I was watching a show on the History Channel last week, and ran across something I had not heard of before - the Lollards. The Lollards were a religious movement, generally described as followers of Wyckliffe, who had first translated the Bible into English. After reading up on them, I was struck by the similarities between them and us, less the obvious differences between a religious movement and a secular one. I've cut some lines from a description of them from Wikipedia. Consider:
Its demands were primarily for reform of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Our demands are for a reform of all levels of government
...believing that religious power and authority came through piety (read - individual) and not through the Church hierarchy
- we believe that power and authority comes from the individual and not through gummint bureaucracy
Similarly, Lollardy emphasized the authority of the Scriptures over the authority of priests.
- we believe in the authority of the Constitution and not the authority of judges who invent "rights" and make the law up as they go
By the mid-15th century the term lollard had come to mean a 'heretic' in general.
- 'nuff said, we're pretty much heretics when it comes to modern interpretations of rights in general and guns specifically
the Lollards had no central belief system and no official doctrine. Likewise, being a decentralized movement, Lollardy neither had nor proposed any singular authority. The movement associated itself with many different ideas, but individual Lollards did not necessarily have to agree with every tenet.
- we believe in the right of the individual to have any thoughts they wish, and state their opinions as they see fit, show respect to each other even in disagreement; all in the name of the Second Amendment
My thought for the morning....
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