Seeing that the Catholics have done their level best to eradicate all Pagan religions, usually with violence, naturally the pope would condemn it. Actually Halloween, or Samhain to give it its proper title, has been around much longer than Christianity. People celebrate it these days in much the same way they celebrate Christmas, that is to say that they know nothing of the roots of the festival but enjoy the party. And there's nothing wrong with that.

Well everyone was always gonna disagree on this.

I think if people want to have fun on Halloween, whether they're Pagans or they just enjoy the occasion, I don't see a problem. The church just likes to suck the joy out of everything.

that is nonsense naturally. but i do think that no one is celebrating the dark side at Halloween it is just an excuse to have fun for children and people who are looking to find partners (ie teenagers).

Anything that you don't comprehend is nonsense, it seems. I'm not sure what you mean by the "dark side". I celebrate Samhain every year and there's nothing dark about it. I suppose that's a big difference difference between me and you; I am happy for people to celebrate their own particular religion, whereas you ridicule anything you don't understand. It's a shame.

such ******s they are
''oh were right were always right people should do what we say''
their as bad as hitler for **** sake
well minus the killings

Minus the killings???? Have you not heard of the Crucades!!!!!

Why did they need to condemn it?
Off course it's ant-christian. It's a pagan festival.
But aren't all christian feasts built upon pagan festivals anyways?
What next?
Condenming Christmas for being anti-chrisitan?
lol!

not built upon but there to rival and eclipse -which is precisely what they did

Yeah, that's what you think. The saddest sight I see on a Sunday is the handful of elderly people wandering into the local chilly church so they can praise their God by singing songs about what terrible people they are. "Have mercy on us, miserable offenders". LOL... Actually most of them are probably not sinners at all, but good people. Meanwhile Pagans celebrate everything, nature, women, sex... all the stuff Christians tut-tut and get lemon-faced about.

Christianity tried to crush Paganism through force, using violence and torture you couldn't imagine, and could never justify if you could. But it failed. There are more people following Pagan traditions now than at any other time in history. Christianity is dwindling meanwhile, probably because people are wising up. Especially as the church seems to be represented sometimes by people like Leather Trumpet, who spout archaic poppycock and insult other religions. That's not a way to get people to convert to your way of thinking; it just makes people think you're blinkered and intolerant.

Whilst practising Christians have been in decline in some Western countries, there has been a recent surge in 'membership' in parts of the West, and in the East the numbers who are becoming new Christians daily is astronomical. There are estimated now nearly 100 million Christians in China (compared with just 5,000 in the 1960s) and in South Korea, churches regularly have tens of thousands of members each. In one church, the Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul, there are over 800,000 members who meet each Sunday in several sittings in a vast hall. It is difficult to give a definite answer to the actual number of Christians in the world (estimates range from 2 - 3 billion), Christianity remains the most dominant of the world religions, and is still growing at an astonishing rate.