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All Hallows Eve Soap BOX!

Okay I know that Halloween in the christian world is a pagan holiday. If you do the history of Easter and Christmas well they are pagan in origin too. So with all that said....

I LOVE HALLOWEEN!

I love dress up and CANDY! I love the excitement of trick or treats, decorations and running around at night. When do kids get to run around at night? NEVER!

Does dressing up and letting my kids make me less of a christian? I think not. Where is your heart is the question? I mean every church from here to Chattanooga was having a fall festival of some sort on October 31st. Just because you change the name doesn't make it different. If you call a duck an elephant it doesn't make the duck different! To me that is worse, trying to make something what it is NOT. Call it what it is, HALLOWEEN! I mean Easter is named Easter after the Goddess Estra. Are Christian going to start calling Easter something different? Really it is about the heart. Always is, always will be. Calling it something different doesn't change the heart.

I admire more the people that call it what it is and don't participate than the people that call it something different and still dress up and do the same activities. For me I choose to call it what it is and have fun collecting candy. That is that. I mean really ~ why do we give each other presents on Christ's "birthday" which isn't even in December? BECAUSE IT IS FUN! God know the heart and that is what is important!

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Unknown said…
Totally agree with you Heather!!
November 3, 2009 at 5:32 PM
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