Well ya but, let's not throw the baby out with the bath water. Really evil hearted people have been tricking us. Catholicism means "Universal Church" and was created by the Roman Government to bring all of their cultures religions into one that everyone could (had to) follow. In this religion were placed traditions and overlapping symbolism from many prominent belief systems of their day.

None of the belief systems are inherently bad, paganism just means a belief system that is not a major belief system, turns out... just looked it up.... But even classical "paganism" like witchcraft isn't bad or evil. Just another boogeyman.