7 Reasons You Should Not Celebrate Halloween
Should Christians celebrate Halloween?
In one of his recent videos, Vlad Savchuk discussed seven reasons Christians should avoid celebrating Halloween.
- Halloween’s origins are pagan.
While much of what makes up our society is pagan, including the names of the days of the week, Halloween relates directly to a spiritual festival.
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“Halloween is an old Celtic festival that was called Samhain,” Savchuk says. “It was from October 31 to November 1. People believed that the spirit world and ours were closed during this time. In fact, they believed that the veil between our world and the spiritual world is the thinnest [during this time].
Savchuk points out that those who practice witchcraft use this time to connect with the spiritual realm.
2. Halloween is much deeper and darker to those who practice witchcraft than the average person realizes.
Savchuk notes how Halloween is a major event to those steeped in the satanic.
“Many people who used to be in satanism and occupied pretty high places would actually say that Halloween is a very big deal,” Savchuk says. He explains that Anton LaVey, the founder of the Church of Satan, previously praised Christian parents for allowing their children to worship the devil one night out of the year.
3. Halloween does not have God’s redemptive grace upon it. Instead, it’s growing even darker.
Savchuk says Christians have not redeemed this day the way they believe they have. Instead, we are seeing witchcraft on the rise and the people of God falling flat against this evil.
“The paganism and witchcraft is on the rise. It’s not a decline in our culture. We haven’t redeemed this. In fact, it’s hijacking us,” Savchuk says. “The witchcraft, the sorcery, all this stuff, I don’t think it’s being redeemed. In fact, I think it’s hijacking many people, and it’s making Christians desensitized toward witchcraft and the occult.”
4. Celebrating Halloween makes us compliant and conformed to culture.
Savchuk points out that Christians are not supposed to conform to the patterns of this world. Instead, our minds are to be renewed by Christ.
“We are called to change the world, not to conform to it,” Savchuk explains. “Daniel didn’t bow to the idols in order to fit into the Babylonian culture. We must engage with the culture, but we are not encouraged to imitate it. This world that we live in is our mission field, but we’re not called to try to appeal to it by being like it.”
Going after spiritual things without Christ is the same as taking part in demonic activities. When we entertain these things, we show an openness to evil being poured out on our society. However, this is not the way of the Holy Spirit.
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5. Halloween promotes all the attributes that are opposite to the tenants of Christianity.
“The Bible says that perfect love casts out fear. It doesn’t celebrate fear. Jesus is the light of the world, and we are called to be the reflection of His light in the dark and broken world,” Savchuk says. “The Word of God is light, and nothing about Christianity revolves around darkness. The only death we celebrate is Jesus’ death because it defeated the grave.”
Savchuk points out that Halloween is celebrated at night for a reason; the commemoration of darkness and evil is the truth of what’s behind it.
6. Halloween brings us into fellowship with the works of evil.
Savchuk practically asks the question of whether or not we see more darkness or light come from Halloween, if it is fruitful or unfruitful.
“Go to your local store and see what costumes are being presented and sold for Halloween. Nothing about it is righteous. Nothing about it is light. Nothing about it is love. Nothing about it is faith. It’s spookiness, it’s fear, it’s ghosts and it’s all haunted houses,” Savchuk states.
7. Activities in celebration of Halloween do not honor Christ.
Savchuk says Halloween promotes the debauchery and identity confusion already plaguing our world, making these issues worse instead of better.
“So much more of ungodly activities take place during this celebration. People get drunk, party and start using drugs,” Savchuk says.
As Christians, we are called to live sober-minded, led by the Holy Spirit at all times. Halloween is a celebration of darkness, and this darkness will not lead us toward, but astray from God’s perfect and pleasing light of Christ.
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Abby Trivett is content development editor for Charisma Media.
