I, too, have heard that many do not celebrate Halloween because it "depicts" the rising of the dead and so on and so forth. I was brought up a Baptist, then Methodist, now I am a Baptist. I "celebrated" Halloween as a child, basically because my birthday is in Ocober (20, hint, hint)
. Anyway, my parents always centered my parties around that time...
But, as a child, my parents never said that we could not go to carnivals, haunted houses or any of that.
Also, many Baptists (blacks) here in Louisiana, especially south Louisiana frown upon Mardi Gras. This holiday comes from the Catholic faith.
So to each his or her own.