There’s a famous scene in the movie, Braveheart, a 1995 film that became something of a classic among embattled Christian conservatives who liked to see our own battle with “Big Government” in the romanticized terms of a Scottish epic. Riding before the Scottish lines before the climactic Battle of Stirling, face streaked with blue war-paint, William Wallace (aka Mel Gibson) declares, “The English may take our lives, but they will never take OUR FREEDOM!”
The moment may be tinged with melodrama; still, the sentiment to which Gibson/Wallace gives voice (famously echoed in American history in Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death!” speech) is one that should not be lightly ignored.
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