{"id":3649,"date":"2018-02-21T13:15:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T19:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=3649"},"modified":"2020-05-10T20:59:33","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T01:59:33","slug":"12-reformation-required-again-and-again-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=3649","title":{"rendered":"(12) REFORMATION REQUIRED AGAIN \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 AND AGAIN, and . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(please read these Reformation articles in numbered order&#8212;this one is last)<br \/>\nADDENDUM<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The church must confess that she has witnessed the lawless application of brutal force, the physical and spiritual suffering of countless innocent people, oppression, hatred, and murder, and that she has not raised her voice on behalf of the victims and has not found ways to hasten to their aid.&nbsp; She is guilty of the deaths of the weakest and most defenseless brothers of Jesus Christ&#8230; The church must confess that she has desired security, peace, and quiet, possessions and honor, to which she has no right&#8230; She has not borne witness to the truth of God&#8230; By her own silence she has rendered herself guilty because of her unwillingness to suffer for what she knows to be right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;Dietrich Bonhoeffer, hanged (weeks before the end of WWII) for plotting attempts to kill Hitler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(please read these Reformation articles in numbered order&#8212;this one is last) ADDENDUM &#8220;The church must confess that she has witnessed the lawless application of brutal force, the physical and spiritual suffering of countless innocent people, oppression, hatred, and murder, and that she has not raised her voice on behalf of the victims and has not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3649"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4267,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649\/revisions\/4267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}