience comes. They therefore need to create a series of rules and beliefs which vary from religion to religion. Some religions see the path that leads away from 'the light' as being personified as something called Satan or the Devil. My personal experience tells me that that is unfortunate and not exactly true but that is beside the point. I see little wrong with Hallowe'en as a festival. It is sad, I think, that it has become so commercialised and has completely lost (for most people) any element of the reality of the traditions behind it. To me it is like an old tune which used to have meaningful words but is now just played as a jingle with no feeling or meaning. When that happens, when one performs an action that has lost its meaning, it is time to reassess why one continues. Historically, as Samhain (and later when the Church decided to honour the festival by moving the date of All Souls Day) it was a day when the veil between the material and spiritual world thinned. The Celtic belief was that both good and bad spirits were able to have more contact with humans at that time and it was unwise to go about alone, so arose the tradition of dressing up (so that the spirits wouldn't recognise one) and of going about in groups. This became a tradition of begging from door to door (for 'soul cakes' which were a propitiation to the spirits, and for money). One of the old (Christianised) rhymes was: A soul, a soul a soul cake, Please, good missus, a soul cake An apple, a pear, a plum or a cherry, Any good thing to make us merry, One for Peter, one for Paul, Three for Him who made us all. I think that those who see the festival as something evil, and therefore say it is wrong (or sinful) to celebrate it, are reacting mainly against the commercialism and loss of real meaning which conveys a very confusing message to children about the real nature of evil (and good) spirits. They are the same people, I imagine, who reject the 'Five Hail Marys and a Paternoster' method of atoning for sin. In other words, they see it more as a blasphemy than as a worshipping of the Devil. Those who say that it is a celebration of Satan are probably thinking of it as a pagan festival. Paganism is (incorrectly) associated with devil worship simply because many Christians see anything non-Christian as wrong. It is all very confused and confusing!

well me personaly its my fav day of the year i usually get dressed up but im not this year and most people i know dont think of it in any sinfull way they just like being able to dress up and be something or someone else for a day. and kids only like it for the candy lol jk

Im a Christian and I celebrate Halloween. I dont see anything wrong with dressing your kids up and taking them door to door for candy. Its not like we go around making human sacrifices. lol

no it is not a sin

It's not a sin. Most people don't really know the significance of halloween. It's an opportunity for children to get candy, at least thats what most think. I think you should let your kids enjoy their short childhoods.

I can remember growing up in a time when I heard nothing along those lines about Halloween. It was just a time to dress up, visit people and see if they recognized us, and--of course!--get lots and lots of yummy treats in our bags. We had Halloween parties at home, school, and even at church (my church at that time being of the Evangelical United Brethern denomination, though we now call ourselves United Methodists). Very few people associated Halloween with Satan--or even with Pagan beliefs. In fact (although it had its associations with Christianity in the sense of being the eve before All Saints Day), Halloween was seen more as a secular holiday, just as with St. Valentine's Day (even though associated with a very courageous saint), St. Patrick's Day (honoring another saint but, also, just a kind of fun time to wear green and be Irish whether you were actually Irish or not--I actually have Irish in me, btw), and The Fourth Of July. So what has happened to make Halloween seem so "evil" to some people these days? IMO, fear. There's a lot more uncertainty these days. We have learned that Presidents and other elected officials have feet of clay, and crime seems to be running rampant. When this kind of thing happens, even some of the most wholesome activities become suspect. We fear that they might be evil doing a wolf-in-sheep's-clothing disguise to mislead the masses. And I DO believe that this kind of thing goes on where we gradually get introduced to more intense levels of sin so slowly that we don't even realize that it's happening. However, I don't believe that this fun activity that has been enjoyed for generations falls into that category. When I took a religion course while in college, one kind of way that Christianity might be practiced was referred to as "Christ Against Culture." This is where people decided that they wanted no part of "the world" with "the world" being anything that wasn't in some way related back to their chosen church denomination. I believe that a lot of people have become more suspicious of what they don't understand these days in response to having been disillusioned by such things as the scandals going on in Washington, D.C. There's so much more that I can say about all of this, but I'll shut up for now...

Why would Halloween be a sin? The way I understand it, the United States celebrates by letting their kids dress up in costumes and run around collecting treats, or they get to play a trick. Christmas is closer to Yule, if you really want to that pagan origins makes a holiday a sin, and so many people still write "Yuletide" or "Yule" during the year. Why Halloween? Why not Christmas? Besides, doesn't God look first at your heart? Wouldn't someone going out to have an innocent bit of fun be judged innocent of sin?

I don't think so. This Western tradition coincides with our ALL SOUL's DAY (Christian) in our country where we "FIESTA" (Folk Christian Tradition)in the cemetery by the graves of our loved ones who have gone Beyond...We feel that they are still with us in these times..

I don't think god really cares if you have a little superstitious fun.

not at all

u know my mother told us when we were young that it was a sin to celebrate halloween.. she told us that it was the holiday of evil spirts and the devil... yeah i know she was a little nuts.. but she finally came around.. she really doesn't mind it anymore

I was always taught that Halloween and why we wear costumes is because we are warding off any evil spirts in preperation of the next day which is all saints day.

Definitely not. It's one of my favorite holidays.:0)

tes its a sin