Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller (1892-1984) was a German Lutheran theologian and pastor. After initially supporting Nazism, he became a harsh critic, was imprisoned, and narrowly escaped execution.
For politicians truth and falsehood are unimportant. So I never could become a politician—not even a church politician.
No more are we ready to keep silent at man's behest when God commands us to speak. For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man.
The oppression is growing, and anyone who has had to submit to the tempter’s machine-gun fire during this last week thinks differently from what he did even three weeks ago.
Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.
