Big Bubba - The Holidays Threads Merged

[AllforHim]

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[Sing4Him]

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[Resting]

This our first year NOT celebrating Halloween. My husband and I decided not to (we have three sons-young enough for Halloween)...I talked to my oldest (8yrs old)...and he was just fine with it. Instead, we are having family movie night-popcorn, A PIECE OF CANDY-and a good familiy movie...he is excited. It makes it easier because the school doesn't do anything for Halloween either.

Just to differentiate between Halloween and other "holidays"...I consider Christmas and Easter to be "holy days-hence "holidays"...Halloween has nothing to do with Christ and everything to do with evil and Satan...Christmas and Easter are celebrations of our Savior and I don't know why someone wouldn't celebrate them. I am aware of their pagan origins---but at this time, that's not what they are about...So what's the problem?

[GreenEyedLady]

Just to differentiate between Halloween and other "holidays"...I consider Christmas and Easter to be "holy days-hence "holidays"...Halloween has nothing to do with Christ and everything to do with evil and Satan...Christmas and Easter are celebrations of our Savior and I don't know why someone wouldn't celebrate them. I am aware of their pagan origins---but at this time, that's not what they are about...So what's the problem?

I don't have issues with Christmas and Easter and I don't celebrate Halloween either. I Don't do Santa and I don't do the bunny. I celebrate the holidays with family and celebrate the Lord. I think one can celebrate the holidays without including the pagan traditions.

You can take this pagan thing all the way down to a wedding ring. I went through this with a friend along time ago regarding my Christmas tree. I don't see the harm in it. She didn't want her child around my house while i had it up. :rolleyes
Yet she was perfectly comfortable celebrating Marti Gras downtown with the whole liquor crowd. :ohno

[Resting]

I agree with you. I love to celebrate Christmas and Easter because they celebrate the Lord! I know they have pagan origins, but I have nothing to do with those origins. It is what it is now.

Just as Halloween is...but it was never good...has nothing to do with the Lord...and I just don't want a part in it.

As for Santa, I am less sure. We make a huge deal about Christmas being Christ's birthday, and the kids know this...Santa has been included in past Christmases (plural?)-don't know if this is me clinging to a fleshly thing or what.

I guess I'm unsure as to how far to take this...

[StarryEyedLad]

We don't have kids and we live in a building that the neighborhood kids can't get into for trick or treating, so Halloween is a non-issue for us. :heh

Same here. My apartment building has security doors, you have to buzz people in, so I haven't had a single trick-or-treater in the 3 years I've lived here. It is a big lift from my shoulders to not to have to deal with it. Even the kids in the building don't come a-knocking. I stopped looking at it as innocent fun and free-candy long ago. Even when I was a kid trick-or-treating I wondered whether or not I should've been doing it, having learned of its pagan origins at a very early age. I'm often surprised when I hear people don't know the origins of Halloween, but I guess I shouldn't be. Most people just don't think it's a big deal.

[Jeremiah333]

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Thank you! :)

[Jeremiah333]

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Thank you so much! :)

[Jeremiah333]

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[ByHisGrace]

This is off topic but since someone mentioned Christmas.....

I don't have children (and I may have posted this already) but if I'm ever blessed with little ones I do not plan on including Santa or the Easter Bunny in our Holidays. I just feel like the world is trying it's hardest to take Christ out....so in my home the focus of these Holidays will be where it should be, on Jesus. I guess I kind of feel strongly about this.

My kids would still get gifts....but they will come from Jesus not santa. And we will try to "be good" because it pleases Jesus (not santa) and we exchange the gifts because we're so happy that God gave us the greatest gift of all.

I think it can still be a really great Christmas without santa. Same thing with Easter, who needs the Easter Bunny?



(I didn't mean to derail the thread)