05/31/2026
In the prelude to WW1, the evangelist Billy Sunday went around saying pugnaciously “If you flip Hell upside down, on the bottom you will see the tag, made in Germany!” He and other evangelists characterized the war as a campaign against an army of barbaric blood drinking demons. In hindsight that was ridiculous. Germany was the birthplace of Protestantism! But we should be careful not to fall into the same political foolishness today.