An Approach to Halloween For Worriers
Posted on October 4th, 2007 by MoverMike
This is sick!
Take a great holiday, Halloween, filled with candy, apples, pumpkins, and ghosts and goblins and then taint it with worry about satanic influences.
Lori D’Augostine worries in print in Suffer Not the Trick-or-Treaters
…you who will be opening up your door to children of whom you do not know the state of their soul. Consider the gift that you offer them at your doorstep.
Instead of Candy, you could offer them
…Gospel tracts designed for trick-or-treaters that can be purchased online or at your Christian bookstore. You might also want to consider designing your own tracts or attaching scripture messages to the treats.
Scripture Candy, the makers of Fish Mintsâ„¢ contain wrappers that have scriptural text. Also, EvangeCandy, “the only candy with color-coded Gospels on every wrapper” are fun for children.
As my friend Ron Franscell wrote
Yeah, that’s the way to save a soul … and get your house TP’d. maybe you should give the little devils some Hershey’s white chocolate. That’ll teach ‘em
Ever since I sat in the intensive care waiting room, during the Halloween season, waiting to see if my dad would survive being on a respirator because of pneumonia, I have had an unfavorable view of Halloween.
The walls of that hospital waiting room were dancing with images of ghosts and skeletons.
I thought, “my gosh, I am sitting in this building, praying that someone I love will escape death, and this building is permeated with the mockery of death and the celebration of everything about death as being fun.
I decided then I was not a fan of a holiday celebrating death.
Just my take on the whole thing.