are symbols of fertility. As the pre-technology communities watched winter give way to spring, and watched the animals begin to reproduce, they incorporated all of this into their beliefs and rituals. And new clothes? Why not! After months of being wrapped in warm clothes due to cold weather -- when it would have been harder to wash clothing anyway -- who wouldn't be eager to get out of those smelly, smoky, sweaty wools and furs and get into some pretty cottons and linens?
Logic and common sense trump superstition every time.
Whoever wrote the above blog is probably a xtian fundamentalist who sees Satan in everything that isn't just exactly the way he thinks it ought to be -- especially anything Catholic!!!
But there are a lot just like him, and they're walking around sane as you or I. Jehovah's Witnesses, for example, do not celebrate ANY holidays -- except Easter, ironically -- because of their pagan origins. No Christmas, no Thanksgiving, no Labor Day, not even personal birthdays. They only celebrate Easter because it's when Jesus rose from the dead and that event is unique to Christianity which confirms it's the only true religion. Uh, no, it's not. 
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