Originally posted by DaTruth
The Christian Church was unable to get the people to stop celebrating this holiday, so they simply sprinkled a little holy water on it and gave it new names, as they did with other Paleopagan holidays and customs. This was a form of calendrical imperialism, co-opting Paleopagan sacred times, as they had Paleopagan sacred places (most if not all of the great cathedrals of Europe were built on top of earlier Paleopagan shrines and sacred groves). So when Fundamentalists come to your local school board and try to get Halloween removed from the public schools because “it’s a Pagan holiday,” they are perfectly correct.
Well said, Truth. And let us not forget christmas - originally the birthdate of mithras, another "dying god." In fact the catholic, rather "universal," church is extremely efficient in assimilating religions. Such efficiency is only a function of command and control of the masses, even today.

