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To: mrustow

There are so many contradicitons within the article itself...Just so folks don't nutso there were lots of people in 1931 that thought a dtrong leader ( a Fuhrer) was a necessity for Germany. Moreover, I don't think anyone ever put this particular cleric up on a pedestal...He is not comparable to say og how about Neibhur (The Cost of Disciplieship) who as a Protestant understood exactly the nature of what Hitler was doing. Sometimes it is not so important after history has moved on to find things to complain about. What we should be looking at these days is the EVIL that is


52 posted on 06/18/2004 4:01:37 PM PDT by jnarcus
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It was Bonhoeffer who wrote The Cost of Discipleship. Bonhoeffer also joined the Confessing Church movement but he had moments where he didn't think too clearly at times kind of falling into an eastern religious pacifist mentality. Reinhold Neibhur did however show Bonhoeffer where his theology was off track at those times.


53 posted on 06/18/2004 4:36:29 PM PDT by bereanway
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To: jnarcus
There are so many contradicitons within the article itself...Just so folks don't nutso there were lots of people in 1931 that thought a dtrong leader ( a Fuhrer) was a necessity for Germany. Moreover, I don't think anyone ever put this particular cleric up on a pedestal...He is not comparable to say og how about Neibhur (The Cost of Disciplieship) who as a Protestant understood exactly the nature of what Hitler was doing. Sometimes it is not so important after history has moved on to find things to complain about. What we should be looking at these days is the EVIL that is

And I'll be glad to address those contradictions, just as soon as you point them out. You can't just claim that a writer contradicts himself, and then not point out a single one. It looks more like you didn't like the tone of the piece, but have no arguments against it.

64 posted on 06/18/2004 7:42:52 PM PDT by mrustow ("And when Moses saw the golden calf, he shouted out to the heavens, 'Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!'")
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