Innocent fun, not evil

What is all the speculation of Halloween about? Halloween is supposed to be a day children get the opportunity to dress up in fictional characters and indulge themselves in enormous amounts of candy. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, on October 31st, Halloween is celebrated in the United States, Canada, and the British Isles by children going door to door while wearing costumes and begging for treats and playing pranks. I do not understand why issues such as religion have to be connected to this celebration. Children all over the world see this as a fun day where they can get loads of free candy. The children are the future of our world and as long as they see Halloween as something fun and rewarding, then why must we fill their heads with views that it is satanic to celebrate. I grew up loving to celebrate Halloween purely for the enjoyment of taking my sister, who was little at the time, door to door trick-or-treating and watching her little face brighten up with joy as she saw all those suckers and tootsie rolls poured into her little pumpkin. The innocence of this annual celebration is being destroyed as people bring satanic views into something that doesn’t deserve scrutiny. For me, a college student, I have lost the interest of Halloween because of the constant comparison of Satan and Halloween. In the United States Halloween has become the sixth most profitable holiday (after Christmas, Mother's Day, Valentines Day, Easter, and Father's Day). What this tells me is, Halloween is a success day and people enjoy celebrating it every year. So quit making excuses as to why we shouldn’t celebrate it and why it is so dangerous. Over the past decade, I have dressed up as a wizard, ghost, Batman, Freddy Krueger and recently have mocked “V” from the movie, V for Vendetta. Should I consider myself a satanic symbol? No. It is the innocence of the children we are destroying when we use reasons of Religion and Satan to disbar the celebration of Halloween. If a child does not know that Halloween’s origin is known as a night of power, when the veil that separates our world from the Otherworld is at its thinnest, as told by Stephen Wagner of Paranormal Phenomena; then why must we destroy their minds with the nonsense that can do nothing but destroy their innocence?