Nonsense. It denies the reality of what Halloween actually is in the popular culture and rationalizes complicity with the actual paganism of popular culture. If you deny the evil reality of popular culture then you can rationalize your cowardice in failing to fight it. The article also fails to address the long and varied history of syncretism in Roman Catholicism and the possibility that Roman Catholicism in Ireland adopted certain Celtic or Druidic practices in an effort to be seeker friendly to the local pagans. Putting a holy name on pagan practices does not make the practices holy. Do you really think all the Halloween nonsense you see taking place before your very eyes in the present United States brings glory to God? It does not and Christians should not be accommodating and/or facilitating the glorification and trivialization of evil that celebration of Halloween in the United States in actual fact communicates.