Peter Bradley

“The twentieth-century theologian Karl Rahner commented that “God” is the last sound we should make before falling silent, and Saint Augustine, long ago, said, “si comprehendis, non est Deus” (if you understand, that isn’t God). All of this formal theologizing is but commentary on that elusive and confounding voice from the burning bush: “I am who am.”
― Robert E. Barron, Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith

“In so far as students have thought at all about the sources of the Nazi genocide of the Jews, however, almost all are unaware of Hitler’s modernism in matters of religion, nor of the fact, as we saw in Chapter 1, that the ranks of the Nazified German Christians were filled with theological modernists.139”
― Paul R. Hinlicky, Before Auschwitz: What Christian Theology Must Learn from the Rise of Nazism

“By this I mean the fact that Hitler regarded the Darwinian criticism of the West’s antecedent religious traditions as decisive for their refutation and searched for a new, naturalistic theology guided by the root principle of natural selection, the immanent struggle of life against life. Hitler’s new theology then would be firmly rational, based on science, with an articulate theological doctrine—not running around in the woods naked hugging trees and building bonfires, as he disdainfully mocked German neopagans.”
― Paul R. Hinlicky, Before Auschwitz: What Christian Theology Must Learn from the Rise of Nazism

“Close friends of many, years' standing became deadly enemies overnight. Little cliques, based on the principle of mutual protection and advancement, sprang up everywhere. Some shouted slogans from Jacques Duclos. Some shouted down anyone who suggested logical discussion of problems. The mood, the emotions, were hysterically leftist with the most violent racist talk I ever heard.”
― Bella Dodd, School of Darkness: