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Stupidity is a choice based on a tendency toward mental laziness. Letting someone else tell you what to think is lazy. Refusing to take back control of your mind when the designated 'thinker' starts to destroy you is stupid.

I like Bonhoeffer's thoughts and insights, it's much more nuanced than Carlo Cipolla's "The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity". His observations on individualism and group/collective belonging do help explain a lot of the more various examples in people that you can see. Both ideas have merits worth discussing, but Bonhoeffer has some deeper exploration of group/cult think/indoctrination that goes beyond the simplistic notions of dumb and gullible. It's so sad that he was executed just be fore his camp was liberated, I believe he could have given us more insights and wisdom, maybe somethings that would be useful today.

Thank you Father . May you be blessed

There have alway been incrediably stupid people that put on a mask of being intellectual to hide their stupidity . They gain degrees and Doctorates and they are still stupid . True intellent people do not insult people , call others names because of what they look like . Pretend to go along with new, refreshing and liberating ideas . When they are still the stupid brainiac . There are msny around . None stupid people do not criticise others . They let them get on with it . With love and compassionate. We show love not condemnation as Christ did.

gratia tibi!

He was stupid to follow a theology that commends and commands genocide.

I don't know why this video was recommended to me, but it is a very timely topic. Stupidity seems to be overwhelming Mankind at a very perilous time. I have great respect for Bonhoeffer, as well. I remember in school how people talked about how they would have resisted the Nazis, the Holocaust...how you act today answers that quandry.. Genocide is going on right now, and the US is providing the weapons used. How are you responding to this stupid evil?

The devil is coming. Get your spiritual house in order.

Saying they are the victims of being stupid seems cold. Boenhoffer wrote in German. Could there be another translation?

Danke für Ihre Worte und Gedanken zu diesem schweren Thema. Leider scheint es immer noch/wieder so aktuell zu sein wie vor achtzig Jahren.

Pope Francis was unsure which candidate for president was the less evil, and only sure that both were against life! Jesus+ said to 'give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and give to God what is God's.' My allegiance was to Jesus+, and I did not vote, to wit, I have that right. Unfortunately, we are living in another dark age, and yes dear Father a perilous age of stupidity.

Quite timely dear Father, indeed, the western world has become stupefied, and the eastern may not be far behind. "Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of God." +

the bible says something else: there is NONE RIGHTEOUS no not one the problem only ever has been SIN. moreover under scripture ALL ARE EVIL. but this B. denies, as Jesus said to his apostles , " if you, being evil, can give good gifts to your children . . . ." the issue is the evil of all of us and not stupidiity If i thought Bonhoffer worth studying i might come to the clearer conclusion that he was never a Christian of any real kind at all

Welcome to the decage of populism counting on stupidity (Trump)

Egyptian mystery school...

Germany and the cult of Merkel and the Green Party.

A secular take on stupidity. Start with your genetic heritage, substitute a thirst for entertainment for curiosity, suppress imagination and replace doubt with certainty. Bonhoeffer and Arendt explain the dangers of stupidity but don't explain what it is. How you get there? Study Edward Bernays Crystallizing Public Opinion, Goebbles bible, and the danger of the Public Relations Counsel.

When Dietrich Bonhoeffer is mentioned Sophie Scholl should also be mentioned because she openly defied the Nazis and paid the same price as Bonhoeffer. Whenever I hear of someone quoting Voltaire "I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." I think of Sophie. Considering how rare people like her are I know how much they mean it. Note: I am aware that likely Voltaire did not originally say this. Considering that Voltaire freeloaded off of Fredrick the Great it is likely he did not mean it either.

The problem of stupidity is that to those who engage in it it doesn't seem stupid. A mad man doesn't think he is mad. Other people seem mad. The fish doesn't know he is wet. No single drop of water sees itself as part of the flood. To an emotionally charged mob the person who calls for restraint is viewed as a seditionist. A participant of a lynch mob sees themselve as someone who is establishing justice and not as a participant in murder.

Without spiritual experience of actual depth, people attach themselves to fervent political movements and the attending intoxication of group mania. The cure would be a deeper understanding of who Christ was and is and His relationship to the church and her people, but that understanding, if it ever existed in America, has been utterly obliterated.

