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Halloween actually has its roots in Christianity, not that it matters. People should celebrate whtever they feel compelled to celebrate
No, it's the opposite. Christianity took many of its holidays from the Pagans, to get them to join Christianity. Solstice/sun celebrations have been around thousands of years more than Christianity.
There is too much to go into here about the origins and why Samhein probably wasn't Oct. 31, and how All Saints' day / All Hallows Eve is more closely related to our modern Halloween traditions, but my point was that Pagans and Wiccans (by the way, Wicca is a fairly new religion, much newer than Christianity) are not the only belief systems to have a holiday on Halloween.
But much of the Wiccan tradition is based on the four sun days, which date back in celebration at least 2000 year before Christianity was a twinkle in God's eye.
Ireland celebrated All Saints in April back in the 8th century. It didn't move to Nov 1 until a few hundred years later, and Samhain was already established way before that.