Family Fun or False Festival?

Why is it Christians feel the need to offer Halloween alternatives? My little town was wrought with Fall Festivals tonight and I must ask myself, “Why?” We don’t like hunted houses so we offer ‘Judgment Houses’ instead, where we try and scare kids into committed relationships with Jesus. God does not need us to soften Satan’s holiday with God-coated versions of demonic activities. We are not to mix Pagan rituals (the origin of Halloween is All-Souls Eve) with the things of Christ because the truth is all it does is mutter the truth and neuter the Gospel. I say we leave well enough alone with this Pagan holiday and spend the evening in the presence of God rather than some cheap imitation that is, at it’s core, evil.

Candy seductions of chocolate and spice
Arising from places anything but nice
Ghosts and goblins and gremlins alike
Witches with brews and heads on a spike
Where did it come from and why is it here
Masquerading in cuteness, but clouded in fear
Pumpkins and scarecrows and candles ablaze
Running through corn fields cut into a maze
Lightly it comes but heavy it goes
For anyone righteous and careful who knows
The truth that lies there: dangerous and dark
Fully revealed, it is startling and stark
Nothing of innocence, demonic by birth
The devil incumbent is here on this earth!
Worship it, why? For, oh, don’t you know
Its origin is evil, fraught by the foe
Searching and lurking for ignorant fools
Who let churches of God be Satan’s great tools
‘Come one and come all
To our festival of fall”
Slyly He comes taking residence, you see
Laughing dark cackles while binding you and me
This holiday of Saints is for sinners alone
No need entertain it with; heart, flesh or bone
"Turn away from dark places," our Savior would call
Let Satan alone! Candy, festival, and all.