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cloud over the ecclesiastical thinking and action of more or less
every course taken by the German Church." Dietrich Bonhoeffer,
Protestant anti-Nazism's greatest martyr, likewise blamed German
Protestants' reluctance to defy Nazism on a fatal humility before
the secular power, such that when the regime gave evil orders,
Germans obeyed with "an irresponsible unscrupulousness,"
scarcely bothering to consult their consciences. Yet if they considered defiance, those same consciences awoke into "an agonising
scrupulosity which invariably frustrated action." The result was
always the same: submission and obedience.
These dueling interpretations create an appealing double story,
amply populated with heroes and villains. It has a great deal of
truth in it. Unfortunately, it also tells a partial and a partisan story
both of the Reformation era and, more especially, of its legacy
since. By dividing the world into "good" rebellious Protestants
and "bad" tyrannical ones, it bolsters modern myths while failing
to understand a crucial feature of Protestantism's political impact.
It not only misses a large part of what the Reformation was about
but also misunderstands a large part of how it is shaping the
world in our own times.

Politics not the highest priority
At worst, the leading interpretations can seem constructed in
order to distract us from a point that ought to be inescapable:
Protestantism is not, in any of its forms, a political movement. It
is about God, and it is about human salvation. The centrality of
those spiritual concerns has often been exasperating to secular
politicians who want to make Protestants their allies and are
frustrated by all the wearisome Jesus-talk, but it is unavoidable.
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