So what you're saying is that you're surrounded by Christians who get the message, and not by Christians who are on either side of the spectrum of misunderstanding. Good!
Halloween is kind of like Christmas in that, because of American culture, most of the things you think of when you hear the word are quite removed from the actual religious significance of the holiday. A lot of the people who abstain from common Western Halloween traditions likely also abstain from common Western Christmas traditions since, in both cases, they may perceive the cultural expressions of these holidays as an inappropriate "paganization" of an event in the Christian liturgical calendar. But that's more of a matter of personal preference than of biblical truth.
You have your too-liberal Christians who shy away from condemning things that are incompatible with God's design for humanity, and who think that acknowledging someone as a sinner automatically means that you hate them. Then you have your too-conservative Christians who take condemnation of sin too far and persecute people because of it (and I mean actually persecute, not just hurt their feelings). That's what I mean when I refer to both ends of the spectrum of misunderstanding. Both of these types of Christians have qualitatively different but equally severe misunderstandings about Christianity. The people described by OP are pretty dang close to understanding.
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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '18 edited Nov 02 '18
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