Yeah Dorothy Day and co-founder of the Catholic Worker Ammon Hennacy (who I was privileged to know in the 60s) were not the kind of false Xtians Vought and the Claremont scum are.
Yeah Dorothy Day and co-founder of the Catholic Worker Ammon Hennacy (who I was privileged to know in the 60s) were not the kind of false Xtians Vought and the Claremont scum are.
Thank you, TC, for not painting all Christians with the same brush. The Christian Nationalists are an aberration of their own. Dorothy Day walked the talk.
The one we need to pay attention to in our time is the Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He saw what was coming in the Germany of the early 1930’s and experienced the gradual and complete co-option of the church--which already was entangled in the state through a religious tax system that paid pastors.
When the Third Reich tried to control their internal belief systems some church people tried to resist their complete cooption by the State. Thus the Barmen Declaration and the break off Confessing Church.
Bonhoeffer tried to prepare young pastors for a real Christianity that would have to navigate over against the state apparatus, knowing full well that they all faced forced military duty and possible death.
He believed in the non-violence of the Jesus of the Gospel and morally struggled with his involvement in a plan to kill Hitler, who eventually ordered Bonhoeffer’s death (by hanging ) in a concentration camp.
His central action, which we can learn from today, was to form small groups whose members knew and loved one another and could support one another in a fear filled, challenging times ahead. He firmly believed that in this kind of societal climate resistance could not be done on one’s own but with the strength of others.
Carol, I agree that Bonhoeffer sets an example for how Christians should respond to the government. The newly released film may introduce him to a much wider audience now.
Yeah Dorothy Day and co-founder of the Catholic Worker Ammon Hennacy (who I was privileged to know in the 60s) were not the kind of false Xtians Vought and the Claremont scum are.
Thank you, TC, for not painting all Christians with the same brush. The Christian Nationalists are an aberration of their own. Dorothy Day walked the talk.
The one we need to pay attention to in our time is the Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He saw what was coming in the Germany of the early 1930’s and experienced the gradual and complete co-option of the church--which already was entangled in the state through a religious tax system that paid pastors.
When the Third Reich tried to control their internal belief systems some church people tried to resist their complete cooption by the State. Thus the Barmen Declaration and the break off Confessing Church.
Bonhoeffer tried to prepare young pastors for a real Christianity that would have to navigate over against the state apparatus, knowing full well that they all faced forced military duty and possible death.
He believed in the non-violence of the Jesus of the Gospel and morally struggled with his involvement in a plan to kill Hitler, who eventually ordered Bonhoeffer’s death (by hanging ) in a concentration camp.
His central action, which we can learn from today, was to form small groups whose members knew and loved one another and could support one another in a fear filled, challenging times ahead. He firmly believed that in this kind of societal climate resistance could not be done on one’s own but with the strength of others.
I'll never be a Christian, but I have met a few who not only talked the talk, but walked the walk.
Carol, I agree that Bonhoeffer sets an example for how Christians should respond to the government. The newly released film may introduce him to a much wider audience now.