Today is Armistice Day, a day for celebrating the only thing worth celebrating about war: when it's over.
Today's a good day to go read about The Christmas Truce. Maybe even view Joyeux Noël.
More great viewing today is this amazing cartoon from 1939: Peace on Earth. Or its 1955 remake, Good Will to Men. Perhaps those who lived through the disastrous great wars of the twentieth century did not worship warfare as we are sometimes led to believe.
Today is also St. Martin's Day, honoring Martin of Tours, who refused to continue to fight in Caesar's army after he became a Christian. Martin later opposed execution as a punishment for heresy, rightly recognizing that Christians could not support using the state to punish religious error.
2015-11-11
Armistice Day / St. Martin's Day
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