[July 2003 journal entry]
To take actions to change or control outcomes in life is to be ‘before God as if without God’ (at least in the ‘religious’ T/O paradigm nuances for ‘God’). I think a central reason Dietrich turned to this phrase in his prison correspondence with Bethge was that he (Dietrich) and his fellow 20 July 1944 conspirators had crossed the threshold into taking action against Hitler that the ‘religious’ T/O paradigm would leave to ‘God’.
To take actions to change or control outcomes in life is to be ‘before God as if without God’ (at least in the ‘religious’ T/O paradigm nuances for ‘God’). I think a central reason Dietrich turned to this phrase in his prison correspondence with Bethge was that he (Dietrich) and his fellow 20 July 1944 conspirators had crossed the threshold into taking action against Hitler that the ‘religious’ T/O paradigm would leave to ‘God’.
