Catholic Church = “We need not shrink from admitting that candles, like incense and lustral water, were commonly employed in pagan worship and the rites paid to the dead. But the Church from a very early period took them into her service,
Catholic Church = “When we give or receive Christmas gifts; or hang green wreaths in our homes and churches, how many of us know that we are probably observing pagan customs"
You were wrong
“You were wrong”
No. Candles are not paganism. I know plenty of Protestants who use them, for instance, and they would laugh in your face if you told them that candles = paganism. Seriously, it is ridiculous. I don’t laugh much as these bizarre things, however, because to me the very existence of ridiculous accusations such as candles equaling paganism shows how damaging to common sense public school education really is. It’s sad that people can so easily be deluded into falsely equating one thing with another.