The Christians Thoughts about Halloween

Many Christians attribute no negative significance to Halloween, treating this season as a purely worldly holiday devoted to celebrating imaginary spooks, and handing out candies. Christian attitudes towards this season are quite different. Like for instance in the Anglican Church, some dioceses have preferred to emphasize the Christian traditions of All Saints’ Day, while some other Protestants celebrate the holiday as Reformation Day, this is a day to remember the Protestant Reformation. According to Father Gabriele Amorth, a Vatican appointed exorcist in Rome has said if English and American kids like to dress up as devils and witches on one night of the year that is ok and there is no problem with that, and if it is just a game, there is no harm in that. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston has planned a Saint Fest on the holiday. Correspondingly, many modern Protestant churches view Halloween as a fun event for kids, holding events in their churches where kids and their parents can dress up anything they want, play games, and get candy.

 

To these people “Christians”, Halloween holds no threat to the spiritual lives of kids, being informed about death and mortality, and the means of Celtic ancestors actually being a valuable life session and a part of many of their parishioners’ legacy. While in the Roman Catholic Church Halloween is viewed as having a Christian connection, and Halloween celebrations are common in Catholic parochial schools throughout North America and also in Ireland.

Other Christian people feel apprehensive about Halloween and throw out the holiday because they feel it trivializes or celebrates paganism, or other practices and cultural phenomena considered incompatible with their beliefs. A response among some fundamentalists has been to use of hell houses themed pamphlets in order to utilize of Halloween’s popularity as an opportunity for evangelism. Some consider this Halloween to be utterly unsuited with the Christian faith simply because of its origin as a pagan festival of the dead. Jehovah’s Witnesses don not commemorate Halloween because they deem anything that originated form a pagan holiday should not be celebrated by genuine Christians.