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==Liberal redefinitions==
Historically, the white banner emblazoned with a rainbow was used by the 16th-century [[German]] [[heretical]] movement of [[revolution]]ary Thomas Münzer who preferred the illuminism of an interior revelation to the written [[Revelation]] and combined a streak of madness and considerable pride with real knowledge.<ref>{{cite book |title=A History of Protestantism: I.The Reformation |author=Émile G. Léonard |publisher=Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd. |year=1965 |pages=100, 101 |url=http://books.google.com/books?ei=v7DvVIOSHIP8UqiwgsAN&id=ozEsAQAAMAAJ&dq=bibliogroup:"A+History+of+Protestantism"&q=rainbow&hl=no&redir_esc=y }}</ref> When [[East Germany]] was still [[Communist]], Münzer was perceived by [[Marxist]] history as a hero, kind of secular saint who led the poor to class revolution and was a martyr to the cause of the working classes on their longer move towards the eventual [[proletarian]] state.<ref>{{cite web |author=Paul Boyer |title=Who was Thomas Muentzer? |publisher=http://www.pbs.org |url=http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/apocalypse/explanation/muentzer.html |quote=Muentzer's flag had a rainbow on it, harkening back to the rainbow that Noah was given, the covenant with God. |accessdate= February 27, 2015}}</ref> In his 1926 essay ''“The Next Heresy”'', [[Gilbert Keith Chesterton]] expressed his opinion that the "madness of tomorrow" will have to do with an attack on sexual morality.<ref>{{cite web
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