One of the 20th century’s most outstanding preachers was Dietrich Bonhoeffer. By way of a swift history from the International Bonhoeffer Society, Bonhoeffer was a European Lutheran “pastor, scholar, ecumenicist, and harmony advocate”. He wrote a lot of writing about the Christian living and religion.  ,
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In this writer’s opinion, his plays may be required reading for every seminarian and lay Christian. Despite his efforts, he is best known for his involvement in a failed assassination attempt against Adolf Hitler. He was detained, spent the final two years of his life in jail, and was put to death just before World War II was over.
Recently, Bonhoeffer’s heirs and researchers have spoken out against a new movie about his career and against liberals who they feel perhaps be co-opting Bonhoeffer’s reputation. According to an article in the Roys Report, these scientists and community members are concerned about the work of blogger, artist, and speech Eric Metaxas and others in or near his group, who have used Bonhoeffer’s life and work as an example that U. S. liberals may follow.  ,
According to the article, Metaxas has compared himself to Bonhoeffer and urged conservatives to embrace the” Bonhoeffer Moment” of the modern era and rebel against evil, particularly the Democratic Party. Additionally, Metaxas has written his own Barth biography. The team is also opposed to the notice of Bonhoeffer’s function in the Heritage Foundation’s” Project 2025″ report. There is a concern that such issues may spread Christian nationalism. These researchers released a statement that included the words “members of the Bonhoeffer Society” and “other Christian frontrunners.”
This portrayal makes unacceptable comparisons between Nazi Germany and our social system and glorifies violence. It is a harmful use of Bonhoeffer’s existence and lessons, especially in this vote period in the United States.
 , From Project 2025 to aggressive political speech, the tradition of European priest Dietrich Bonhoeffer is being invoked this election year on behalf of Christian Nationalism,” the researchers said in their speech”. It is a risky and terrible abuse of his life and religion.
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A historical movie about Bonhoeffer is also on the dreaded list for launch in November. The flyer for the movie reads:” Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin”. Bonhoeffer’s heirs stated,” He would never have seen himself somewhere near the right-wing radical, aggressive actions that are trying to correct him immediately. On the contrary, he would have criticized these very attitudes” . ,
One of the main points raised by them is that too much emphasis is being placed on Bonhoeffer’s part in the execution attempt while avoiding his religious and agricultural job, aside from the idea that the person is being mischaracterized. And I find that special issue to be affordable.
One can see why liberals may get a kindred nature in Bonhoeffer, given some of his feelings:
Silence in the face of sin is actually bad.
Never to respond is to communicate. To work is to not work.
If I sit next to a madman as he drives a car into a group of innocent bystanders, I ca n’t, as a Christian, simply wait for the catastrophe, then comfort the wounded and bury the dead. I have to try to get the driver’s fingers off the steering wheel.
The family’s womb’s embryo is destroyed, which violates the right to life that God has granted to this developing life. To ask whether we are now concerned with a human being is just to deceive the situation. The truth is that God undoubtedly intended to create a human being, and that this newly born people has been purposefully denied access to his life. And that is nothing but death.
With its innovative appeal to the weak, its arbitrariness, and satisfaction of power, Christianity either stands or falls. Christians are making these details clearer rather than clearer. Christianity gets used to the worship of energy far too quickly. Christians should provide more offence, shock the world much more, than they are doing now. Instead of first considering the potential right of the powerful, Christians should get a stronger have in favor of the poor.
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Bonhoeffer’s involvement in the Hitler murder plot is straightforward and alluring, but it only makes sense in his mind. In keeping with that in mind, it is important to keep in mind that Bonhoeffer was well-known as a wise preacher, and that we do him a disservice by merely focusing on the unquestionably captivating portrayal of his espionage. Regardless of party affiliation, Bonhoeffer intended for his thoughts to cross social ideologies and give everyone delay. In” The Cost of Discipleship” and other functions, Bonhoeffer speaks about Catholics taking their beliefs and its demands seriously:  ,
Low joy is the joy we impart on ourselves. Low joy is the ranting of compassion without requiring forgiveness, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession…. Low grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and evil.
Cheap grace is the idea that “grace” did it all for me, so I do not need to change my lifestyle. The believer who accepts the concept of” cheap grace” believes he can live as the rest of the world does. The Christian lost in cheap grace instead of going after Christ in a radical way believes he can simply enjoy the consolations of his grace.
The person who is in love with their community will destroy it. However, the person who cares about the people around them will build community wherever they go.
God examines the evil in us and the world when He enters the midst of evil and death. And by judging us, he cleanses and sanctifies us, and shows us his love and grace. Only children can experience happiness with him because he makes us do it.
Bonhoeffer’s work offers comfort and conviction to everyone.
