Could we take just a moment to reflect on the memory of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945), the Lutheran Pastor who was an influential critic of Hitler and Nazism. He was executed in 1945, after publicly speaking out against the Nazi policy of euthanasia and the murder of Jews, shortly before the end of the war.
And of Martin Niemöller (1893–1984), another Lutheran pastor in Nazi Germany, who narrowly escaped the same fate and who famously said: ""In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up."
I truly hope it will not be that bad in Trump's America, but may we all have the courage to resist whatever may be coming.
«The people united will never be defeated!»
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