Costumes can be a lot of fun.  My kids always like dressing up as their favorite action heroes, and acting out their favorite adventures.

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Who do you think gets more out of this holiday?  Is it crazy, or what?

Every year, this holiday that celebrates the day before All Saints Day gets more commercialized.  We have Halloween lights, outdoor displays and people build haunted houses—and you wonder why Christians have a problem with it.

What I find most strange is that there are adults that wear costumes to my workplace.  Let’s just say that sometimes what gets worn is inappropriate.

As I’ve said before, I really don’t have a problem with kids playing dress up.  And I have no problem with some Halloween Costume Stores, but you have to be careful, because some feature sexy costumes on the front page.  Which is fine—if you’re doing something for your husband/wife.

In any case, where do you see costumes being worn around you?  Do people come to your door for trick-or-treating?  What do you do when they come?  Do you hand out tracks, or hide in your house?

Our first couple years that we were married, we gave out tracts to people that came to the door—with candy.  Most of the time we’re not around, but for the last couple of years we haven’t done anything, and though I think that it’s not good to celebrate evil, I’m also not sure about not trying to use the time for good.

How do you deal with people at your door?

When I was a child, I dressed up as David in the Bible, and I can remember being C-3P0.  We went to church people’s houses, and nothing was wrong.

Today, Christians avoid Halloween– and for good reasons.  It’s day commemorates an evil time period.  It is surrounded by gouls and the dead.

But that doesn’t mean that wearing costumes and dressing up is wrong.  In fact, one thing that we like to do is to get our children costumes that they can use to play dress up all year around.

And there are neat costumes like the one above– it’s one of the Wizard Of Oz Costumes.  And my kids love to dress up.  They dress up as Spiderman, as Dash from the Incredibles, etc.

One of the biggest problems that I have, though, with Halloween costumes and costumes that you can get from Halloween Costume Stores is that many costumes have gotten “sexy.”  And that they offer these to teens.  Teen girls now aren’t dressing up in modest or cute outfits, but allow teens the excuse of dressing like women of the night and saying “it’s just a costume.”

That I believe is wrong.

So, is Halloween innocent?  Should a Christian participate?

This Christian doesn’t think so, and doesn’t participate… but I don’t see anything wrong with playing dress up or wearing costumes.  Just not celebrating it on that night.

What about you?