BONHOEFFER: On Stupidity
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What follows is a paper Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote before he was hanged to death in a Nazi prison camp shortly before World War II ended in 1945. The similarities to the radicalization of young men and boys in Nazi Germany is frighteningly similar to what is happening today in America, particularly in the Christian Nationalist movement. Bonhoeffer also provides clarity for how and why some people seem entirely convinced they are right, even when their position in ...