It’s that time of year again. All the disgusting and creepy decorations come out, gory costumes clutter the stores, and candy is everywhere.

Halloween and all its horrors have become internationally accepted and celebrated. Last year alone, Americans spent 12.2 billion dollars on Halloween. That is insane.

What’s even more insane to me is those who bear the name of Christ unashamedly taking part in celebration of this day. How have we become so blind and desensitized to the wickedness around us?

Halloween is steeped in pagan, satanic practices and traditions. Last year I did a post that uncovered the satanism within some of the most popular traditions.

Today I want to show you a few more reasons Halloween is a bad idea all the way around, especially for believers.

First, I’m going to give a shortened history of the day and why satanism is still its theme.

Halloween goes all the way back to the days of the Celtic druids, who believed that on October 31st the souls of the dead roamed the earth freely. They believed that the veil between the spirit world and the real world dissipated on this night, and created a time when they could see the future and even meet with deceased relatives. The druids, or Celtic priests, chose this night to be their highest “holy” time, during which they would offer blood sacrifices to their pagan gods and practice other forms of witchcraft.

This led to many superstitious traditions and practices—many of which are still being used today!

Apart from its obvious connection with the occult and satanism, Halloween is a time filled with many horrors. I don’t believe that it is something anyone with the Holy Spirit living inside of them should ever participate in.

Here are a few reasons why:

Historically, believers had nothing to do with Halloween.

There is evidence that points to the fact that believers were actually targeted by the Celts and druids because of their refusal to participate in the worship of pagan gods. Many of them were forced into hiding around this time of season in particular because the druids would hunt them down to kill them as human sacrifices. This was done through a myriad of methods, one of which was burning alive in bonfires.

By the time the first religious groups began making their way to America in the 1600s in order to escape persecution, the Roman Catholics had fully accepted Halloween and all of its evils. They even went so far as to claim it was good!

But what is interesting to note is that Halloween was not celebrated in America until the late 1800s. The Baptists, Puritans, and Pilgrims who came to settle in America did not bring those pagan practices with them, because they rightfully acknowledged them as being satanic.

During the Irish potato famine in the 1840s, Irish immigrants began flocking to the United States. Along with these immigrants came the traditions and practices of Halloween. Because of the amount of immigrants who came and formed communities, Halloween gained popularity and became an established part of our culture.

But I will always point out that America was built by believers, and Halloween was never a foundational part of our history. Our founders recognized the dangers and evil of it and left it in the Old World when they came here. It has only become accepted in the religious world (outside Catholicism) in recent years.

Halloween is tied in with Roman Catholicism.

When the Catholics started conquering the Celts, they began to blend pagan traditions with their own false beliefs. This was their way of trying to meld “christianity” and paganism, which we know is not possible to do.

So instead of making the Celts give up their satanic beliefs, the Catholics decided to try to put their own spin on these beliefs. “The Night of the Dead” became known as “All Saint’s Day”, or “All Hallows Day”, and the Catholics said it was a day to celebrate all those who had died. (Oddly enough, it was still a day focused on death…)

To mask the pagan tradition of disguising themselves on Halloween, they started dressing up as the Catholic “saints” who had died.

As for the sacrifices, they proclaimed that instead of offering blood sacrifices to their gods, the Celts could kill animals for feasts and claim it was in honor of God’s bountiful blessings.

To this day, Halloween is a big holiday for Catholics.

Here’s the deal though—changing the name of something doesn’t change what it is. Sin doesn’t become righteousness just because we were to call it that.

A satanic holiday doesn’t become a “christian” holiday just because we rename it.

We are teaching children that evil is fun and good.

Do you realize that by involving our children in a holiday such as this, we are actually teaching them that evil is pleasurable and fun?

Think about it. When you take your kids trick-or-treating, and you go up to a house that is decorated with fake blood, witches, and ghosts, what is that telling them? It’s telling them that these are things that are okay.

The entire holiday is centered around death, fear, and demonic activity. When we teach children that it is a fun holiday and that things are supposed to be scary, isn’t it telling them that darkness and evil are good? Isn’t it desensitizing them to all of the wickedness in this world?

Crime rates spike astronomically on Halloween night.

Halloween is in the running to be Boston’s most violent day of the year, with violent crimes spiking by 2x the average.

In the US alone, children are 3x more likely to be hit and killed in a vehicle accident than at any other time of the year.

40% of Halloween deaths involving a vehicle are a result of drug and alcohol use.

Personal property crimes increase by 60%.

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We know from the testimony of people who were once involved in the active worship of Satan, that Halloween is the highest “holy” day in the satanic religion. Most people don’t even realize the amount of wicked and evil things that transpire on Halloween every year. But it is Satan’s holiday, and it is for sure nothing a Christian should ever be involved in.

A. M. Watson

Hebrews 13:8

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Top Sources Cited

Trick or Treat: The History of Halloween by Bill Uselton

Satan’s Trick, Not A Treat by David Smith

The Origins of Halloween Traditions

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