I remember having a conversation about Halloween, the Easter Bunny and Santa Clause with our connection group over dinner one Tuesday night. And I remember that Aaron and I had views different from the group on how we would address these things with our children. Unfortunately I can't recall how exactly our views differed. In looking for something completely different I ran across this article by Greg Koukl entitled "Halloween for Christians?" and found his perspective one that I think I would agree with. Koukl says, "All three of them (Christmas, Easter and Halloween) are associated in some way with pagan holidays...The date is meant to coincide with the dates of the other pagan holidays to give an alternative for those pagan holidays. When we put up a Christmas tree and we give presents to each other, there is a different meaning for us than when they celebrated the saturnalia in pagan rituals in the past. We have invested entirely new meaning to the day. The same with Easter. I am not at all bothered by giving Easter eggs, although I understand people used to do Easter eggs as a fertility ritual with a bunny rabbit. But that's not what we're about. We're celebrating the resurrection of Christ and the eggs are somewhat incidental. But Halloween is different because it's not a Christian celebration on a pagan holiday. It's actually a pagan event itself. Therefore, I don't think I would send my kids out trick or treating and I'll tell you why. In Halloween there is a participation not just in the date, but in the specific forms of the pagan enterprise. Virtually all the ghoulish kinds of things that are represented and playfully celebrated on Halloween represent something occult, and I am not comfortable with that."

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