Here are a couple holiday ideas for you to consider when you can get a moment’s peace tonight.
Professor Collin Garbarino notes the connection Halloween has to Celtic paganism is largely, if not entirely, speculation. “The Celts didn’t write stuff down, and the Romans who did write stuff down didn’t give us much reliable information about the Celts or their religion.” But we do have a solid record of All Hallow’s Eve and All Saints’ Day.
The Protestant Reformation had political ramifications as well as religious ones, notes Professor Adam Carrington. Sola Scriptura supported the rule of the written law and public education so everyone could read the Bible for themselves. “The equality of human beings before God naturally bolstered ideas of human equality in the political realm. This enhanced arguments that the people should be the ultimate human authority since no person was born, or otherwise made by God, superior to another.”
Stay safe out there.
And also this artwork of Nazgul by Anato Finnstark.