{"id":52258,"date":"2017-09-22T10:02:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T15:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/\/us\/?p=52258"},"modified":"2017-09-22T10:02:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T15:02:13","slug":"luther-idea-changed-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.banneroftruth.org\/us\/resources\/articles\/2017\/luther-idea-changed-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Luther: The Idea That Changed the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PBS recently aired a documentary about Martin Luther which is available to view from on their website until September 27th (link at the bottom of the page).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<div class=\"container content-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"row-fluid\">\n<div class=\"span8 page-content\">\n<div class=\"text-plugin clearfix box\">\n<blockquote><p>The year 2017 marks the 500th anniversary of one on the most important\u00a0events in Western civilization: the birth of an idea that continues to shape the life of every American today.<\/p>\n<p>In 1517, power was in the hands of the few, thought was controlled by the chosen, and common people lived lives without hope. On October 31\u00a0of that year, a penniless monk named Martin Luther sparked the revolution that would change everything.<\/p>\n<p>He had no army. In fact, he preached nonviolence so powerfully that \u2014 400\u00a0years later \u2014 Michael King would change his name to Martin Luther King\u00a0to show solidarity with the original movement.<\/p>\n<p>This movement, the Protestant Reformation, changed Western culture at its core, sparking the drive toward individualism, freedom of religion, women&#8217;s rights, separation of church and state, and even free public education. Without the Reformation, there would have been no pilgrims, no Puritans, and no America in the way we know it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/program\/martin-luther-idea-changed-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You can watch\u00a0<em>Martin Luther: The Idea That Changed the World<\/em> by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PBS recently aired a documentary about Martin Luther which is available to view from on their website until September 27th (link at the bottom of the page). * * * The year 2017 marks the 500th anniversary of one on the most important\u00a0events in Western civilization: the birth of an idea that continues to shape [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"resource-author":[505],"topic":[6076],"class_list":["post-52258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","resource-author-thomas-geoff","topic-reformer-biography"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Luther: The Idea That Changed the World &#8211; 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