Halloween: Not Just for Druids Anymore

Halloween pratically guarantees candy, trick-or-treaters and women dressed like hookers.  And sometimes a Halloween Druids, All Saints Day and Satan is a popular debate.
Roughly 2000 years ago, the Celtic Pagans celebrated the New Year – Samhain on November 1. They burned crops and animals to mark the end of summer and the beginning of a long cold winter. The night before the ritual, October 31, Pagans wore costumes, probably animal fur and horns, hoping to predict their future. When Romans moved into druid lands, now known as Ireland, UK and northern France, they combined the Celtic festivals with their own.
By the seventh century, as Christianity was spreading, Pope Boniface IV declared November 1 as All Saints Day. The eve of All Saints Day was All-Hallows Eve or All-Hallowmas which eventually became Halloween. Most believed the Pope was trying to replace the Pagan holiday with a church holiday. Most likely because, until Celtic Christianity, the Celts were not affiliated with a religion.  Such devilry!
Nonetheless, it makes sense to me that Samhain threatened Judeo-Christians, as the Torah and Old Testament were written in warmer climates.  Judeo-Christians evolved from Israel not from long harsh winters which were often affiliated with death and ruined crops.  I doubt orignal Israeli’s danced around a fire wearing animal fur and hats to keep warm.  So were Pagans really evil?  Or were they just victims of losing loved ones to harsh winter weather?