Top Halloween Costumes 2006

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Biggest US Holidays In Retail

• Christmas - 457.4 Billion
• Mothers Day - 13.8 Billion
• Valentines Day - 13.7 Billion
• Easter - 12.63 Billion
• Fathers Day - 9.01 Billion
• Halloween - 5 Billion

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Top Halloween Costumes 2006

• Princess (generic)
• Pirate
• Witch
• Spider-man
• Superman
• Princess (Disney)
• Power Ranger
• Pumpkin/JackOLant.
• Cat
• Vampire (generic)

• Angel
• Fairy
• Ninja
• Sponge Bob
• Batman
• Cheerleader
• Football Player
• Tinker Bell
• Monster (generic)
• Star Wars Character

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Halloween The eve of All Hallows or All
Saints Day celebrated the last night of October.
In the Old Celtic calendar the year began on
November 1, so that the last evening of October
was the night of all the witches, which the
Church transformed into the Eve of All Saints.

• Source The Oxford English Dictionary.

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A Little On Halloween

• The Druids invented the earliest Halloween
  celebrations. They were an order of Celtic
  sorcerers.
• November 1, the first day of the Celtic year, was
  a feast day to Samhain, lord of the dead, by the
  Druids.
• The Catholic Church whitewashed the pagan customs
  with a new name to keep their pagan converts
  happy.

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A Little More On Halloween

• The jack-o-lantern, large fires, and apple
  bobbing also come from superstitious paganism.
• The only cultures and societies that masquerade
  religiously as evil characters around fires at
  night are patently pagan.

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And Scripture Says...

• Halloween is a worldly religious celebration of
  pagan origin, and
• Christians are not be conformed to this world,
  but rather to be
• transformed.
• Romans 121-2
• 1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the
  mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a
  living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God,
  which is your reasonable service.
• 2 And be not conformed to this world but be ye
  transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye
  may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and
  perfect, will of God.

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And Scripture Says...

• The disciples of Jesus Christ and sons of God are
  to walk as children of
• light, not as the children of the darkness of
  this world.
• For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye
  light in the Lord
• walk as children of light (Eph 58)
• Ye are all the children of light, and the
  children of the day we are not of
• the night, nor of darkness. (1 Th 55)
• Be ye not unequally yoked together with
  unbelievers for what
• fellowship hath righteousness with
  unrighteousness? and what
• communion hath light with darkness? (2Cor 614)

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And Scripture Says...

• Halloween is popular with the world, which is
  evidence that it is an
• abomination to God. Friendship with the world
  makes God your enemy.
• And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify
  yourselves before
• men but God knoweth your hearts for that which
  is highly esteemed
• among men is abomination in the sight of God. (Lk
  1615)
• Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that
  the friendship of the
• world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore
  will be a friend of the
• world is the enemy of God. (James 44)
• No man can serve two masters for either he will
  hate the one, and love the
• other or else he will hold to the one, and
  despise the other. Ye cannot serve
• God and mammon. (Mt 624)
• For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor
  unclean person, nor covetous man, who is
• an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom
  of Christ and of God. ( Eph 55)

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And Scripture Says...

• Love not the world, neither the things that are
  in the world. If any man
• love the world, the love of the Father is not in
  him.
• For all that is in the world, the lust of the
  flesh, and the lust of the eyes,
• and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but
  is of the world.
• And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof
  but he that doeth the
• will of God abideth for ever. (1 Jn 215-17)
• (For many walk, of whom I have told you often,
  and now tell you even
• weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross
  of Christ
• Whose end is destruction, whose God is their
  belly, and whose glory is
• in their shame, who mind earthly things.) (Phil
  318-19)