Why do some Xtians try to ban Halloween for being a pagan holiday?
Halloween is shortened from All Hallows’ Evening which has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain a celebration of the end of the harvest. But it was a day on which many northern European Pagan traditions or religious festivals were celebrated!! Two Popes Gregory III and Gregory IV moved the old All Saints’ Day from May 13 itself the date of a pagan holiday to try to hijack the pagan festival. Both christmas and Easter are entirely pagan!!! It is nothing to do with either Christianity or Islam but it does have it’s origins in the midwinter festival and many other basically pagan rites but since much of it is a celebration of nature rather than religion everyone should be able to enjoy it and be happy together despite religion!! The ancient European pagans celebrated the midwinter festival and a number of other festivals long before Christianity ever existed! Babylonians celebrated the feast of the Son of Isis with gluttonous eating and drinking, and gift giving and the g
