Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: kriz@spica.usc.edu (Dennis Kriz) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: A Tribute to the German Resistance on the Aniversery of WWII Message-ID: Date: 4 Sep 89 09:55:15 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 28 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu To that I'd like to add: Martin Niemuller, one of the leaders of the Confessing Church (the independent Lutheran Church) who proclaimed that "No Human Fuhrer Could Stand Himself Up Above The Word of God." There weren't enough Niemullers, and Niemuller himself was the one who the famous epitaph to the Nazi-era is attributed: "When they went after the Communists, I did not stand up, I was not a Communist." "When they went after the Jews, I did not stand up, I was not Jewish" "When they went after the Catholics, I did not stand up, I was Protestant" "When they went after me, there was no one left to stand up." But in fairness, Niemuller did a *lot* He and Bonhoeffer were the Sakharovs of their time. And the Lutherans who formed the Confessing Church, were already assembling in 1934, when in January of that year, the Protestants of Germany issued the Barmen Declaration, that layed down the clear understanding that Ceasar is not God. dennis