Is Halloween Anti-Chrisitan?

It's Halloween! Time for dress up and candy. That is what it meant to us growing up and when our children were young, and now my grandson! (He is Mario this year...his mother learned to sew and made him a nice costume, but Friday he changed his mind and decided a pirate would be fun.  Gotta love 4 year olds.)  The towns around here have debated trick-or-treat Saturday night or Sunday night.  Several have left it up to people.  Leave your light on Saturday night for trick-or-treaters if you want.  Why?  I don't understand the debate.  Is it about work/school the next day? I hardly think so because 5 years in a row it will fall on a school night and no one says a word.  My only thought is that it is a Sunday and they are concerned about church.  However, no one mentions this.
    
OK. If you are concerned about a pagan holiday on the Sabbath.... you should not be celebrating Halloween at all.  Here's my opinion, folks, whether you want it or not:  Christmas and Easter are such important holidays to me, as a Christian.  They have been commercialized and secularized (is that a word?) until they are hardly recognizable.  I STILL CELEBRATE THEM.  It is important because of what they mean to me... in my heart. How I celebrate is my choice.

Halloween today, in America, for 90+% of people is only a day set aside for people to dress in costume, have treats, and the occasional scare. (Yes, and college kids to "party" heavily... that's no big surprise, they'll use any excuse. I was once one of them, remember?  Drunkeness is another story).  There is no malice or evilness in their hearts that drive them, it's just for fun.  Heck, they can even leave out the "scare" part and just have fun.  I think God knows the heart of His children.  He loves to see us happy and having fun.  He doesn't want us harming ourselves (sin is harmful), so I'm not advocating the 60's "If it feels good, do it" mentality. (or was that the 70's??)  I'm saying: "LIGHTEN UP, PEOPLE!" 

Years ago we had this debate at our church and people were very divided.  10 years fast forward and those same people are now saying they were too legalistic and it's not a big deal.  They see the fun for the kids and that it is not harmful, not satanic.  That's my point of view.  What's yours?