To clarify: I didn't write this, I just knew who the source of the thought @caspiancey.bsky.social had expressed was. The great Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Protestant theologian murdered by the Nazi regime, wrote this. nsjonline.com/article/2021... - ThreadSky

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j.wieche.rs • 6 days ago

To clarify: I didn't write this, I just knew who the source of the thought @caspiancey.bsky.social had expressed was.

The great Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Protestant theologian murdered by the Nazi regime, wrote this.

https://nsjonline.com/article/2021/12/bonhoeffer-on-stupidity/

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amarkthompson.bsky.social•6 days ago

That site has some troublesome content.

j.wieche.rs•6 days ago

Meh.
As said, I didn't really look at it/was just happy to find a longish excerpt. 😮‍💨

amarkthompson.bsky.social•6 days ago

Weird to find such an enlightened essay surrounded by an ocean of obtuseness.

j.wieche.rs•6 days ago

In some ways, of course, also very apt, but... yeah.

amarkthompson.bsky.social•6 days ago

Thank you for sharing it!

caspiancey.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yeah to be clear, that’s all I’m reading there and it was fantastic and makes me want to seek out more Bonhoeffer, not sub to their paper lol

j.wieche.rs•6 days ago

As a contrast, which you are almost certainly familiar with, also from a protestant, but one who was initially supportive of Hitler, but became disillusioned and was imprisoned in the mid-1930s already:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came

j.wieche.rs•6 days ago

(I've just been informed that this website has some problematic content. As indicated, it was just the first even remotely useful translation of a longer excerpt I found.

I already wanted to look for a better/different translation, but now that seems more important.

j.wieche.rs•6 days ago

Not a great translation, and only an excerpt of the wider work, but the most comprehensive one I could find with a quick search.

caspiancey.bsky.social•6 days ago

I also clarified a bit lol

https://bsky.app/profile/caspiancey.bsky.social/post/3licznyaii22r

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