2024-10-16 18:20:00
When I read this I couldn’t believe my eyes: in the USA violent “Christian” nationalists quote the anti-fascist theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was executed by the SS on April 9, 1945 for “treason” in Flossenbürg concentration camp. I had this here is a man a grave, now he would turn inside it.
I know this not only from confirmation lessons, but also from GDR school lessons: Bonhoeffer, once ordained as a pastor in Berlin‘s St. Matthäuskirche, was Christian courage personified. The Protestant fought for justice and charity, especially towards the weakest. And so he exposed himself to Hitler and his henchmen. They had already had him on the list for some time: since 1930 he had been wary of Christian nationalism. The Nazi killing machine annihilated his active resistance. His sermons, his writings, his consoling poems – “Wonderfully sheltered by the good powers…” but they remain a warning in a world that is once again full of hatred and violence.
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