Hubby and I don't celebrate Halloween. We try not to broadcast that too much because whenever we mention it people automatically get offended for some reason. Truth is we don't mind other people celebrating the day, we just don't choose to do it ourselves for a number of reasons. It's like when Paul was saying in one of his letters that the Spirit convicts people in different ways, and just because the Spirit convicts someone to (for example) eat only kosher, it does not mean that the people not eating kosher are bad. We even hand out candy to the little kids that come to our apartment so that we don't look like a bunch of meanies, we just don't dress up and decorate and do all that other stuff that goes along with Halloween (except painting pumpkins).
We chose not to celebrate Halloween for a number of reasons, foremost of which is that Hubby's mom felt convicted a long time ago not to celebrate it, so Hubby never did growing up. Secondly, but almost more importantly, is that Hubby does not like all the witch and devil and creepy costumes and things associated with it, and there is a very good reason for that. In the states we all see little girls dressed up as cute little witches and babies wearing little horns with curly mustaches drawn on and think its cute and nothing more. Well Hubby grew up in West Africa as a missionary kid and he can tell you first hand that witches are NOT cute, in fact they are terrifying and I personally would never like to meet one (the way he describes them has given me nightmares). And don't even get him started on demons. I was shocked the first time he told me he had personally witnessed demons being cast out of people, but it actually does happen and it is chilling. All that stuff is just too real to Hubby to celebrate it the way people do in the states. Funny thing is, the more research I did, the more I found out that most countries don't celebrate Halloween, not even western countries much like our own. Apparently in those countries its considered a pagan holiday and so is not nationally recognized.
But like I said before, we do not hold it against anyone for having a Happy Halloween. My own parents still celebrate it, though my mom decided this year to forgo her traditional witch costume (which she has done since I was a baby) and dress up like my sister instead (if you knew my sister, you would understand). So despite the fact that we ourselves will not be celebrating, we are praying that everyone has a safe and happy night tonight =0)
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