However, this same kind of attitude ended up by creating a mess in Christianity during its early days. When Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire there were many, many pagans that were compelled to become Christians. Thinking that the incorporation of some pagan rituals and traditions into Christianity would ease the pagans' transition to their new religion, Christianity became polluted and contained elements that God had not desired. Hence Christmas and Easter came into existence full of pagan rituals and traditions. Even pagan holidays had been co-opted and supposedly sanitized.
But no matter what you do with a pagan holiday it remains a pagan holiday! Another example of this is the new craze of Christian yoga. What? Just ask a Hindu and you will be met with scoffing. The principles behind yoga are not Christian, they are Hindu. Christian yoga is still Hindu!
God's Word says it best.
2 Corinthians 6:15-17 (KJV)
15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
If we are to remain separate from paganism and pleasing to God we have no business trying to sanitize Halloween into a Harvest Party or its traditions into Christian traditions. There can be no compromises!!
