Posts Tagged ‘Halloween’

Halloween – Not for Children Only

Halloween is one day in the year when young-minded adults step back to their carefree childhood and join numerous children in dressing up in colorful costumes and entering the land of pretend.

Not to be left out, the hosts of various TV programs and their live audiences also join in the fun.

The programs that caught my attention this year were:  

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Halloween: Celebrating All Saints Day or Runnin’ With the Devil?

“Trick or treat?” That’s the rhetorical question that follows the knock on your door on Halloween eve. Upon opening the door you see giggling, anxious children, eagerly holding out their bags, waiting for you to drop in candy, fruit, or other goodies.

Many adults as well as children enjoy the annual celebration that gives imaginative children the opportunity to fantasize that they are the characters of their dreams – or nightmares – by dressing up in appropriate costumes and going door-to-door trick or treating or attending parties. Some child-at-heart adults join in the fun and put on costumes, too.

While numerous religious factions have no problem with Halloween, some

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