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rateyes

(17,438 posts)
Fri Mar 9, 2018, 02:22 PM Mar 2018

We have been silent witnesses of evil deeds;

we have been drenched by many storms; we have learnt the arts of equivocation and pretense; experience has made us suspicious of others and kept us from being truthful and open; intolerable conflicts have worn us down and even made us cynical. Are we still of any use?”

—Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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We have been silent witnesses of evil deeds; (Original Post) rateyes Mar 2018 OP
Dietrich can speak for himself Downtown Hound Mar 2018 #1
I think he was condemning his whole nation DavidDvorkin Mar 2018 #2
Yep! rateyes Mar 2018 #3
Dietrich was talking about the church in Germany. rateyes Mar 2018 #6
Good Quote, wrong website njhoneybadger Mar 2018 #4
All in how you look at it, I guess. rateyes Mar 2018 #5

rateyes

(17,438 posts)
6. Dietrich was talking about the church in Germany.
Fri Mar 9, 2018, 09:33 PM
Mar 2018

Seems to me the church in the USA right now is doing the same thing.

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