This Halloween thing is getting out of control. Lines are
drawn down the middle and it appears to me that people in favor of Halloween
deep down do not want to give it up that they are using weak arguments. Some
such arguments appear to scare you by saying the Devil hates Halloween. The
following are such.
The devil hates Halloween because it is the one time of year
they are talking to their neighbors. The devil hates Halloween because kids are
laughing. The devil hates Halloween because it allows kids to stay out late
which the devil tricked their parents to be over protective and keep them in at
night on other nights of the year. The devil hates Halloween because there is
generosity in giving out candy and that giving produces a feeling of gratitude.
The devil hates Halloween because it Celebrates the vigil of all saints day.
If these are your arguments consider that you deep down know
Halloween has been turned into something not good. I can assure you the devil
is happy to take one for the team to allow such tiny goods that come out of the
day in lieu of all the bad. Let’s say children watch tv and laugh at someone
being shot. Does that mean people getting shot is okay because kids are
laughing? You don’t need Halloween to be generous. Many people are generous at
Christmas and year round. I happen to think the devil is happy that these kids
are getting practically soft kill poison in the form of candy. We all know it
isn’t healthy. There is no need to dress up as something evil to receive a gift
or to give one. If you were to ask 100000 people why they celebrate Halloween
would anyone say it is because they are celebrating the vigil of All Saints
Day. I think you know the answer to that. How do you celebrate those in heaven
by dressing up as something evil? You know what I mean so I don’t even need to
give examples. I heard an argument for
Halloween that goes like this. It is a good and medieval thing to dress up as
monsters to mock the devil in light of Christ’s victory. That’s nice but that
is not what people do on Halloween. No one dresses up as a something evil to
mock the devil they dress up as something evil because they think it is cool
People don’t dress up as a witch because it is condemned in scripture,
they dress up as a witch because they wish they had magical powers. To say it
is medieval is like saying since naked people are painted on church ceilings
that makes porn okay. It’s not the same thing; it is done for different
reasons. It also had nothing to do with the original day of remembering people
who are in heaven. There ain't no monsters in heaven folks.
The
former top Exorcist of Rome Fr Gabriele Amorth who has performed over
70000 exorcisms in his life knows what evil looks like and how to fight it.
This is what he says about Halloween: “Halloween is really a spiritual
gathering presented as a form of game, and that is the equivalent of singing
hosannas to the devil”
Back
in 2014, the International Association of Exorcists said they wanted to see
Halloween banned due to a spike in occult activity around the holiday. Father
Aldo Buonaiuto said the organization's emergency number receives around 40
calls a day around October 31. Buonaiuto said, “Many say Halloween is a
simple carnival, but in fact, there is nothing innocent or fun about it – it is
the antechamber to something much more dangerous.
Although father Vincent Lampert, a
Vatican-trained exorcist, told Catholic Online that it’s fine to celebrate
Halloween. He says:“Ultimately I
don’t think there’s anything wrong with the kids putting on a costume, dressing
up as a cowboy or Cinderella, and going through the neighborhood and asking for
candy; that’s all good clean fun.
The faithful shouldn’t glorify evil or practice witchcraft, even as a joke. That
would be the danger of Halloween that somehow God is lost in all of this, the
religious connotation is lost and then people end up glorifying evil,”
I tend to
agree. You have to be very careful how you celebrate Halloween. Not only with
good costumes but protecting children from seeing the evil exposed on
Halloween. It also applies to adults because they have become more sexually
explicit in recent years.
