Comments on: Hearing Voices #11 - Halloween

By: Chad McIntosh

Chad McIntosh — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 05:14:46 +0000

Haha.

By: Christian

Christian — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 01:47:04 +0000

Tim clearly said that I said a lot without saying anything. And I agreed. And then I said, I was just trying to be antogonistic, or something like that. I was having fun. Granted, it was at the expense of making the podcast interesting or meaningful. But that’s besides the point, we don’t really care about our listeners. That should be obvious from the fact that we keep making these.

In the end, I concluded that like every holiday, it can be good or it can be bad. Kind of like podcasts. But we meant well.

…or did we?

By: Chad McIntosh

Chad McIntosh — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 06:47:51 +0000

My critigue of the podcast:

Addressing the question: Should christians celebrate Halloween”

1) Christian, as Tim put it, said a lot without really saying anything at all. I never really heard any reasons for why Christians shouldn’t participate in Halloween.

2) Tim didn’t say much at all for why it isn’t wrong.

My own two cents: Celebrating halloween is neither overarchingly wrong nor right from a Christian vantage. It boils down to the reasons why we (Christian and non Christian) participate. There are wrong reasons and there are innocent reasons, which could be considered right. What Halloween has become, regardless of its origin, is by and large an innocent festivity I see no reason not to enjoy.