As if that wasn’t bad enough, she explained, a “demon DJ” would be in attendance — one who planned to do use his electro-magic dubstepping wizardry to “encourage people to dance.”

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“I know my son is a good boy, and he will be disappointed if I don’t let him go,” she wrote. “How can I make him understand that keeping him away is the best thing for him?”

The answer, according the anti-Halloween crusader known as the Rev. Pat Roberston, is simple: “Tell him the truth.”

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“Explain to him who the devil is,” Robertson said on his program, “The 700 Club.” “Explain to him the devil wants to destroy you. The devil seeks who he may devour. He’s out to kill you and he’s going to put everything nice in your way that’s going to seem like fun.”

“The answer is, mother, don’t let you babies to grow up to be demon worshipers, if I can quote from Willie Nelson,” he added. “Don’t let them do it. That’s just the way it is.”

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This is hardly the first time that the conservative televangelist has attacked Halloween. The 86-year-old former Southern Baptist minister — who once blamed the 2010 Haitian earthquake on a “pact to the devil” — adds new verses to his epic rant against Oct. 31 almost every year.

“That’s the day when millions of children and adults will be dressing up as devils, witches, and goblins … to celebrate Satan,” Robertson said on “The 700 Club” in 2015. “They don’t realize what they’re doing.”

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Unlike last year’s attack on Halloween, Robertson recently offered a solution for parents worried about the soul-corrupting holiday.

“There needs to be alternative Halloween celebrations in churches, where they have all the games and all the fun and all the nice pretty girls and all the handsome boys and all that,” he said. “They all come together and they’re praising the lord as opposed to worshiping Satan.”

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“Halloween has become a night when the devil rejoices,” he added.

Robertson is far from alone among Christian pastors who believe in encouraging alternative Halloween activities, according to a new LifeWay Research survey of 1,000 senior Protestant pastors.

The survey revealed that each Halloween, two in three Protestant pastors encourage their congregants to attend church events such as a fall festival or a judgment house.

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Half of those surveyed said they tell their church members to befriend trick-or-treaters at their doors.

The survey revealed that one in 10 pastors instruct their flock to skip Halloween altogether.

“Most pastors see Halloween as an opportunity to reach out,” says Scott McConnell, executive director of LifeWay Research. “This is a time when your neighbors literally come to your doorstep. Pastors don’t want their church members to waste that chance to make a connection or invite someone to church.”

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Although elements of Halloween may be loosely inspired by ancient pagan harvest rituals, the holiday is strongly rooted in the Christian traditions, such as the Feast of All Saints and the Feast of All Souls, according to Colorado University history professor Scott Bruce.

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“The poor people at the time of All Saints and All Souls would go from house to house to house, and there they could expect to receive an offering of food and this was called souling,” Bruce has said, noting that the food handed out was often a “wafer-like sweet.”

“In popular tradition, the giving of the soul cake was good for the soul of the giver.”

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Bruce said the consumption of a soul cake “represents a soul that will be released from purgatory.”

The professor noted that Christian Halloween traditions share a sensibility with ancient Pagan traditions, one that becomes more apparent as the natural world changes each fall.

“What pre-modern people may have shared is this sensibility that as the days got shorter and as the night encroached upon their lives, the membrane between the world of the living and the dead was thinner,” Bruce said. “This explains our modern fascination with haunting and fantastical entertainment during the days leading up to Halloween.”

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As recently as last year, Robertson referred to Halloween as “a festival for demonic spirits.”

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“All this business about goblins and jack-o-lanterns and all that all comes out of demonic rituals of the Druids and the people who lived in England at that particular time,” he said.