I don't think love can conquer stupidity. Only natural selection can. And that takes a long time.

stupid is not fully learning the polities of the NAZI and projecting on those policies a minority of decisions when the over whelming policy was for the German people and they loved it as all do seeking political power and wealth i don't think he meant stupidly but evil , i guess not able to say that out right

Do not call anyone on earth your father , for one is your Father who is in heaven. Matthew 23:9 .

The lying politicians are counting on people to sign-up to play their game. The bigger the lie the easier it is to sell. For example: think of a world without religion or morals or accountability. How about a global world where there would be no more conflict and everyone worshipped the creation. Jesus is coming back soon with rewards, to stomp on the grapes of wrath, pure evil and to rule and reign in the millennium. This is where the bride of Christ will be prepared for the marriage supper of the Lamb. It's not about the greatness of heart, it's about the greatness of God.

I may know of a couple of these Righteous Ones. You teach the meat and potatoes of our Faith.

We are being led to what are for some of Us disparate parts of The Body in our need for One Another. The Holy Spirit brought me to you. God Bless. 😇

I’ve been thinking about Bonhoeffer frequently these days. Thank you for this, Fr Kerry.

Whoever believes in christian fairy tales should not complain on "stupidity".

Thank you for your video! Bonhoeffer was genuinely a prophet of his time.

Thank you. ❤

I am not sure if you read your comments and I truly rarely leave comments, but I feel almost obligated to in this case. I have always had a inner faith in me but I have found it incredibly difficult to claim my belonging to the Christian church for many reasons. I really appreciate your videos and it is incredibly refreshing to see someone preach the word of god in such a way. I often find my morals to not mirror those of so called Christians around me but you have made me feel more confident in my beliefs and sense of belonging! Thank you !

It’s an obvious reference to the Eucharist.

The Law of God demands our sins deserve a punishment from God's holiness, this Law is not set aside, it is fulfilled. Anslem was a half-baked cake.

You have some crazy broad shoulders lol

He is an ancestor of mine, our family never fails to mention this at gatherings. Thank you for telling his story.

ate 0.3g pan cyans, got a mystical experience for sure, the god inside me took over, i was/became/am enlightned, genuinly enlightned

Contracts, interesting that that is how we give birth

Thank you having read St. Gregory of Nyssas " On the Holy Trinity, "On the Soul and the Resurrection "i had found his writings to be quiet baffling thank you clearing up his teaching on the Resurrection of the body.

Vote for trump.

Well said and depicted 🙏😇

out of all the love, you sound like Winnie The Pooh

Crucifixion is a sin, blasphemy and a mockery of Jesus.

But he showed me except the pain its easier

The pain is the most serious pain ever I felt it he showed me

A come on u didn't feel he's pain I did

Loved this! Now im waiting for the affliction video

Here is an interesting experiment: read 'No Exit' in conjunction with C.S. Lewis' 'The Great Divorce'. They are strangely similar works, both presenting Hell in an unexpected and modern way in order to describe the misery of being stuck in the ego but colliding with other egos. They also both have the possibility of a way out, but a way blocked by the barrier of self-preoccupation; people naturally reject perfect Joy and Life and choose misery because they would prefer to keep themselves. However, Lewis, being a Christian, shows that there is a force powerful enough to break the chains of Self, namely, the Love of God.

If it is true that God created suffering in order to make our souls grow, then he himself decided to create these rules, because as Almighty he could just as easily have created completely different rules that would allow us to grow, without having to suffer. Or he could have simply given us the greatness of our souls unconditionally, without us having to do anything at all, simply out of love and mercy. But he didn't do that. To claim that God created suffering for our benefit is, in my opinion, something extremely inhumane and sadistic. These arguments simply don't make sense. The weakness of this argument is that it assumes the limited options available to us humans. But God is free from any restrictions and could do anything if he wanted to. And then always this free will argument: For me, that doesn't justify why a supposedly loving, caring father gives sadistic, perverted and violent people the opportunity to do cruel things, but doesn't give weak and helpless people the opportunity to protect themselves from it. Common people, what's wrong with you?

Thanks for the great synopsis. I think it's a very valid observation that wealth breeds violence and think that point should be made much more in our society. But then again, we prosper from it, so it's convenient to ignore.

I love the term indulge in the rest and still waters. A token of eternity. I look at Shabbat as the preparation of the Wedding Supper of the Lamb (eaten on Passover, Pesach 🐑) His last meal 🥘 was sabbath and He is preparing for millennium rest. I get rejuvenated in His rest, it is finished ✅ God has done it ALL! 🌎🕊☀️