Bruderhof wrote:
> Bruderhof wrote:
>
>> Is Social Democracy that which rightly should be demanded? Or is it
>> rather—because it so energetically pursues “the state of the future”
>> —that which, as so many assume, should by all means be opposed by
>> every citizen and churchman?
>>
>
> A person must indeed be blind if he cannot see that, during the entire
> century since the French Revolution, there have arisen movements of
> ever increasing consequence directed toward a new ordering of society.
> Where is there a country that has not been agitated by socialistic
> ideas? It is one impulse, one forward-striving spirit, which seeks
> this new social order. No one can avoid this movement. Church and
> state must grant people freedom in this regard. We have lived in a
> century of revolution and rapid change and are living in the midst of
> radical movements—and this is in accord with the will of God!
>
>
Notice how much our ways of looking at things have changed already! Who
wonders today at the fact that every citizen demands political rights and
receives them in ever greater degree? Who now is surprised when equal
justice is demanded for all, both high and low? Is there anyone who wants
to reintroduce slavery and indentured service? Or who would do away with
representative government? These are genuinely new ways of looking at
things.
--
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
www.blumhardts.com
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