This article is making the rounds. It's the same argument
Evangelicals have been making for years.
Evangelicalism and its 'desire' to be relevant is a creature
and vehicle of worldly compromise. This article represents scripture
manipulation at its finest but somehow manages to ignore the point... what is
the argument against Halloween? The article never bothers to interact with the
notion. It instead assumes the
Dominionist line about conquering and redeeming the culture and it hides its
cowardly compromise by pretending to have a robust theology.
I won't re-hash the anti-Halloween argument here. I will
provide links at the end of the article but for this piece I will offer a few
comments and exhortations.
How about not partaking of the cup of Christ and that of
devils?
It is amazing how Evangelicals will bend over backwards to
accommodate the world. When you refuse to go along, they call you a retreatist.
No one is retreating. Let me tell you something from long
experience. When you refuse to go along with the world it is noticed. When you
go along with it and try to dress it up as Christian... you're a joke.
Let me say it again... you're a joke.
And I'll go even further and admit something about
non-participation. When you refuse to participate in Halloween or Christmas, to
be honest most people don't care. You're trying to be salt and light and most
of the world yawns and writes you off as cranks and oddballs.
So what?
Are we not called to be a peculiar and set-apart people?
Aren't we told they'll think us strange when don't run after riot and excess as
they do? Aren't we told the world will hate us?
Is there anything Evangelicals won't compromise on?
I'm still waiting to find out, but we're rapidly running out
of options.
Refuse to participate in Halloween. Teach your children why
it's wrong. Let them feel the weight of the world on their shoulders, the
burden of antithesis. Prepare them for the Christian life. Prepare them for the
cross and our call to glorify God through suffering, ridicule, persecution and
more likely than not poverty and alienation.
Have the authors of such pro-Halloween rubbish bothered to
read the New Testament or are they too mired in Abraham Kuyper and Francis
Schaeffer?
Do you want your children to have a sheltered 'Leave it to
Beaver' kind of life?
Forget it. That's not our calling, it wasn't moral then and
regardless it's impossible to live that way today. The 1950s dream has been
over-romanticised and in truth it was a brief and unsustainable window. It
wasn't real and it wasn't rooted in anything half as moral as people think it
was.
Stand for Christ.
Halloween is about as easy as it gets. The lines are not
blurry or fuzzy when it comes to this issue. It's crystal clear. It's a day
that is unredeemable, rooted in heresy and the occult. Have nothing to do with
it.
I don't care what the day meant in the Middle Ages vis-à-vis
the Roman Catholic liturgical year. There were Christians who rejected the
calendar then and there should be now. The Christians of that era suffered for
their faith. If they compromised it was to save their lives, not to maintain
security and respectability in a wicked society.
Regardless of how it is dressed up or recast Halloween is a
wicked holiday and Christians should have nothing to do with.
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