Dark, Wanton and Witchy

The Battle Between Halloween and Reformation Day

Launched on October 31, 1517, the Protestant Reformation broke not just with the Catholic Church but with all that’s dark and demonic, wanton and witchy. […] By a congruence of the calendar, it was on the final day of that month nearly a century and a half before — Halloween of 1517 — when Martin Luther made the protest that marked the symbolic beginning of the Protestant Reformation. Among Lutherans and the Reformed churches, mainline Protestants and evangelicals, that day marks the separation from the papacy, the supposed return to scripture and faith, the rejection of superstition and idolatry.

 

Ed Simon@hyperallergic.com

Goose Steps

Oh Trump’s a nazi, you’re a nazi, I’m a nazi too!
Elect the führer/chancellor: the righteous thing to do.
He’s got fantastic plans for us, like jobs and close the border.
He’ll stop those endless foreign wars. I’m down with Trump’s New Order.

Neurotic whiners may despise this dawning glorious day;
They might mistake it for the night and fight it all the way.
Well, let them disembark the train… and call us names again.
We’re used to childish temper-tantrums. Christ is King. Amen.

Of course, they may miscount those votes, then stir up revolution.
Or astroturf a civil war, their desperate solution.
But what would you expect from those who can’t tell girls from boys…
Or light from dark or truth from lies or music from foul noise?

So let them whine and plot and seethe. They’ve done this act before.
We racist nazis know their brand. Vote TRUMP. Then vote some more.
And if the minions skew results—well, God’s still on His throne.
The U.S. gets what she deserves when Truth gets overthrown.