PODCAST: How Should Christians Think About Halloween?

By Christianity Still Makes Sense | 27m
Published in November of 2021

SUMMARY: If you didn’t already know, the origins of Halloween are not cut and dry. As a result, pastor Bobby Conway says it is up to the Christian conscience on whether to participate in the holiday or not. Start at the 4:27 mark to get to the Halloween talk and don’t miss the discussion about watching horror movies at the end of the podcast.

KEY QUOTE: “There is no one size fits all on the foundation or the genesis of Halloween. We have to be careful that we don’t commit the genetic fallacy that we refer to in the philsophy of religion — that is to dismiss something outright because of how it started or how it originated. Just because something has a dark origin does not mean that it is perpetually dark.”

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