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That's all I'm doing is dressing up. I think it's alright to celebrate Halloween if you be careful what you dress up as and if you don't believe in all the Halloween superstitions, then it's fine.

there is nothing wrong with celebrating halloween and i'm glad no one has dissed my country's traditional holiday.

I think there is nothing wrong with celebrating Halloween. I mean even if it were to be deemed a pagan holiday, it's not like we are doing anything pagan. We simply dress up (and hopefully dress up decently llike ablazed said) and go out for candy. Nothing wrong in doing that.

We don't celebrate 'HELLoween' in my house, in fact I kept my son home from school yesterday because they were having a party. jack o'lanterns, bonfires, bobbing for apples and the like are all pagan practices.

Bonfires, you say? Did you know that they also did things like grow food? In fields? And harvested it? Horrors! Suffice it to say, just because X is a pagan practice doesn't necessarily mean that X is sinful. It's a guilt by association fallacy and has about as much merit as the argument that vegetarianism is evil because Hitler didn't eat meat. Jack-o'-lanterns (whose folkloric origins postdate pagan Ireland, by the way), bobbing for apples, dressing in costumes and such may have roots in pagan traditions, but in this day and age they're so separated from whatever religious overtones they may once have had that calling them 'pagan' makes about as much sense as calling American pizza 'Italian'.
But then again, some of us have an easier time existing in a culturally pluralistic society than others. As far as I'm concerned, there's not much difference between a Christian keeping his kid out of school because of the un-Godly horror that is bobbing for apples and a Muslim fanatic in Iraq stopping a motorist because the fact that he's got a spare tire in his car proves that he has insufficient faith that God will protect him from flats. But we do live in a free country, so far be it from me to criticize your inability to interface with practices that don't comport with your narrow understanding of right and wrong.

Halloween is perfectly fine. Your not placing a false idol before God, your not killing, etc. your simply going to homes saying "trick or treat" and earning candy.

while yes halloween is based of of an old druid celibration of the dead. it is nothing like it used to be. it have become to commercialized (just like everything else) and it really has lost it's meaning. especially since there arn't that many ppl who are practicing druids anymore. so really i don't think it is all that bad to celebrate anymore if your just having fun with it and doing the whole dressing up and trick-or-treating.