BOO!

It's that time of year again. When children of all ages will pick a character and attempt to spend time adhereing to this character's personality. Some will dawn the being of the "black" spider man, others will try to be silly like sponge bob. Little girls will show off their princess skills, and the brave ones will put the fangs and fake blood in their mouth's and attempt to convince the neighborhood they are only out at night. Most of them will do this all for a bag, pillowcase, or plastic pumpkin of candy. That's right, it's Halloween!

Now, many many Christians forbid the joining in of this "holiday". It's a pagan holiday. Evil is represented from past to present on this very day. Nasty evil things take place specifically the 31st of Oct year after year, and Christians choose not to succumb to this behavior. Good point. However, here are mine:

Christmas, Easter, and a plethora of others actually all came from or are at the same time of "pagan" holidays. It has even been widely agreed upon (if not a fact by now) Jesus was not actually born in what we understand as December. Easter has long been a celebration of spiritualism and the new season. (among other things). Now, why or why not these are also now Christian holidays is really no concern for me....I don't really mind that we share, so long as people are willing to accept the point. Why is halloween any different? Is it because Christians haven't found a "spiritual" connection to hijack it over? Since the birth of the "house of horror" type places (the not so haunted haunted house) I would argue Halloween has become the "scare the hell out of people (literally) night" And, like other holidays, you can be a Christian and still adopt/celebrate other versions of the shared holiday. For instance, Christians exchange gifts, which is arguably not connected to the wise men brining gifts to the baby savior. Many hunt easter eggs...witch has NOTHING to do with the death or resurrection of Jesus.

SO, accept the fact that we can hijack pagan holidays, give them our own meaning, and do with them what we want, so long as we throw a church service in there ;) I'm going to dress my daughter up like a monkey and hit the methodist church!