There is a post by Bob Neugebauer at the Gem State Patriot News blog on August 25, 2024 titled It’s now simply a case of Good vs Evil. He begins with an image of the anti-Nazi Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer [1906 – 1945] and an alleged quote:
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
But eight years ago there was an article by Warren Throckmorton on August 25, 2016 titled The Popular Bonhoeffer Quote That Isn’t in Bonhoeffer’s Works. And if you look at Google Books you also will find in the 2019 The Oxford Handbook of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by Michael Mawson and Philip G. Ziegler on page 478 that ‘quote’ is dismissed.
Mr. Neugebauer’s post obeys Godwin’s Law, which states that:
“As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.”
In his fifth paragraph he claimed:
“....With the liberal media and social media technology companies doing all they can to scam us into voting for the democrats, it will be much like when Hitler took over Germany with his propaganda machine.”
His two title words of comparison were Evil and Good. When discussing Trump, we also need to remember three more words: Criminal, Defamer, and Fraud.
My image was modified from a sculpture of Bonhoeffer posted by Kamahele at Wikimedia Commons.
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