I love Halloween, as does Ginger. Costumes, candy, trick or treating... there is NOTHING bad about this holiday. Of course, growing up, Halloween was not a welcome holiday in my parents' household.
There were many years where my mom decided that trick or treating and getting dressed up was not in accordance with Islam. I was allowed to get dressed up to go to school, but once I got home the costume had to come off and I was stuck watching bad Halloween specials on tv (they never showed "Its the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" ON Halloween when I was a kid). Of course, there were several years where my parents would head out for some event or another on Halloween (not holiday related) and us kids would sneak out with our pillow cases to be filled with candy.
This was always backed up at Sunday school by our teachers who would caution us against going trick or treating and celebrating Halloween because it was against our religion. While Halloween may have started as a pagan holiday, it has long lost that meaning. I mean, do we really think that ancient pagans intended me to get recycled peanut butter kisses when I went out trick or treating? While those peanut butter kisses may have been produced during the time of the pagans (does ANYONE actually like those things?), they were not intended to be forced upon children generation after generation after generation.
Maybe we need to bring Halloween back to its roots and find some pagans to teach us how. Of course then my mom would be completely justified in ruining my dreams of candy filled pillow cases....
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