[August 2000 journal entry]
It seems to me that Bonhoeffer’s decision to join the Abwehr circle of conspirators entailed a course of action that implied a ‘without God’ approach to ethics and spirituality in that he joined a direct, definite, and final attempt to end the Hitler-driven tragedy for which neither the ‘religious’ T/O paradigm nor his pre-1939 ‘Confessing Church’ perspective could justify/support.
It seems to me that Bonhoeffer’s decision to join the Abwehr circle of conspirators entailed a course of action that implied a ‘without God’ approach to ethics and spirituality in that he joined a direct, definite, and final attempt to end the Hitler-driven tragedy for which neither the ‘religious’ T/O paradigm nor his pre-1939 ‘Confessing Church’ perspective could justify/support.