By and large, however, the church capitulated to Hitler. Hitler scorned this cowering response from the religous leaders. He said, 'Do you really believe the masses will ever be Christian again... The parsons... will betray their God to us. They will betray anything for the sake of their miserable little jobs and incomes."
Many Churches in that part of the world are little more than museums to a period in history of past spiritual vigor.
"The Christian Church contributed to the rise of the modern world; the modern world in turn, has undermined the Christian Church. Thus, to the degree that the Church enters, engages and employs the modern world uncritically, the church becomes her own gravedigger."
Modernity causes the church to buy into the business model for doing its work and defining its success.
We live in a society that is in great pain. How can it be that this wealthy, richly gifted church of ours can coexist alongside of it and demonstrate so little redemptive influence?
