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The Killing Time Oh, Columbus! the Power to Change A MAGAZINE OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM THE KILLING TIME OH, COLUMBUS! THE POWER TO CHANGE TEMBER/OCTOBER 2009 EDITORIAL am writing this editorial while tionaries. Then during War II the castle were the ongoing dynamic of that old on vacation in France. More became the regional headquarters world. After all the ideas that created specifically it was written in the for the occupying Germans. When the United States were the same ones guest room of the chateau my wife they were expelled the Americans that led to the French revolution. It discovered on the Internet. The also made it their headquarters. All was not really so odd that Jefferson A MATTER pictures posted there did not do it half are gone now and little but the rutted had an enduring sympathy for the the justice that reality confers. I am stone flooring reminds of those times French Revolution, even after it turned OF HISTORY sitting under a high arched ceiling and of trial. on itself. looking out over computer keyboard, At breakfast we shared an There is an aspect of this dual through the high windows with the interesting discussion with a group and parallel tracking that is often inward facing shutters, and out over of Anglican priests also staying in the unremarked, even by my fellow the moat, with its lily pond surface to castle. As we went over the history of Seventh-day Adventists, who founded the deep woods that encroach on two the castle and came again to the story this magazine as a direct consequence sides of the castle. of its passage through the French of radical moves toward religious We are staying two nights here Revolution the elder priest remarked legislation in the first few years of in this time warp only a few minutes on how it was unusual for the original the twentieth century. The reality is south of Dijon in Burgundy. Yesterday, furniture to have survived those times. that the same pressures were creating "Give us a fair field after we arrived and met the count "There are two reasons given," he fissures in the public life in the Old and no favor, whose family has owned the property said." The first is that the count was a Country—England, the Mother and our faith has since the 1200s, a friend of his who is benevolent landlord and his pheasants Country, that as late as 1812 had still no cause to fear." a history professor took us on a tour of remained loyal. The second and more not accepted that her American child the many rooms. It is still elegant and probable is that he was a mason had left home. full of art and furniture from centuries and had protection." An interesting The wonderful work of William past. There are countless little oddities observation from a churchman, who of Wilberforce in outlawing slavery in the like the apparent wooden confessional course knew his history. In revolution- British Empire was of course just one boxes in the first and second floor ary France there was hatred against outgrowth of morals-based legislation chambers of the master and mistress the overbearing aristocracy and the from an increasingly empowered of the house that were in reality church, which the peasantry had come religious faction, which had high aims connecting staircases so they could to associate with their abuses; because for spiritually renewing old England. visit unobserved by staff, and the church and state/aristocracy func- Well, as we know today, it is an easy clever arrangement of the eldest son's tioned as an intertwined power elite. step from that to using the power of bedroom at the end of the hall after For the revolutionaries it was enough the state to require revival. the fathers room, so that he could not that the church hated and persecuted One of the most dynamic preach- pass easily unobserved in the night. the masons—therefore they must ers in England a century ago was Of course time has never stood be acceptable. I have always thought Charles Haddon Spurgeon; known as still here or anywhere else. The history that the same simple logic accounts "the prince of preachers"for his amaz- teacher told us how the drawbridge for much of the pervasive masonry in ing rhetoric and ability to draw huge had been replaced by a fixed bridge early Protestant America—that is, if crowds. I recently read a statement hundreds of years ago on the orders the Catholic Church was so opposed to of his that relates all too well to the of the King of France who feared the masonry, it must be acceptable. United States then—and now—as nobles' ability to resist his power. She In many ways the old world is not well as to the England of his day. told how during the French Revolution really that different from the new "I am ashamed of some Christians," sympathetic pheasants helped hide world—only older. In fact as the preached Spurgeon, "because they the castle's furniture from the revolu- new world rose to prominence it did have so much dependence on parlia- so with many of the ideas brought ment and the law of the land. Much from the old world—albeit ideas that 2 LIBERTY• SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2009 1ooTRu.st Wt 40, s 4RTERDO'\' IN THIS ISSUE There is a general consen- sus that pluralism doesn't work without civility, and a grudging admission that yes, organized religion has at times singled out unpopular minorities. I P24 RELIGIOUS LIBERTY THE KILLING TIME THE AMERICAN 20 1 OH COLUMBUS! REDEFINED 10 SENTINEL 4 14 24 1 THE POWER TO CHANGE A 1941 retrospective. Remembering those who sacrificed and the Crusade to Nationalize >> to keep church and state apart Christianity 29 1 GOOD CITIZENS good may Parliament ever do to true debate and the church response to than to quote from James Madison, religion except by mistake. As to the newfound rights of the gay com- a founding father of the American DEC', RATION getting the law of the land to touch munity. This issue of Liberty speaks Republic, author of the Bill of Rights our religion, we earnestly cry, "Hands to that in an opinion piece. No matter which include the First Amendment 7.104 how doctrinally or morally offensive freedom of religion and restraint on off! Leave us alone."Your Sunday bills The God-given right of religious liberty is best the church may find society to have state sponsorship, and the nation's and all other forms of the act-of- exercised when church and state are separate. Parliament religion seem to me to be become it is entering perilous ground fourth president. "Who does not see," all wrong. Give us a fair field and no in attempting to address it by legisla- he wrote, "that the same authority Government is God's agency to protect indi- favor, and our faith has no cause to tion. And yet at the same time the which can establish Christianity, in vidual rights and to conduct civil affairs; in fear. Christ wants no help from Caesar:' church is within its compass to press exclusion of all other religions, may exercising these responsibilities, officials are As you will read in a series begin- the state to honor it's faith profession establish with the same ease any par- entitled to respect and cooperation. ning in this issue of Liberty, a national and ability to speak to others of moral ticular sect of Christians, in exclusion Religious liberty entails freedom of Sunday bill and Christian nation absolutes. May we keep this dynamic of all other sects?" conscience: to worship or not to worship; to assumptions had everything to do alive and well and avoid the mistakes How revolutionary! profess, practice, and promulgate religious with the founding of our magazine. of the old world—mistakes that led beliefs, or to change them. In exercising We agree with Spurgeon that such not just to reformation but revolution. these rights, however, one must respect have no place in a country that truly Because the unholy union of church the equivalent rights of all others. honors religious freedom. and state ultimately is bad for both. Attempts to unite church and state are In a very real way that sense of After quoting from an English Lincoln E. Steed, Editor opposed to the interests of each, subversive true religious independence of separa- Baptist preacher, I had better end on Liberty Magazine of human rights, and potentially persecuting tion of church and state speaks even a more American note. What better in character; to oppose union, lawfully and to the more contentious of church Please address letters to the editor to honorably, is not only the citizen's duty but state issues today—the gay marriage [email protected] the essence of the golden rule—to treat others as one wishes to be treated. (OVER BY HARRY ANDERSON 0 REVIEW & HERALD PUB. ASSN. LIBERTY• SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2009 3 HOW IT WAS IN 1941. Religious Liberty {Redefined} BY GIDEON D. HAGSTOTZ ILLUSTRATION BY HARRY ANDERSON hat is liberty? It is that life without liberty is worse than death. But freedom from undue he was speaking merely of civil liberty. It must restraint; it is the sum of be remembered that religious liberty means the rights and immunities even more than civil liberty. Moreover, religious of all the citizens of an orga- liberty is not synonymous with freedom of con- nized civil community, with science. One's conscience is always free—it is provision for guaranteed pro- unfettered regardless of external conditions.
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