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Originally Posted by Esphes45
Let me ask you all this. What do you do when kids come to your house on Halloween?
Do you cut off all the lights and act like you are not home?
Do you give them candy?
Do you give them some literature about Jesus?
What do you do?
Now I don't think this is what a person should be doing but my wife cuts off the lights and acts like we are not home. But would you consider it a sin to give out candy even though you feel it is devilish?
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People don't walk around at night where we live because it's big time rural. Our house is not even really visible from the road anyway.
Previously when we lived in town we kept the porch light off (which we did year round anyway) and when you have no decorations in the yard or on the house people tend not to knock asking for candy.
One year about 15 years ago we had a paper on our door saying please no trick or treaters we do not celebrate halloween, thank you.
Several kids knocked and we opened to them and politely explained that we don't celebrate halloween. A couple asked why and we explained to them that we were Christians and halloween was a pagan holy day. We explained the origins of trick or treating and costumes and all the "ghoulishness" and we did it nicely.
The only problem we had was when a deacon from a local baptist church came by with his kids. His kids read the sign and told dad these people have a sign saying they dont do halloween. He told them to knock anyway. We explained to the kids what was up and they seemed respectful and all. They went back and I watched deacon dad walk up to our door, tear our sign off, and throw it into the yard.
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