Religious Liberty is not the loss of religious power, as some in the USCCB believe. It is something to get killed for. The Catholic Church now adapts more than witnesses. For the Evangelicals, persecution may pull them out of the belief that they will be raptured rather than face persecution, which was an ironic belief in a Church that prizes martyrdom. Of course, martyrdom did nothing for the Church in Japan when it was closed to foreigners. The Church disappeared.