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The Cries of the Persecuted January/February 2017 Vol. 112, No. 1 A MAGAZINE OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM HACKSAW RIDGE THE LEGACY OF LUTHER 500 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2017® refor mation years THE CRIES OF THE PERSECUTED A child, rescued from Boko Haram in Sambisa forest, at a clinic at the Internally Displaced People’s camp in Yola, Nigeria. EDITORIAL ard to believe that it’s been 500 now questions, out of compliance danger of being overrun by a continu- years since the Reformation! Or with its own principles, with the holy ing series of attacks from the Muslim Hat least since the central, defin- writings which should have been its Ottoman Turks. At the time the Otto- ing acts of Martin Luther, who became charter, and so intent on power that it mans had a powerful navy and the the poster boy for a whole phenom- seldom hesitated to set the civil pow- largest army in Europe. Istanbul, its BACK TO enon. The years have simply flown by! ers upon its enemies. Perhaps Luther capital (captured from the Byzantine Feels like time travel to me; although was naive or perhaps the Roman Christians in 1453) was five times THE FUTURE I only remember back to around the church was not as cognizant of the larger than Paris. A Frankish leader middle of the last century, when Ref- optics of a situation as it is today. I named Charles Martel had previously ormation Consciousness was already think the story was mostly driven by fought back their invasion of France. showing age-related cognitive decay. the bigger picture. They would later lay siege to Vienna. A little like kindly President Reagan Martin Luther would likely have It was a time of dismay.The attacks before Senate committees, admitting been burned as a salutary lesson to accelerated, and from 1520 to 1565 to not remembering! We loved him other dissidents but for two central seemed unstoppable. But it was not for the clever way he invoked memory realities. till the Long War of 1593-1606 that loss; not realising till years later that First, the Reformation itself was the Austrian Hapsburgs finally ended he had indeed forgotten--in fact, may actually already well underway. the threat. No wonder that the Holy have even forgotten why what he had Luther was preceded by figures like Roman Emperor Charles V hesitated forgotten was important. All I know is Wycliffe in England and Jan Hus in to force the Elector of Saxony to give that while the American electorate of Bohemia; both priest-theologians. up Luther! No wonder he was amena- the Kennedy era had enough memory The old order was rapidly changing. A ble to the German princes presenting of the Reformation to fuel consider- medieval social structure had largely the Augsburg Confession at the Diet able public angst at the possibility given way to a population unbound in 1530; an event which confirmed of a president who might fall into from liege lords; and indeed a middle the Reformation in Germany. pre-Reformation mode and allow class of professionals and merchants If you know history, it makes “prelate” or “minister” to tell him “how was blossoming. The Renaissance had perfect sense that shortly after the to act” (Kennedy’s words in opposing created a thirst for new knowledge Ottoman threat abated the conflicts that danger), [deep breath here; long and implanted a humanistic idealism. between newly Protestant areas and sentence] it was Reagan who drifted This social tinder was ignited by the the older Catholic ones erupted into backwards in appointing an ambas- development of the Gutenberg Press a broad-based European war, which sador to the Vatican. So much for the in 1440 and the facility of moveable lasted from 1618 till 1648. Many principle of Church-State separation type, which led to an explosion of factors contributed to this, not least and a Protestant sensibility! reading and learning. For example, of all the Counter-Reformation, which Martin Luther, let’s not forget, was by 1500 there were already 30 million was codified toward the end of the a priest-theologian at a time when books in circulation; a good many of religious wars by the acts which came for Europe there was only one church, them Bibles. Church opposition to out of the Council of Trent in 1545. and an attempt, at least, to have independent Bible study probably One should never understate the one political power, which worked only increased the peoples’ desire to Thirty Years of religious warfare in sword-hand in glove with the church. find out what the oracles actually Europe, which killed 8 million persons Although, truth be told, the Holy required. There was much sympathy and led to the destruction of the agri- Roman Empire of Luther’s day was, as for Luther and his fellow “Reformers,” cultural system and systemic