• Norin@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Not many, but my hope is that anyone interested enough does a little research.

      Bonhoeffer’s pacifism is a complicated matter. He believed in nonviolence, but also participated in a variety lot to kill Hitler.

      To summarize him a little…. Sometimes we need to abandon our principles to care for others. My goodness is less important than the wellbeing of those who are oppressed.

      • ChouxFleur@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Well put.

        Sometimes we need to abandon our principles to care for others. My goodness is less important than the wellbeing of those who are oppressed.

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          I guess. I’m a fairly intelligent person, who is well educated, and decently well read. But I’ve never heard of them. I’ll have to do some reading I guess.

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            2 months ago

            To be fair I grew up in a religious household so he was a bit of a folk hero for us.

            He was an interesting chap.

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            2 months ago

            If you’re curious about the guy, he’s worth reading. His Letters and Papers from Prison and Ethics are the two dealing with all of this. Ethics is unfinished, because he was moved from a standard prison to a concentration camp before they eventually executed him.