I agree with the sentiment, but the word “protestieren” signified “to attest” and not “to protest” (but as a Protestant myself, I do believe that protests have a place within Church, go my American sisters and brothers!).
As a Protestant (at least nominally) myself I feel like the current German Protestant church is pretty well positioned in their believes.
But to be clear, espescially the German protestant church has been very off the moral path when it came to past fascists as well as the stance during WW1.
American Protestants are generally very much the same kind of “believers” as the ones during WW2 - very much unlike Bonhöffers Protestant ideas. And it’s nothing surprising, most of them left Europe with the religious foundation ofnthe 18th and 19th century
I agree with the sentiment, but the word “protestieren” signified “to attest” and not “to protest” (but as a Protestant myself, I do believe that protests have a place within Church, go my American sisters and brothers!).
As a Protestant (at least nominally) myself I feel like the current German Protestant church is pretty well positioned in their believes.
But to be clear, espescially the German protestant church has been very off the moral path when it came to past fascists as well as the stance during WW1.
American Protestants are generally very much the same kind of “believers” as the ones during WW2 - very much unlike Bonhöffers Protestant ideas. And it’s nothing surprising, most of them left Europe with the religious foundation ofnthe 18th and 19th century
both protest and protestant come from the same root word. and, I would agree that they do “mean” the same thing… to declare publicly or testify.
the -ant ending just makes it “person who declares publicly”