Pagan Influence On Christianity

Pagans believe that the wandering spirits of the dead would return to their original homes in order to placate these spirits it was believed that you must feed them and provide them with shelter for the night otherwise you are in danger of harm hence the modern practice of Trick or Treat, bobbing for apples the hollowing out and lighting of pumpkins, cats, ghosts, goblins, death and a preoccupation with satanic paraphernalia on October 31st as filtered down from the ancient Scottish, Irish and Celtic custom surrounding samhain.
How did it ever become associated with Christianity? In the early 6th and 7th centuries the Catholic Church made it a practice to replace all pagan holidays with Christian celebrations in order to accommodate those
they conquered basically they "Christianized" the pagan holidays consequently All Saints Day was wedded to the druid pagan festival of the dead by Pope Boniface the fourth I can already hear you say but many of our Christian holidays have elements of pagan practices does that mean we shouldn't celebrate Christmas? Easter? Not necessarily because even though we're witnessing a resurgence of paganism in our country as it drifts more and more into New Age philosophy in just about every case the versions of all these other holidays have stopped and the pagan connotations have pretty much ceased ask anybody why we celebrate Christmas why do you think most people are going to say? The birth of Christ or Santa Claus might come into the mix but almost nobody associates Christmas with the pagan celebration of saturnalia which is where it began. Not so with Halloween Halloween is unique in that it has always attained it's association with worshipping and communing with the dead, honoring of Satan, obsession of evil spirits, in recent years the revival of animal sacrifices and even humans!