Halloween is EVIL

Did you miss Halloween this year because it's devil worship?  Read this article:

http://www.ucatholic.com/blog/the-catholic-origins-of-halloween/

(I do not claim any credibility for this article.)

But outside of that and simplifying the issue, dressing up as something does not worship anyone.  Sometimes, when you dress up as someone or something, it is in a mocking manner.  Children can become obsessed and devoted to someone or something in many different ways.  I think if children are taught that such an alluring practice as dressing up as a ghost is an evil act, during rebellious stages, they will be inclined to throw themselves further into such things than if they had been brought up moderately.  That which is forbidden is more enticing.

I know some families allow their children to dress up as a monster for Halloween as long as they dress up as a saint for All Saint's Day.  I suppose that is one way to handle the situation.

But remember, on Halloween, some people dress up as angels or dinosaurs – neither of which are evil.  (Halloween can simply be a time when the kids get to take dress-up to a whole new level.  And get candy for it!)  I know that some families miss out on Halloween because they refuse to take part in something with evil origins.  But others just don't like the idea of their children dressing up as something evil.  I propose to you that since true evil is so different from a costume you can find at a store, it doesn't really have any correlation.

It's also rather small to assume that if someone does not abhor and cannot stand representations of evil, that they are not sensitive to it and have no moral awareness.  Such is not always the case, in my experience.  I cannot personally endure horror films and certain Halloween decor makes me squeamish.  But I am very close to some people who are very familiar with this stuff and it doesn't affect them.  Are they insensitive and cruel?  No, and you know why?  Because they are able to distinguish the representation from reality.  True stories of abuse and corruption anger them; but representations mean little to them because they are representations.  They are fake.

Such is Halloween.  I think – and you may contest this – that if children are brought up celebrating Halloween, taught that it is fake, and warned against the real thing, that Halloween will lose a lot of that potency some create for it out of fear.  Laugh at the devil – he has no power over us, Christ has won.