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Dietrich Bonhoeffer Speaks to Woke Society Today

15:49 31 May in Private by rafferty

May 25, 2022 By Jon Henschen, American Thinker Prior to World War II, many Christian congregations and clergy in Germany jumped on the Hitler bandwagon.  One exception to this trend was Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer.  Witnessing Kristallnacht, the wholesale 1938 Nazi attack on Germany's Jewish community, Bonhoeffer resisted collaboration with the Nazi regime and proceeded to speak publicly against Hitler's euthanasia program and the genocidal persecution of Jews. By 1940, Bonhoeffer joined the resistance, and in 1943, he was arrested for his efforts to rescue Jews, although the charges against him were eventually expanded to his being involved in the plot to assassinate Hitler.  Bonhoeffer spent one and a half years incarcerated at Tegel Prison until he was transferred first to a Gestapo facility and then to  Flossenbürg concentration camp, where he was executed by hanging on April...

A Cult of Victimhood

22:14 31 March in Private by rafferty

March 31, 2021 By Jon Henschen, American Thinker Founded in 1923, the Frankfurt School, a philosophical and sociological movement with the aim of developing Marxist studies in Germany that operated out of Goethe University in Frankfurt. After the Nazi takeover in 1933, the Frankfurt School relocated to Columbia University in New York City. The influence of the Frankfurt School has been far reaching, with Critical Theory their primary focus, which has a preoccupation for critiquing modernity and capitalist society. Unable to attract converts to communism due to capitalism’s abundant material wealth, the cultural Marxism of Critical Theory perpetuates discontent by dividing people by race, sex, and class with individuals falling into either oppressed or oppressor roles. Students of the movement became the New Left radicals of the 1960s, led by the Students for...