“Quite unbearable.”
Written in Bonhoeffer’s diary entry in 1939 in New York where he attended church at Riverside, the church Rockefeller had built for Harry Emerson Fosdick. Fosdick was a great liberal.
"The whole thing was a respectable, self-indulgent, self-satisfied religious celebration. This sort of idolatrous religion stirs up the flesh which is accustomed to being kept in check by the Word of God. Such sermons make for libertinism, egotism, indifference. Do people not know that one can get on as well, even better, without “religion”?.....Perhaps the Anglo-Saxons are really more religious than we are, but they are certainly not more Christian, at least, if they still have sermons like that. I have no doubt at all that one day the storm will blow with full force on this religious hand-out, if God himself is still anywhere on the scene.
~Eric Metaxas. Bonhoeffer:Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
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