I look at the world today and see that many of the holidays and customs that are observed are not worth celebrating. In this article, I am concentrating on the popular Halloween celebration. “Trick or Treat” is the slogan children use at the doors of homeowners, waiting for the person to open up the door to fill their bags with goodies. If you’re like my family and me, you turn your lights off when the time comes. Either 1) you don’t have any candy or 2) you don’t celebrate this holiday. The latter is the reason I have.
I find Halloween unchristian because it promotes devil worship. If you’re a Christian like me, consider what Halloween involves. Is it harmless fun or something more? The roots of Halloween can be traced back to the flood of Noah’s day mentioned in the Hebrew Scriptures. Halloween started as a celebration honoring the people who were killed in the Deluge. They were the people whom God deemed wicked for their ruinous deeds. Sadly, this tradition soon found its way into many of the world’s religions throughout the centuries.
According to the book “The Worship of the Dead,” those who practiced this pagan ritual honored the deceased. They believed the “departed” returned to the realm of the living as the undead or spirit creatures. In occult classics, the term frequently used in this regard is the spirits “having unfinished business to take care of.”
Doing some research on Halloween, I found more background information in the Encyclopedia Americana. To my extreme surprise, I found connections between today’s Halloween celebrations and Celtic Druid ceremonies during pre-Christian times.
The Celts had festivals for two major gods–a sun god and a god of the dead (called Samhain). November 1 is the Celtic New year. On this day, the Celtics held their festival. In the first century C.E., the Roman Catholic Church had a similar holiday known as All Souls’ Day, memorializing the death of their faithful servants. In the 1910 version of the Encyclopedia Britannica, this tradition involved all those who did not reach the “Beatific Vision” or “Heavenly Calling.”
Some would disregard the history of Halloween and celebrate it because they love to dress up like their favorite superhero, character, actor, or actress. On a positive note, why celebrate this holiday when you could dress up on any day of the week? Yet some go overboard when they dress up like a witch, warlock, vamp, or any other undead creature. Shockingly, I’ve seen some dressed up like the devil himself. Then there are those who celebrate this holiday all year long with their ugly faces, both on the inside and out.
For those Christians who want to please God, they should know that Halloween is a God dishonoring celebration. My last thought comes from Ecclesiastes 9:5, which reads, “For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten.” These words were recorded in the Bible by wise King Solomon. If you are a Bible reader who wants to know about what the Bible really teaches, then you will find that Halloween contradicts the inspired word of our heavenly father, Jehovah.