Mediaite’s Isaac Schorr notes that in the latest episode of Tucker Carlson’s show, which was dedicated to denouncing Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro, Carlson observed that Dietrich Bonhoeffer lost his way resisting Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime. “Once you start calling people Nazis,” Carlson remarked, “we really have no choice but to start shooting them. To be Dietrich Bonhoeffer and sort of reach the end of reason, or even Christianity. Bonhoeffer decided Christianity’s not even-, he was a Lutheran pastor. Christianity is not enough, we have to kill the guy [Adolf Hitler]. I’m not judging Bonhoeffer, who was a great man in some ways, but that’s inevitable once we decide that people are Nazis.”
Schorr’s Mediaite column usefully compiles several of the X comments on Carlson’s relegation of Bonhoeffer to the dark side, including one by Bonhoeffer biographer Eric Metaxas. I thought some readers might find Schorr’s story of interest and all of us should know the story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who sacrificed his life for utterly righteous beliefs.
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