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60 Years Ago Dietrich Bonhoeffer was Murdered
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- "war is blasphemie" - (Dietrich Bonhoeffer) 60 years ago the german pacifist and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was murdered by the Nazis. After three days in Buchenwald, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was transported to the Flossenburg concentration camp in a military truck with other prisoners from the circle of the July 20 conspirators. There the evangelical theologian was hung on April 9, 1945 after a night court martial for "high treason", four weeks before the unconditional capitulation of Hitler Germany. |
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Jump To Comment: 1Peaceful Means will give Humanity a Wonderful New Birth.
- An Appeal to Christians in particular for a Renewal of Gospel Nonviolence.
Mr. President and Prime Minister, Hear;
To address you once more is essential, I fear.
I begged you once to change your stance,
And to stop your constant warring dance.
I wonder why you still further the lie,
That from waging wars no Christian need shy?
The tragedy is that you believe a false spin,
An untruth which leads to evil and sin.
Horrendous though the outcome may be,
You are still unwilling to admit or to see,
That the waging of wars is right out of step,
With the Christian Beatitudes you profess to accept. *1
Responding to our calling as children of God,
Ought to leave us enlightened and so overawed,
That the forces of goodness we would wish to release,
By following only paths of genuine peace.
Alas, our own Taoiseach has abysmally failed,
To listen to thousands of citizens who railed.
He has abandoned the tradition of neutrality,
To enable Sam wage war against humanity.
Ireland`s collaboration in this imperial game,
Has brought conscientious folk nothing but shame.
Christians all the more so ought surely to shrink,
From bringing this world near a disastrous brink.
Though all of humanity are fellow human beings,
Many have been robbed of their economic means.
They had long been promised so much needed relief,
But sanctions and bombings have added to their grief.
Every kind of warfare and environmental mess,
Brings untold suffering and enormous distress.
Shamefacedly oil has been coveted and desired,
To allow standards of living in the west to be highered.
In the garden of Gethsemane Christ taught us to love,
Just after he had prayed to his Father above.
“Put away the sword!” was his important command,
As he accepted his arrest in a manner so grand. *2
No doubt I appear to be labouring the point,
That God will peacemakers with his blessing anoint,
If we profess to be Christians, let us trust in his word,
Resetting our focus, which has long been so blurred.
To believe that the Gospel is a genuine true story,
Will renew people`s hope in Christ`s promise of glory.
May we seek real forgiveness for being mean in the past,
As we justified wars that bring peace that can`t last.
Let us follow the example of the Saviour divine,
Who promised humanity a destiny so fine.
Let `s call for a mindset that can bring peace here on earth,
Peaceful means will give humanity a wonderful new birth.
*1 Cf. Matthew, Chapters 5-7
*2 Cf. Matthew, Ch. 26, v. 52
Written in June 2004 by a Peaceful Means Campaigner.