famine. the old saw goes, “not quite holy nor to use the term now used by both Finally, the warring parties met and Roman.” It was a last attempt to recre- Catholics and Protestants (although settled at the peace of Wesphalia ate the Imperial glory of the Roman at the time “Heretic” was the official in 1648. A total of 109 delegations Empire: which as it decayed and was appellation!) entered the discussions and out of the despoiled by Germanic tribes had Second, one cannot discount the peace came essentially the nations passed its prerogatives to an increas- role of the existential threat facing of Europe (tweaked a little more by ingly politicized Roman church. Western Europe. For most of the two world wars) and the modern Martin Luther originally hoped to 15th Century, Western Europe was in nation-state and the idea of national reform a church which was, no-one sovereignty. 2 LIBERTY® January/February 2017 IN THIS ISSUE 500 refor mation years For Desmond Doss his conscience was supreme. No state power could compel him otherwise. P8 HACKSAW RIDGE THE CRIES OF AND THE THE LEGACY 12 | THE WANDERING DAY THE PERSECUTED RELIGIOUS NUT OF LUTHER 4 8 18 22 | A CATALYST OF REFORM A new film celebrates The impact of the faith under fire. Reformation 500 years later. 29 | WHERE THE RUBBER MEETS THE ROAD Don’t tell me the Reformation was is crumbling. Failed states, drone nation seeks alliances that will ever unimportant or is inconsequential attacks that see noborders and accept more quickly undo its separation of DECLARATION today! no jurisdiction, preemptive wars, church and state, and perhaps lead of One of the enduring myths in the nation-building passing itself off as to a rethink of its liberal Biblical, rinciples United States is that it is somehow police action, terrorists who swallow Protestant heritage of freedom for all. TheP God-given right of religious liberty is structurally a Christian nation. It is whole states and subsume them into ‘Tis certain that an awareness of his- best exercised when church and state are a myth that ignores the Constitu- self-styled caliphates, nations driven tory is shrinking, along with the once separate. tion and the fact of “a new secular to chaos by central bankers and, not Bible-wielding middle class who after Government is God’s agency to protect order.” But a larger truth lies behind least, multinational entities who owe the Second Great Awakening of the individual rights and to conduct this assumption. A great many of no loyalty and can make or break mid 1800s so surely steered a nation civil affairs; in exercising these responsibilities, officials are entitled to the settlements that formed it were weak states. toward a true post-slavery freedom. respect and cooperation. composed of Protestant refugees Our latest European Holy Roman Post election 2016, America Religious liberty entails freedom of seeking a land of religious freedom. A Empire is hot-handing its currency, looks to be changing rapidly. We see conscience: to worship or not to worship; large part of the spirit that animated while poking at a bear which remem- “new men...other minds,” to quote to profess, practice, and promulgate the move to separate from England bers an even older schism than the Tennyson. We need to pray that the religious beliefs, or to change them. In came from the First Great Awakening one the Reformation produced. And Reformation remains in our DNA, and exercising these rights, however, one must respect the equivalent rights of of the 1730s and 1740s, which stirred Brexit reminds us that among other that our future is not backwards. all others. Protestant sensibilities. And Protes- incompatibilities Protestant England Attempts to unite church and state tantism with its best characteristics was a poor fit. are opposed to the interests of each, long motivated the global mission Again Islam frightens the West subversive of human rights, and sense and political worldview of this with attacks on Christian communities potentially persecuting in character; to oppose union, lawfully and honorably, still new republic. in the Middle East, jihadi behead- is not only the citizen’s duty but the Which brings me to a sort of ings, a tidal wave of refugees and the Lincoln E. Steed, Editor essence of the golden rule–to treat DeLorean moment. promise of more sleeper-cell eruptions Liberty magazine others as one wishes to be treated. Today!? in cities from Paris to New York. Please address letters to the editor to The very idea of the nation state And Protestant America? Appar- [email protected] ently forgetful of its heritage, a LIBERTY® January/February 2017 3 More than 250 people attended the 2016 International Religious Liberty Summit, held May 24, 2016, at the Newseum’s Religious Freedom Center in downtown Washington, D.C.
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