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Are Christians that against Halloween that much? It feels like it was just adopted by them as a fun event than anything of relevance like Christmas or Easter.
This feels like trying to start a fight with Christians because they're less likely to punch you in the face like other religions, even the Buddhists.
Many Christians don’t care, but the ones that do aren’t so concerned about the origins but rather the substance of what is being celebrated.
Fear, horror, violence, murder, suicide, resentment, revenge, paganism, witchcraft, sorcery, superstition, the occult, demons, monsters… these things are all associated with Halloween. For a non-believer these are just silly bits of fanciful fiction but for a Christian these things are very real and very evil.
For a Christian, seeing these things celebrated is like grandparents who escaped from Stalinist Russia seeing their grandchildren supporting communism. You know they’re doing it out of naive ignorance and they don’t actually have a clue what they’re supporting, but it grieves your heart to see them supporting it nonetheless.
My understanding is that the festival tradition of dressing up originally developed as a way to scare away any evil spirits and hide behind masks to avoid them, not to celebrate them. Now it's been taken over by non-Christians, so no one remembers the original festival.
One Halloween in the early 2000's I was at Lake Como in Italy and the Halloween parade consisted of people largely dressed normally, carrying candles through the town while distributing candy to the kids, and ended up in the church itself for midnight mass. Some people in costume joined in, but the main thing was the walk to the church.
After all it is All Hallows' Eve. It's not a super important day for Catholics. The next day and the day after that are far more important days to them. November 1st, which is All Saints Day and especially November 2nd, which is The Feast of All Souls. The three days together are known as Allhallowtide and all three are holy days of obligation.
All Souls is such an important feast in Catholicism that one of the early colleges at Oxford, for example, was called All Souls, founded in the 1438 (its full name is The College of the Souls of All the Faithful Departed). Back when they named organisations and institutions they valued in ways they thought would bless all who would be involved with it.