![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For instance, Victoria Barnett told me in an email: Not to act is to act." –D.BonhoefferĪccording to three Bonhoeffer scholars I consulted, the quote doesn’t appear in Bonhoeffer’s writings, nor is he known to have said this. "Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. The fake voting quote was a take off of another fake Bohoeffer quote which Metaxas has seriously attributed to Bonhoeffer.įor instance, in his student guide, Metaxas has this image:Įlsewhere, including this tweet, Metaxas has attributed this quote to Bonhoeffer. ![]() In looking into this joke, I found another possibly more serious issue. Several people had hunted for it and asked Metaxas about it with no response. Recently, twitter user Michael Goff asked Metaxas for help to find it. In the ensuing response of tweets from his followers, several disagreed with the quote (as if it was a real quote) but no one challenged it. It obviously failed Īs Bonhoeffer said "Not to cast a vote for the two majors IS to cast a vote for one of them." - Ethics, pp. The ORIGINAL Bonhoeffer fake quote was intended as an OBVIOUS joke. Now Metaxas says he was playing the mountebank with his fake Bonhoeffer quote: ![]()
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