Halloween renamed?
October 30, 2009
This post was sparked by Pete Wilson’s post on his blog without wax Well it’s that time again. It’s getting cooler and we’re dressing up our kids as their favorite characters to haul in a load of sweets. Along with that we Christians are having the Halloween debate yet again. I realized one thing though this year. As Christians we totally get bent out of shape with the nonchristians as they say “happy holidays” instead of “merry Christmas”. We also do this thing of renaming. Instead of Halloween we call it “fall festival” and still go through the motions of everything else involved in this “holiday”. It just seems strange to me, “happy holidays” doesn’t take away Christmas and “fall festival” doesn’t take away Halloween. Christians trick or treet and nonchristians sing silent night, we’re trying to fool ourselves but what ever name we call it we’re all still engaged in both. So settle down dress your kid up and enjoy the free candy.
