Dancing With Darkness

September 20th, 2025
by Natalie Selman

Well, it’s that time of year again, the leaves are changing, there’s a cool breeze in the air, pumpkin spice lattes are back, and Christians everywhere are gearing up to celebrate a demonic holiday.

So many believers have spent 364 days praying for a sound mind, believing God’s perfect love is driving out fear, and speaking life over death. But one day a year, when Halloween rolls around: that all goes out the window and it’s a celebration of death, darkness, and fear.

I am writing this to shed light and bring truth to the forefront. Maybe you have always celebrated Halloween but never stopped to consider what you are celebrating. I want to urge you to dig a little deeper and ask the Lord to give you wisdom and knowledge in this area. Ask Him to show you if partaking in this “holiday” brings Him honor or not.

Now I know there are people who argue that if you say not to celebrate Halloween, then you can’t celebrate Christmas or Easter either, because those modern-day holidays also have pagan roots.

Well, when my family is celebrating Christmas, we are celebrating and focusing on the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, when we celebrate Easter, we are celebrating Resurrection Day and the fact that Jesus is alive!

What is the Christian celebrating and focusing on for Halloween? Witches? Demons? Satan? Because I can barely walk into stores with my children this time of year without them being scared by what we see. Even driving down the road seeing what people have decorated their homes with: 10-foot-tall demon statues, witches, coffins, and of course, Disney characters dressed as Satan.

This time of year, the enemy is openly and obviously trying to drive fear into the hearts of people.

Wake up, Church- what business do Christians have partaking in this day?

Isaiah 5:20 says,
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

Stop trying to make something evil fit into your life in the name of tradition or doing what everyone else does.

There are many people who have come out of the satanic religion, who were once worshippers of Satan, practicing witchcraft, who became Christians and now spend their lives educating other Christians on the realities of things like Halloween and what we consume. They say that Halloween is one of their high holidays. John Ramirez is a very popular speaker who used to be known as, “Satan’s son” but then became a born again Christian and he is quoted saying that Satan told him, “I love when the Christians let their children worship me one day a year.”

Now I am not interested in reading up on the satanic temple, I will have nothing to do with that, but when I googled “Is Halloween a high holiday for satanists” on the google web page, this is what I read that came from the satanic temple’s website, “Halloween is a time when "mundane folk try to reach down inside and touch the 'darkness' which for Satanists is a daily mode of existence".

I just want you to let this settle for a minute, everything I just referenced and how much of Halloween involves Satan, witchcraft, and demonic darkness. And please tell me why we think this is something a Christian should be partaking in, in any way, shape or form?

“Well, we don’t do any of the scary stuff, and it’s a really great time to be with our neighbors, we actually use Halloween as a time to evangelize.”

Listen- it is amazing to want to connect with your neighbors and teach them about Jesus. Have them over every week if you can, have a Bible study, have a prayer group, get a group of neighbors to go on walks and pray over your neighborhoods.

But do not look someone in the face and tell them that your reason for celebrating Halloween is so you can build community with your neighbors and show them the love of Christ. You have 364 other days in a year you can connect with your neighbors. And think about the statement you are making as a Spirit filled Christian who loves Jesus and says, “We don’t celebrate Halloween, we are not partaking.”

The definition of Evangelize is “to convert or seek to convert someone to Christianity.”
Is that truly what is happening when you are out there celebrating Halloween and looking and acting like everyone else?

This is one I hear a lot: “Don’t close your doors and turn off your lights, be the light” how are you being the light by literally doing exactly what everyone else is doing?

Ephesians 5:6-11 says,
6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. 7 Therefore do not be partakers with them; 8 for you were formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children of Light 9 (for the fruit of the Light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth), 10 trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. 11 Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them;

Do you see how manipulative it is to try and make other Christians feel bad for choosing to not celebrate Halloween by using the rebuttal, “don’t turn off your front porch light and hide, be the light?” We can see clearly in these passages: by not partaking in darkness is what keeps us in the light. When you act exactly like everyone else while participating in something that is not good, righteous or true- how is that being “the light”?

The body of Christ needs to stop being deceived by the culture, but the Church also needs to stop partaking in the deceiving by using guilt to shame other Christians when they choose not to be a part of Halloween.

Deuteronomy 18:9-12 says,
“When you enter the land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not learn to imitate the detestable things of those nations. There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. For whoever does these things is detestable to the Lord; and because of these detestable things the Lord your God will drive them out before you.”

This verse clearly shows us that these things, all things that are a part of Halloween: are detestable to the Lord.

Why would anyone who is a Child of God watch, listen, read, or partake in any celebrations that involve any of this?

I want to urge you to take this topic to the Lord and ask Him what He thinks about it. Let the Holy Spirit guide you, be open to His voice.

The reality is, it is not about my opinion or your opinion, it is about the Truth of God’s Word. If you call yourself a born again Christian then you have to lay aside your own wants, desires, habits and customs, and seek His perspective on everything.

Ephesians 5:11 says, "Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them."

Take NO part. If there is any part of Halloween that you see as unfruitful or a work of darkness, the Word of God tells you to “take no part”. So even if you consider dressing your children up and getting candy as no big deal, ask yourself: is this taking part in any way?
The Lord wants us to take no part in any activity of darkness or evil.

"What fellowship has light with darkness?"
2 Corinthians 6:14

Church, we know the world is getting darker. It is time for God’s people to stand firm in the light of His Truth, to be a beacon of hope in the midst of the darkness. To stand firmly against the works of darkness.

Take inventory of your life, allow the Lord to speak to you on things you may be holding onto that are not profiting you. Ask Him to give you his opinion on Halloween, and if He wants you celebrating it or not. If He is Lord of your life, then He has a say over your whole life: are you willing to listen?

“Be sober [well balanced and self-disciplined], be alert and cautious at all times. That enemy of yours, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion [fiercely hungry], seeking someone to devour.”
1 Peter 5:8