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Originally posted by DreamfulOne
I personally do not celebrate or support halloween due to my spiritual beliefs but also because as you get older the need to dress up and become someone you are not is not intriguing to me. I think it is a sad phenomenon to see grown people dressed up in costumes and supporting this day. What is it's significance? NOTHING! What purpose does it serve? NONE! But this is all MY opinion.
I do watch movies of a "scary" nature, but I also watch movies that are in the genre of comedy, drama, adventurous. Just because I don't celebrate HALLOWEEN, because yes I do believe that in some essence it is giving the DEVIL glory and I will not have any part of that, does not mean that I'm hypocritical by watching scary movies, or movies with violence.
So I guess then it would be hypocritical of me for watching LAW and Order, CSI, Undercover, or any other television program with violence. NO I think not.
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Thank you very much for responding
!! Everyone is very much entitled to their own opinion and their own way of living. We will just have to agree to disagree.
For the record, my post was not pertaining to violence in films, it was just about demons/evil spirits/evil people killing others in scary films, since some say that Halloween is about demons and such.
Now I personally like haunted houses on Halloween for the same reason I like to watch a scary movie on a Thursday night. I just like to be scared. Matter of fact, my boyfriend and I went to a haunted house last night (I thought we'd be the only grown folks there but I saw quite a few older couples. We like to act like kids and remind ourselves of our childhood every now and then). Now we didn't go to the haunted house to support or glorify the devil. We simply wanted to be scared just like when we've watched "Scream", "Friday the 13th", Michael Myers, etc. For us personally, it's only about being scared and not about worshiping Satan. When we attend a haunted house, we are no more thinking about or glorifying Satan than when we just watch scary movies.
However being a Christian, I definitely would agree with you as far as how people may view Halloween. I definitely do no condone participating in Halloween activities as a way of denying Christ or worshiping Satan.