{"id":2491,"date":"2015-10-22T07:01:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T11:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2491"},"modified":"2015-10-22T07:02:12","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T11:02:12","slug":"halloween-the-annual-conniption-fit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2491","title":{"rendered":"Halloween: The annual conniption fit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It wouldn&#8217;t be Fall, and Halloween, if preachers weren&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charismanews.com\/opinion\/52738-why-christians-absolutely-should-not-celebrate-halloween\" target=\"_blank\">having fits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Setting aside a day to celebrate evil, darkness, witchcraft, fear, death and the demonic brings disdain to God. Period. A Christian celebrating Halloween would be like a Satan worshiper putting up a nativity scene at Christmas while singing, &#8220;Happy Birthday, Jesus!&#8221; The two just don&#8217;t go together. Jesus has nothing in common with Satan (2 Cor. 6:14), and neither should we.<\/p>\n<p>[ &#8230; ]<\/p>\n<p>Halloween is the one day a year when neighbors come to your door expecting to receive something. So give them JESUS! Our family chose to give God the glory and the devil a black eye by reaching out to our neighbors with the gospel of Jesus Christ!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sure.  Because any kid would rather get a stupid Jack Chick tract than candy corn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wouldn&#8217;t be Fall, and Halloween, if preachers weren&#8217;t having fits. Setting aside a day to celebrate evil, darkness, witchcraft, fear, death and the demonic brings disdain to God. Period. A Christian celebrating Halloween would be like a Satan worshiper &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2491\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2491"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2494,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions\/2494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}