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LivingWaters

Violet, I see your point. However, this is a gray area. I do not think it is "idolizing" if I don't want to miss an episode of a television program. I am an enormous football fan. I spend time during my day talking about football with people. I watch football on Saturdays. Football is a great time of fellowship for myself and many of my friends. However, if I spend 4 hours a day talking in football forums, watch replays of all the games during the week, am glued to the TV all day Saturday and Sunday, that is idolatry. If I love football MORE than I love God, and sacrifice my time with God for football, then there is a problem.

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Whirlwind

Baby Jessie had two costumes...first, he went around as Bugs Bunny. It was sooo adorable! He was angry that we put him into this costume and went crawling towards the door blubbering in babytalk "I don't deserve this, I'm outta here!"

Then when he got home from trick-or-treating we put him into a bumble bee costume. Mom made him a cute little stinger, because the costume didn't have one.

My brother had a haunted house for the kids in the neighborhood, and me and Mom wound up watching TV at her house.

Penny

My son and I got dressed up as "cholos" (Mexicans from East L.A.... I am Mexican but I don't dress like that lol) and we went down two blocks and just got a handful of candy. I would never dress my kid up as any pagan idol like a wizard or something but I think its more of a Hallmark holiday than anything else. Grant it, some people do desire Halloween because they are pagans but thats their sin, not mine. So I think if I teach my child the word of the Lord and make him see that not just Halloween but that EVERYTHING has its dark side, we will be okay in the long end. As long as he always puts Jesus first.

Our church even has a Halloween "haunted house" which actually is what hell would be like if you didn't accept Jesus. We let the kids dress up but nothing dark...

Willow99

I think as Christian people who do not need to conform to this world but rather be transformed. We need to show them that we are different with different goals without being afraid of being seen as narrow minded. The Word separates, it divides; Jesus said think not that I have come into this world to bring peace but a sword. If we act like them, look like them, do like them, then we are of them. Jesus says to come out from among the world and be ye a separated people. Are we separated or are we compromising?
We cannot make a clean thing out of an unclean thing... just to fit in with the crowd. Touch not, handle not.
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Jax

We celebrate life not death,which is what Halloween signifies to me,
It is only the last 4 or 5 years it has become big in the UK.
Before, it was a night that,especially in this country, satanists and witches, especially prayed against christian marriage etc.
Now it is much more commercial.
I did see a really cute baby dressed as a pumpkin,
but mostly the kids were dressed as skeletons/witches/vampires I dont believe there is anything to celebrate there.
We took our kids to an anti halloween party where they played games and talked about things pertaining to life.
I believe scripture says to avoid even the appearance of evil and I believe it would include halloween!