Trick or Treating?

It's sad, a holiday based on spending money to set up a costume, buying your own candy to give away at your house as you send your young children out in the dark to go knock on strangers doors asking for candy. At a younger age even, my mind has always thought of a better way for these pagans to do this. Why waste all the money on costumes, candy to give away, and do all this risking the safety of your young children? Why wouldn't they just go buy the kid 50 dollars worth of candy and some toothpaste? Not to mention they wouldn't have to waste all their extra energy walking throughout an entire neighborhood. The reality is that people really have their priorities messed up. Over the past 4 years, 540 kids have died from 4-10 P.M. on Halloween. You would think this would ring a bell in parent's heads but instead these facts are ignored. This holiday held so dear by the world is truly frightening. I post this because of an employee at Target asking me why I don't celebrate Halloween. After this awakening she said she wasn't sure if she even felt safe with her kids going in this door-to-door spree with the goal of being scared and at the same time receiving treats from these unknown figures. Sometimes it appears that just some of the truth behind these pagan rituals can prove as a witness.