Comment on Seeing shit like this kills me. People are so ignorant.
zbyte64@awful.systems 4 days agoDietrich Bonhoeffer was murdered by the SS because he didn’t stand idle as his country went full Nazi. He helped with multiple plots to assassinate Hitler, smuggled vulnerable people out of Germany and founded a church that rejected nazification that was later deemed illegal by the Mazis. The guy was a pastor. Do you honestly think he was dogshit for not doing enough?
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I think the Catholic Church has abused the trust of a great many wonderful people who have also made a relatively understandable mistake, in the sense that everyone is a product of their environment, in supporting its continued existence.
bless@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
This also exposes another problem with the original assertion: there’s plenty to do if you’re present, like Bonhoeffer was, but what is there to do if someone lives on the other side of the world? Send a harshly-worded tiktok?
zbyte64@awful.systems 3 days ago
Across the pond there were families that took in those refugees, invited Dietrich to speak to congregations, and stored his letters he sent from prison. In short, we should echo the voices of dissent and give them material support if possible.
bless@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Fair, I aspire to be that way. The best I can do right now is to tell people espousing that nonsense over here to cut that shit out