Why Celebrate Halloween?

Note: This will be the top post until after Halloween. I will post more stuff, just scroll down and read.

I have a serious question. If we call ourselves Christians why do we celebrate Halloween? Is it just a harmless children’s holiday where they dress up and get people to give them candy or is there a more sinister aspect to the celebration of this holiday? Just for the record my family does not celebrate this holiday and we never have. Also I want to make it clear I know that the majority of children will never be harmed by the practice of dressing up and collecting candy, other than the occasional tummy ache. That argument will not fly here. My question here is why we “wink” at this holiday by allowing our children to participate in the less sinister aspects, yet ignore that this is the most important holiday of the year for the occult.

I could go on and on about this subject but I will leave you with some passages from the Word and some web sites for you to do your own research on the subject. I will also challenge anyone to give me a solid argument as to why we as Christians should celebrate Halloween. Telling me the children will be left out is not a solid argument.

21 But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good;
22 abstain from every form of evil.
1 Thesalonians 5:21-22 NAS

10 "There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer,
11 or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.
12 "For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD; and because of these detestable things the LORD your God will drive them out before you.
13 "You shall be blameless before the LORD your God.
14 "For those nations, which you shall dispossess, listen to those who practice witchcraft and to diviners, but as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you to do so.
Deuteronomy 18:10-14 NAS

6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
7 Therefore do not be partakers with them;
8 for you were formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children of Light
9(for the fruit of the Light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth),
10 trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.
11 Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them;
Ephesians 5:6-11 NAS

The first site is a Christian site the second in a pagan site. I am using both so that I can show that the research I have done on this is not just Christian propaganda. This is truly a holiday for the pagans and we as Christians should not participate in its practices and traditions.

A Christian take on Halloween history
A Pagan take on Halloween history