It's that time of year again...HALLOWEEN!

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I always find it strange (and a bit hypocritical) when otherwise devout Christians celebrate Halloween.

If you are a Christian that celebrates Halloween, would you mind explaining why?
 
I recant the haunting us comment. I just finished reading last years Halloween thread, all 22 pages of 200 posts... those were fond memories and reminded me how much I miss several members that have not been around in a while. Not to mention, the icing on the cake...that is where DV's astute, reasonable, and somewhat scientific concept, "a pig, in a pew, with a bow, is still a pig" originated!
 
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I find it hypocritical also, but its really mostly little kids that celebrate it, so they can't really be held accountable. I personally have never celebrated haloween, its my sisters birthday and I celebrate that...
 
http://www.cgalliance.org/forums/showthread.php?t=6326&highlight=halloween

That is why I love this group! It is akin to good preaching to me. You laugh, you cry, you get serious, you have a good time...enjoyable!

I am coming back with an edit. Let me find the exact post of pig in a pew, plus I want to get a quote from research that Thad did.

Originally researched and posted by Thaddeus:
Presbyterians were not the only ones who maintained a strong stand against Christmas, as there were many other Christians who held to similar convictions. As a matter of fact, the famous preacher, Charles Spurgeon, stated in a sermon given on Christmas Eve, December 24th, 1871, the following:
"We have no superstitious regard for times and seasons. Certainly we do not believe in the present ecclesiastical arrangement called Christmas: first, because we do not believe in the mass at all, but abhor it, whether it be said or sung in Latin or English; and secondly, because we find no scriptural warrant whatever for observing any day as the birthday of the Savior; and, consequently, it's observance is a superstition, because not of divine authority." [C. H. Spurgeon, Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, 1971, pg. 697]

I cannot believe you forgot the pig analogy! Page 17 of the above linked thread, post #169!

Ohhhhh, this is nice! I have not been to the chick publication website in some time. I was looking at the Halloween thread from 2003 and someone brought it up. Here is an explanation of Halloween in tract form.
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0011/0011_1.htm

another page from the site search for Halloween
http://www.chick.com/search/SearchResults.asp

http://www.chick.com/default.asp and their homepage. If you like tracts, or haven't discovered them, these guys are unbeatable! If you click on reading, to the left on the homepage, then go to English reading, there is a vast list of tracts to read online. These are in comic book form. My all time favorite is Somebody Loves Me, it is in the first list after clicking on English reading.
 
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I like the tracts on Salvation, I think they are beautiful and right on target. Personally, I don't intend to go so far into that teaching to be able to refute it. As for the 700 Club reference, I find it facinating that anyone would bother mentioning/watching it!
 
Sorry Marcy, the one thing that continues to astonish me about Christians is to find a generally sweet and loving person who will - at the drop of a hat - give you a link to a place so steeped in hatred that you it makes you gasp.

I believe that, if there is a hell, it's sole clientele should be people like Jack Chick.
 
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Sorry Marcy, the one thing that continues to astonish me about Christians is to find a generally sweet and loving person who will - at the drop of a hat - give you a link to a place so steeped in hatred that you it makes you gasp.

I believe that, if there is a hell, it's sole clientele should be people like Jack Chick.
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You have very strong feelings about him!! I have never gotten hatred out of his messages. Preacher preaches pretty strongly, yet he always reminds us that he loves us and that we need to remember to love the sinner, but hate the sin. (He is a very kind man; he teases that he is a tiger in the pulpit and a kitty cat out of it!) Perhaps I am looking with that point of view. I know that there is a very fine line and I never want to see that crossed by anyone I recommend.
As I stated Somebody Loves Me is one of my favorites. It has been many, many, many moons ago that I discovered it and it has never left me. I felt it had a very powerful message and addresses a heartbreaking problem in the world today, with a solution that I needed and a message that I hold most dear. It is a message my heart cries out for the whole world to understand.

Generally sweet and loving? :) That means a lot to me! I am feeling that message at this very moment. Thank you ever so much; you made my day!
 
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I don't know, perhaps. I provided a link because I have read several of his tracts and loved them; I am not married to the man!!! What are you trying to say?
 
No, once again, I am trying to get you to see the WHOLE picture, not only the bits you want to see. :)

Objective vs. subjective, remember?
 
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