Dietrich Bonhoeffer.org on September 11

[Octafish]

From the 1930s on, Dietrich Bonhoeffer worked to stop the NAZIs, their illegal wars and Hitler.

Bonhoeffer helped Jews escape the Final Solution. For that, he was arrested.



The NAZIs killed the man a few days before the end of the war:

BONHOEFFER for MONDAY - SEPTEMBER 11, 2006

The Command of Love

We Christians are above all addressed by the command of love to the point that we ourselves must live in peace with every person, just like Christ when he preached peace to the community, exemplified in peace with one's brother and sister, with one's neighbor, with the Samaritan. Unless we have this peace, we cannot preach peace to people. Most who are annoyed at the world of peace among peoples, moreover, are already calling in question the love of enemies over against the personal enemy. When we wish to speak about the conditions for peace, therefore, we would do well always to keep before our eyes the fact that relationships between two nations bear close analogy to relationships between two individuals. The conditions that are opposed to peace are in the one as in the other relationship: list for power, pride, inordinate desire for glory and honor, arrogance, feelings of inferiority, and strife over more living space and over one's "bread" of life. What is sin for an individual is never virtue for an entire people or nation. What is proclaimed as the gospel to the church, the congregation, and thereby, the individual Christian, is spoken to the world as a judgment. When a people refuses to hear this command, then Christians are called forth from that people to give witness to peace. Let us take care, however, that we miserable sinners proclaim peace from a spirit of love and not from any zeal for security or from any mere political aim.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer - from A Testament to Freedom 95

Source: http://www.dbonhoeffer.org/

Contrast and compare with the warmonger and election-thief below...

[harrison]

1. Thank you for posting this reminder. I was thinking about

Bonhoeffer a couple of days ago. A very interesting person.

[leftchick]

2. Thank You Octafish

a wonderful human being vs a worthless piece of shit.

[Hav]

3. .

Thanks, great quote.

[noonwitch]

4. They executed him for allegedly plotting to kill Hitler

When Himmler realized it was all over, he sent a specific order to execute Bonhoeffer.

It was alleged that he knew the identity of several of the plotters and wouldn't give them up to the nazis. No one really knows for sure if Bonhoeffer was part of the plot. The nazis also killed several of his relatives at around the same time.

[bobthedrummer]

5. k&r

[AspenRose]

6. Oh what a great website, never heard of it before

Going to bookmark it now....Bonhoeffer was an amazing soul.