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#DietrichBonhoeffer

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Andy

#DietrichBonhoeffer #pastor #christian #religion #hero #heroic #nazi #ww2 #hitler #martyr #german #germany #history #lutheran #protestant #peace
There are many heroes from WWII, and whenever I come across a name I’ve never heard of, I always like to publicise it.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer - A pastor and devoted Lutheran Christian who opposed the Nazi regime and simply wanted peace. Unfortunately, this kind and heroic man paid the ultimate price for his beliefs…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich

en.wikipedia.orgDietrich Bonhoeffer - Wikipedia
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AlexanderMars

@tprophet I've seen more than a few #DietrichBonhoeffer quotes and blog posts floating around these days, and I think they perfectly encapsulate the US' descent into authoritarian madness.

It's become obvious that we are living through an age of great stupidity; the same social disorder that befell 1930s Germany has taken deep root in the US, Russia and China.

You can not rely on the US any more... not as a partner in trade, mutual defense or the rule of law.

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bhahne

@godpod And after NOT buying a Tesla each day, you can also print and put a few "You're better than Tesla!" leaflets on Teslas to ask the owners to sell!

Sell-your-Tesla leaflets available here:
sites.google.com/site/bonhoffe

PS God, when you see him again for coffee please extend my thanks to Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the namesake of my website, for his fierce resistance against the Nazi regime. He gave us all an example of how we should live.

sites.google.comBonhoffer.tv - teslatakedownTesla Takedown - San Francisco Bay Area
#TeslaTakedown#DietrichBonhoeffer
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Court Cantrell will not comply

...who twists Bonhoeffer to prop up calls for Christian nationalist violence.

Gross. And scary. (Apparently the #BonhoefferMovie is in the same vein. 😬🤢 Watch with eyes open, y'all.)

So I had to go through my manuscript and either find other sources for the same pieces of info, or cut those particular passages. All because of asshole Metaxas.

FASCISTS ARE WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS. 😫
🤬🤬🤬

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#theism
#atheism
#philosophy
#PeterRollins
#AtheismForLent
#DietrichBonhoeffer
#EricMetaxas

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Laloofah

@wdlindsy I’ve always found #DietrichBonhoeffer’s piece “On Stupidity” (one of his uncensored letters smuggled out of prison & posthumously published in 1951) thought-provoking & astute, tho highly discomforting.
For anyone unfamiliar, Bonhoeffer was a Lutheran minister imprisoned & later murdered by the Nazis for his work w/the 🇩🇪 resistance & helping ✡️ people escape. He was all too familiar with the subject matter & the nightmare results of stupidity combined with &/or exploited by evil.

Photo of Dietrich Bonhoeffer with his quote, “Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one’s prejudgment simply need not be believed — in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical — and when facts are irrefutable, they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self-satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack. For that reason, greater caution is called for when dealing with a stupid person than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous.” ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), “On Stupidity” from the book, “Letters and Papers from Prison” (uncensored letters smuggled out of prison & posthumously published in 1951)
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H. Paul Santmire

New post on my blog, Walking Thoughts: "Amerika?"
"In what respect, if at all or perhaps thoroughly, is America today becoming Amerika? My understanding of that word is my own, although Franz Kafka’s now famous use of it is in the back of my mind...The absurdity of it all! Is Amerika a word, perhaps the word, for our times?"

hpaulsantmire.net/amerika/

H. Paul Santmire · Amerika?Is Amerika our future, then, emerging now right before our very eyes? And, if so, has the time arrived for American Christians to find ways to be a Confessing Church, the way Dietrich Bonhoeffer and many other believers did in the Germany of the nineteen-thirties-and-forties of the last century?
#Bonhoeffer#DietrichBonhoeffer#ConfessingChurch
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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

#DEpol #GeoPol #Fascism #Germany

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Descendants of Resistance fighters against the #Hitler regime rise--open letter to all #Germans:

Via #DerSpiegel

"The letter entitled
👉"Learn from history, strengthen democracy!" 👈
was signed by more than 280 women and men, including the descendants of #DietrichBonhoeffer, Claus Schenk #GrafVonStauffenberg, and #CarlFriedrichGoerdeler. They write that populists and...

swiss.social/@dominiksteiger/1

Cc @dominiksteiger

swiss.socialDominik Steiger (@dominiksteiger@swiss.social)#AFD "Ihre Eltern, Großeltern und Urgroßeltern hatten sich einst dem NS-Unrecht entgegengestellt. Nun wenden sich mehr als 280 Nachfahren von Widerstandskämpfern mit einem dringlichen Appell an die deutsche Öffentlichkeit." https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/rechtsextremismus-zeitzeugen-rufen-zur-verteidigung-der-demokratie-auf-a-74bdbed6-833d-4a8d-ac5d-b25ca70358d4
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Cees Grootes

The theory of stupidity

We have far more to fear from stupidity than evil.
Evil is easy to identify and fight against; not so with stupidity.

When we know something or someone is evil, we can take steps to fight it. With stupidity, it's much more difficult. 

Dietrich Bonhoeffer argues that stupidity is worse than evil because stupidity can be manipulated and used by evil

🔗 bigthink.com/thinking/bonhoeff

#psychology #Philosophy #stupidity #evil @philosophy #DietrichBonhoeffer #philosopher

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