Bill Pratt | December 18, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt The heretical German Christians, in 1933, galvanized Dietrich Bonhoeffer and another German pastor, Martin Niemoller, into action. They produced a statement that spelled out their grievances with the German Christians. The statement contained the following four points: First, it declared that its signers would rededicate themselves to the Scriptures and to [...]
Bill Pratt | December 9, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt One of the most important historical facts about the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer was his reaction to the Nazi take-over of the Lutheran state church in Germany in the 1930′s. Eric Metaxas, in his magnificent biography of Bonhoeffer, devotes an entire chapter to Nazi theology. The program developed by the Nazis to [...]
Bill Pratt | May 11, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt There is no doubt that religious people throughout history have killed people, at least partly because of their religious beliefs. Even Christians have been guilty. But many prominent atheists accuse religion, and especially Christianity, of mass killings and argue that if the world could rid itself of religious belief and turn to [...]
