Why do christians celebrate pagan festivals like halloween?
Halloween was originally a Christian festival. The name Hallow-een is derived from ‘All Hallows Eve’ (all Souls/all Saints) it was appropriated by paganism, just like Christmas. But we still get the usual lies trotted out on a regular basis that Christianity celebrates pagan feasts. The pagan festival of the “Birth of the Unconquered Son” instituted by the Roman Emperor Aurelian on 25 December 274, was almost certainly an attempt to create a pagan alternative to a date that was already of some significance to Roman Christians. Thus the “pagan origins of Christmas” is a myth without historical substance. The idea that the date was taken from the pagans goes back to two scholars from the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Paul Ernst Jablonski, a German Protestant, wished to show that the celebration of Christ’s birth on December 25th was one of the many “paganizations” of Christianity that the Church of the fourth century embraced, as one of many “degenerations” that transf
