Does your pastor or priest or rabbi encourage you to live your life with courage? Does he encourage you to live your life with bold and sacrificial action? Or, is your religion over-intellectualized? What would you do if a fascist came to power as head of your country?
In the 4-22-2010 Wall Street Journal Joseph Loconte reviews a book by Eric Metaxas entitled Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy. Bonhoeffer became involved in a conspiracy to assassinate Adolf Hitler, and was executed in a Bavarian concentration camp in 1945. His was a faith that was expressed in action. Others who called themselves Christians in 1945 remained "respectable, domesticated, timid, and ended up doing the devil's work for him."
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