“ Bonhoeffer thought of death as the last station on the road to freedom. ”
Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
~ Eric Metaxas
This was one of the casualties of war, that trust itself seemed to die a thousand deaths.
With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made legal. Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other powers besides itself.
Each era has the fatal hubris to believe that it has once and for all climbed to the top of the mountain and can see everything as it is, from the highest and most objective vantage point possible.
