Many of the holidays we have today like Christmas and New years are based in part around former Pagan Celebrations. No holiday is bad. Holidays are times of celebration and family gatherings.
That depends on which holiday and which group of pagans you are asking about.
No it is not, it is just a holiday representing his death.
Saturnalia was a Roman festival dedicated to the agricultural god Saturn. It was celebrated by the ancient Romans as a time of feasting, gift-giving, and role reversals. Today, Saturnalia is not widely celebrated as a religious holiday by any specific modern religion.
Almost all holidays we celebrate today are Pagan based. Easter is based on the pagan holiday Eostre or Ostara. These holidays are pagan fertility holidays. The eggs and "Easter bunny" of the Christian Easter come from the pagan use of them as fertility symbols.
No, pagans like myself do not consider valentines day a holiday.
One will find that the commonly known holiday all around the world, Christmas replaced the pagan Scandinavian holiday JÃ_l. The holiday merged to become "Noel", which originates from the Old French word "noël" or "naël".
Halloween
Today the holiday known as Samhain is celebrated as Halloween in the United States. It's a watered down, commercialized evolution of the old pagan holiday.
the Pope declared dec. 25th as the day of Christ's birth to coincide with the pagan holiday Yule.
Halloween started in Irland as a pagan holiday ,so it is celtic.
Samhain is the Pagan Holiday that either occurs on the same day as Halloween (Oct. 31) or the day therafter (Nov. 1) or both.
Nothing special. Since Christmas is not a Christian holiday but a pagan one rather.