Here's another good one...

[The Hammer]

I'm happy I no longer celebrate halloween and I understand its connection with false religion and demons.

I'm glad. Enjoy

 

[Glaurung]

Halloween is certainly a mockery.

Not really. Having a "spooky" themed day of revelry every year; when children dress up in costumes and eat confectionary is innocent fun. To think that alone somehow glorifies the Devil is absurd. That's not to say there's no danger in Halloween. People who use the festival as an opportunity to engage in the occult (Ouija boards, Tarot based divination, ect) do cross the line into sin. Allhallowtide should be a somber time overall. The fun and games of Halloween should shift into into the pious remembrance of the saints (All Hallows') and then the departed (All Souls'). The only unfortunate part concerning Halloween is that the secular, commercialized event has eclipsed the rest of the triduum.

 

[URAVIP2ME]

Sounds like the parents should have been around.

One neighbor complained to the other neighbor and the other neighbor said she knew her teen daughter had corn to throw.

Recently someone locally complained that daily she had to pick up litter at her front yard.
She wrote that parents should teach their children not to litter.
I was wondering if the children learned to litter from their parents.
A van recently pulled away from the Duncan Donut's drive through and right in front of us littered the parking area.
Surely a child was Not driving, so the litter bug was a driving adult.
In this state when you sign your Registration Card you are signing that you know Not to litter.

 

[YoursTrue]

And I see nothing wrong with her perspective.

This lady belongs to a certain religion. But she'll celebrate anything from another religion as long as it suits her, even if it contradicts what her religion teaches. Because she likes having a good, merry time so it doesn't matter to her what the celebration is about in particular.

 

[YoursTrue]

Not really. Having a "spooky" themed day of revelry every year; when children dress up in costumes and eat confectionary is innocent fun. To think that alone somehow glorifies the Devil is absurd. That's not to say there's no danger in Halloween. People who use the festival as an opportunity to engage in the occult (Ouija boards, Tarot based divination, ect) do cross the line into sin. Allhallowtide should be a somber time overall. The fun and games of Halloween should shift into into the pious remembrance of the saints (All Hallows') and then the departed (All Souls'). The only unfortunate part concerning Halloween is that the secular, commercialized event has eclipsed the rest of the triduum.

The devil is very clever. He disguises himself as fun and frivolity.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

OK, but again, do you think this is in harmony with what Jesus taught, as if you play a game on Oct. 31st and ask for goodies from neighbors and others and say, "trick or treat..."

Trick or treating has nothing to do with religion, Christian or otherwise. It's just a folk custom, and it's obviously meant to be more light-hearted.

 

[YoursTrue]

Trick or treating has nothing to do with religion, Christian or otherwise. It's just a folk custom, and it's obviously meant to be more light-hearted.

I suggest you research the origin. It's possibly now a folk custom but it's kind of like the false idea of evolution by natural selection. It started with a false idea and the concept evolved to trick or treating. The churches went along with it. Don't want to get too detailed for you -- you can look it up, some information found here:
Halloween: Origins, Meaning & Traditions - HISTORY

 

[YoursTrue]

Trick or treating has nothing to do with religion, Christian or otherwise. It's just a folk custom, and it's obviously meant to be more light-hearted.

But again -- trick or treating -- in other words, if the neighbor doesn't treat the reveler, he is tricked.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

But again -- trick or treating -- in other words, if the neighbor doesn't treat the reveler, he is tricked.

Yeah, it's to encourage pro-social behavior and community involvement, perhaps. There's not really much tricking going on these days, though.

 

[YoursTrue]

Yeah, it's to encourage pro-social behavior and community involvement, perhaps. There's not really much tricking going on these days, though.

So far I haven't seen reports of littering or destruction this year by trick-or-treaters. But the concept is deluding.

 

[Heyo]

The devil is very clever. He disguises himself as fun and frivolity.

Source?

I think it's the other way around. Happy people tend to be less religious, so the churches hate that and want people to be miserable. Therefore they invented the scare that fun is of the devil.

 

[URAVIP2ME]

Source?
I think it's the other way around. Happy people tend to be less religious, so the churches hate that and want people to be miserable. Therefore they invented the scare that fun is of the devil.

The false ' churches ' invented the scare tactic that pain right after death is from God.
They translated the word Gehenna into English as: hell fire.
Gehenna was simply a garbage pit outside of Jerusalem where things were destroyed.
Thus, Gehenna is a fitting word for: destruction. Destruction for the wicked - Psalms 92:7; Psalms 104:35.

Since the people I know from school days in the 1960's they seem to have the same state of happiness today.
Some more religious and some less religious.
Some love to have fun connected to religious traditions, others don't, or are somewhere in the middle.