At no point in my entire heathen life (The Romans never invaded my ancestral country, so we didn't live in their districts) have I ever given a hoot about whether pagan holidays had been "stolen" by Christians.
I just don't care. 
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it's interesting to me as an exercise in genealogy of memes. Is that memeology? "Hijacked" is a silly way to phrase it. Obviously there was a large degree of assimilation and transformation in both directions.
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Exactly. You can trace some current neo-pagan traditions back from Thelema and Golden Dawn to Ceremonial Magicians to Kabbalists to devout Jews and Christians.
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the Victorian era occultists were very self-consciously doing tradition blending. Like a proof-of-concept experiment to establish that that's pretty much just the natural way this stuff works anyway.
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obsessions with doctrinal purity come generations later when the pressing concerns are basically factional in-fighting rather than the original spiritual innovations. that's when it goes to shit and you get schisms and inquisitions.
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Yee-up. I haven't nosed around for a while, but I imagine that the YouTube Witch Wars are still in the tire-fire stage. It's honestly embarrassing.
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