Halloween: My Halloween Thoughts About Distractions

As a child, I absolutely loved Halloween and everything associated with it, especially “trick-or-treating,” and dressing differently. I loved the busy activity in the dark neighborhoods, the lights, the sound of laughter, and seeing the socializing taking place in all surrounding neighborhoods. (Yes, I also liked the candy!)

At the time I did not associate what I considered to be good Halloween fun as even being remotely evil, not even when we all grew older and started rolling yards and pulling pranks. (Don’t say you never did it!) I was your typical, good, yet ignorant guy until I was 21 years old, period.

Age 21 was my first Halloween as a real Christian. Things were different. I do not mean this in a pious or self-righteous way, just factually. It dawned upon me that dressing-up like God’s enemies, acting like a fool (contrary to Scripture), and participating in pagan activities was not pleasing to God – nor Christian. Common Sense 101, right? Nor was endorsing kids’ actions (like my past ones) okay either.

Much of my life I was exactly as many people still are today. I viewed the counter-holidays like Halloween and their activities as innocent fun. In reality they are distractions. (I do NOT mean that trick-or-treating is wrong, just the way in which it is usually done, not taking Satan or demons or evil things seriously.)

Think about this for a moment: For every original holiday with any Church or Christian association at all, Satan has a counter way of celebrating the holiday. How? Please read-on.

Halloween used to be All Saints’ time, and was the day that the Protestant Reformation (really everyone’s Reformation) was acknowledged. Now it is a time of acting like God’s enemies and acting foolishly. Who sees modern Halloween and thinks of Jesus??????? Few. It is simply all a distraction.

Easter was traditionally meant to honor the resurrection of Jesus Christ (then Christ Jesus) after He willingly gave His life on a Roman Cross and then rose from the dead to atone for the sins of Believers in Him. Now Easter is a time of egg hunts, rabbits, candy baskets, games, and clothes – things that have nothing whatsoever to do with Jesus and what He did for mankind. (No, forget the ‘newness of life’ argument!) All distractions.

Christmas should be about Jesus coming to Earth and being born as a human baby for our sakes. Now, it is about a lie. What lie? SANTA CLAUS. Yes, the Bible says that lies are from Satan, that He is the Father of Lies.

There is no real Santa that goes to every house on earth bearing gifts. Yet, this character grabs the majority of attention during the Christmas Season, distracting from Jesus Christ. Satan is the Father of Santa if he is the Father of Lies as Scripture says. We even lie to kids for Satan about Santa! Christmas nowadays is about Santa and gifts and nonsense. (The Prophet Jeremiah even warns against Christmas Trees, which we praise.)

Are you seeing the pattern here? Halloween, like Easter, Christmas, and Thanksgiving is a big distraction by Satan to take away any holy or Christian significance. You simply cannot argue with the facts.