The article addresses Lori Brandt Hale, the president of the International Bonhoeffer Society’s English-language section and professor of religion at Augsburg University. Hassan is concerned that Metaxas and the filmmakers spent too much time investigating Bonhoeffer’s involvement in the killing attempt, and that she and other Bonhoeffer scholars are concerned that those who might use the assassination attempt as an justification for political violence may be attracted to it.
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According to Hale, American Christian nationalists have distorted Bonhoeffer’s theological and ethical reflections in the face of the evils of the Nazis. In America’s current politics, she fears Christian nationalists miss the real comparisons with Nazi Germany, including” threats to political enemies, the free press, and the Constitution, and calls to dehumanize certain groups of people, especially immigrants and refugees”.
 ,” The people who make comparisons with Nazi Germany and contemporary realities, they are just not doing the work”, she said.
It is worth pointing out that” Christian nationalist” and” Project 2025″ have become catch-all references for anyone who identifies as a Christian and a conservative, opposes abortion and transing children, and may also hold a traditional view of marriage. The definitions have evolved into cudgels to make fun of those whose opinions do not logically align with those of those in power, those who wish to maintain power, or those who permanently reside in the fevered marshes of” Orange Man Bad.” For that matter, the Left, in all of its incarnations, secular or otherwise, has no problem throwing around words like” Nazi” and ‘ fascist” to get its point across and browbeat dissenters into silence and submission.
Bonhoeffer would not have approved of the riot on January 6. He might not have approved of Trump’s rhetoric. There are some conservative movement factions that he would have had issues with. But would he have authorized abortion on demand? Would he have reacted favorably to the idea of a former British soldier being detained for “disrepairing abortion” while silently praying in a court room? ”  ,
Would he have approved of the Democrats and the press stifling Joe Biden’s cognitive decline, or the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story and opposing viewpoints during the COVID-19 pandemic? Would he have accepted the federal role in the George Floyd Riots? Would he have given the go-ahead nod to the pre-dawn FBI raid on Marck Houck’s home? What about parents who dared to speak out at school board meetings being harassed?
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Would Bonhoeffer have encouraged the mutilation and drugging of children whose bodies and minds are still years away from development? Would he have approved of “brüshes” and other forms of sexual behavior among students in schools? He said,” Would he have lent his voice to the school curricula that actively seeks to divide people by race and end the nuclear family.” Would he have sent money, supplies, and support to the antisemitic campus marauders?
Bonhoeffer may have urged people to show compassion for immigrants. Would he have concurred that Alejandro Mayorkas had knowingly lied about Haitian migrants ‘ “punishment”? Would Bonhoeffer have supported the Democrats ‘ efforts to create a political bloc and destabilize the nation by opening the borders and forcing Americans to flee their homes, homes, and jobs? Would he have glossed over the situation in Aurora, Colo., or the deaths of people at the hands of violent illegal immigrants? Would he have agreed that the human traffickers, drug peddlers, and terrorists making use of a porous border is a non-issue?  ,
No, that is the answer to all of those inquiries.  ,
Notably, Bonhoeffer believed that those who choose to live a Christian life must regularly practice self-examination and course correction. He disliked cheap grace, which is now prevalent in churches and elsewhere.  ,
We are aware that its adherents are motivated by a lust for power concealed in ostensibly lofty ideals in terms of the secular Left. As to their Christian counterparts? There are undoubtedly many true progressive believers who are numbered among the Christian Left, as well as a lot of good people. There is also a desire to win the world’s support, especially given that progressive ideas are well-known and appear alluring. There is social credit to earn, after all.  ,
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Additionally, it is entirely possible that these individuals have seen the future and smelled the wind. They might just want to make sure they do n’t cross the line. According to the old saying, they may be feeding the alligator in the hope that it will consume them for the duration. The issue with that view is that the alligator may eventually get around to eating you, despite its propensity to do so.  ,
Ironically, the Left and its Christian supporters are unaware of their own fatal tectonic drift. They have never taken the exact self-assured inventory Bonhoeffer would have demanded. They do not see what they are becoming. They are willfully ignorant of history and their own trajectory while clearly recognizing the weaknesses in their foes. Totalitarian governments and dystopian nations always have a starting point. Bitter plants begin as seeds, take root, and mature slowly. Those who dare to express that out will find themselves in the “proverbial” world of pain. ” Just ask Gina Carano.  ,  ,  ,
In” The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,” there is the great line”, When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. And Bonhoeffer is credited with creating a legend. I must admit that I have not seen the movie I’m watching and am only a passing acquaintance with Metaxas ‘ work.  ,
I’m not in a position to say whether or not Bonhoeffer’s role in the war against Hitler was undervalued at the expense of acknowledging his body of work. I am aware of the dangers of people promoting” Christian nationalism” and” Project 2025″ while also promoting the very things Bonhoeffer would have vehemently opposed and becoming the very thing they claim to oppose. Very dangerous.  ,
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