According to tradition, it was on October 31st, 1517, that a priest named Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the church in Wittenberg, Germany, and began the Protestant Reformation. The movement gave Europe Christian sects outside the supervision of the Pope, a doctrine of salvation by faith alone, and Bibles in common languages. In short, the idea of religious freedom was born out of the Reformation. But as the 500th anniversary of his protest approaches, you might be surprised to learn t...