Follow me on this... We were discussing James 4:7-10 this week and one of the things that struck me was the admonition by James in 4:9 to lament and mourn and weep. Obviously there is some context and the conversation did get around to being sorrowful over sin and repentance. I started us out though by discussing how this seems a poor way to represent Christianity. I really don't like it when Christians come across us as fuddy-duddy sticks in the mud when really we are capable of having just as much, if not more fun than the world. So, this verse caught my eye. One of the topics that came up is Halloween and how many Christians want nothing to do with it. I am not judging this point of view if anyone has it and in fact respect and understand it. I laid out for the class Rob's theory of Holidays and thought it might garner some discussion here as well. Christmas and Easter have some pagan associations both with the timing of the holiday and some of the symbolism. I've always thought that the significance of the birth of Christ and the resurrection of Christ could not be eliminated/squelched/hushed-up by the forces of darkness so they used the strategy of misdirection (in the form of these pagan symbols) to minimize and trivialize the significance of these events. In kind of a reverse thought process I've kind of always thought that dressing up in costumes and handing out candy kind of trivialized and minimized the admittedly evil roots of Halloween. Plus! it's fun, and you know how we like to justify our fun. Just thought I'd solicit you alls thoughts - do you celebrate it? do you feel any guilt over this or are you at peace with it being a harmless childrens holiday?
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