The Silence of The Church Is Destroying America | Guest: Eric Metaxas

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🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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NYT Best Selling Author and host of the Eric Metaxas Show and Socrates In The City, Eric joins Seth to discuss his new book, Letter to the American Church. Metaxas reveals the haunting similarities between today’s American Church and the German Church of the 1930s. Echoing Bonhoeffer's prophetic call, he exhorts his fellow Christians to repent of their silence in the face of evil. Seth and Eric discuss the significance of the 12,000 "apolitical" pastors in Nazi Germany who joined neither Hitler nor Bonhoeffer and what the American Church can learn from it today. A raw, honest, and urgent conversation, Eric pleads with the Church to wake up and move before we repeat the fatal flaw of the German Church. Lastly, Seth and Eric discuss 12 words from Bonhoeffer that really sums up the martyr's life and message! Get Eric's new book here: https://tinyurl.com/2p944uma Date: 09/15/22 To help UnAborted create more pro-life content and take our content to the streets, become a Patron of the show at https://www.patreon.com/unaborted To help Seth educate and expose culture to the evil of abortion so that every person has a right to be born, become an ALLY of The White Rose Resistance at https://thewhiterose.life

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0:00.7	A founder and member of the Confessing Church,
0:03.5	Bonhoeffer was instrumental in organizing Christian resistance
0:06.9	and calling the German church to action.
0:09.3	You need to know the story of this man
0:10.9	and why our guest today, Eric Metaxis,
0:12.8	is such an important voice in this chiroast moment
0:15.2	where we're almost past the Rubicon line.
0:17.6	In 1936, authorities banned Bonhoeffer
0:19.9	from teaching at the University of Berlin.
0:21.7	In 37, they shut down Bonhoeffer's
0:24.0	fink-involved underground seminary.
0:25.9	In 1938, authorities announced that every German pastor
0:29.0	had this were loyalty to Hitler.
0:31.0	In 1939, Bonhoeffer was given the opportunity
0:34.0	to escape Nazi Germany and return
0:36.4	to Union Theological Seminary in New York.
0:39.2	He spent two weeks in New York and returned home
0:41.4	stating, I will have no right to participate
0:44.5	in the reconstruction of Christian life in Germany
0:47.0	after the war if I do not share the trials of these times
0:50.3	with my people.
0:51.4	In April 1943, Bonhoeffer was arrested
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