Can christians celebrate halloween?

Just wondering.

I don't.

Not because I'm christian because I'm indonesian duuh!

It's a bloody communist month here!Bloody red october.Don't need halloween when you've seen real blood.Gestapu.Gerakan S30 PKI.

Anyways...do you think it's okay...

for christians to celebrate it maybe at a party admiring a few collectons of edgar allan poe and dressing like the devil?*frowns*

Christians brought the holiday to America. Puritans didn't celebrate it... they didn't celebrate Christmas or Easter either for that matter... only Thanksgiving. Quakers didn't celebrate it either. Halloween was brought to America by the Presbyterians... who had continued its celebration in northern England... Lowland Scotland... and Ulster Ireland.

The name itself is a contraction of **All Hallow's Evening.**

Halloween is the Christianization of Samhain...so technically it is as Christian as Christmas or Easter... two formerly pagan holidays. Upon research into the esoteric background of the Christian belief... these pagan holidays are Christian in the truest sense of the word.

Every christian I know celebrates Halloween.

Funny thing is, many of them then turn around and say atheists can't celebrate Christmas...someone oughtta tell them that the Pagans had that holiday first.

yea I think its okay.I sure do.I don't think its nuthin wrong with gettin a lil candy and party'n

*More frowns*with a devil outfit?...

Ho ho ho...I'm Satan!.. I demand my lolipop!

THERE AINT NOTHIN WRONG BOUT going OUT TO GET CANDY

Yeah...except when Christians dress up like the devil to get em'...what's wrong with jeans and sneakers?I ain't complaining bout candy...well hehe... ain't complaining at all just wanna know what people think...

Halloween in the USA is very different than in other countries...
It's VERY commercialized

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Sika

The same with christmas I suppose...hmm...

Can christians celebrate halloween?
Why not they celebrate plenty of pagan based holidays...

I celebrate halloween and I am a christian. this year I am going to be a...RANDOM PERSON!!! AND GO TRICK OR TREATING LOL.

If it bothers you, don't do it. But I don't see anything wrong with it. Of course, I'm not Christian either.

***and dressing like the devil?***

do you really think the devil has a farmers pitchfork and is red and has a long tail with a spike? the horns might be alittle unaccurate aswell. nobody knows what the devil looks like lol. actually if you look through greek mythology, youll see that description as a mythological creature, not satan at all.

I've never celebrated halloween before, and thats only because I have to do what my parents ask. but they believe its wrong becuase its a day of witches.

im grown up and I recognize their ignorance. im old now and I will go trick or treating for the first time!

why? because. aslong as I dont take it any other way, aslong as my mentality doesnt go further than simply getting free candy, than everythings fine.

besides. us Christians can be big hipocrites. we wont celebrate Haloween because its the *devils day*, *withces day*, *following the world*, *pagan holiday*, but in reality we celebrate plenty of pagan holidays already, christmas for one.

its just the US commercializing and boosting our economy in my opinion, and it only brings smiles to little kids faces. they play dress up all the time right?

now there are kidnappings, and some cults do kidnap children, drug up the candy, and what not on haloween, but thats the most reason why people try to stay away from it.

dressing up like satan? anything wrong with it? no. because thats not what satan looks like. and even if it is, aslong as your mentality is not for representing satan lol.

haloween bad for christians? no. not unless your ignorant and only listen to your priests/ pastors.