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‘The desire to harness Bonhoeffer’s moral capital for partisan ends has intensified as knowledge of his life and witness has expanded, and as American society has grown more polarized…’
Angel Studios, the Utah-based Hollywood alternative that struck gold previously with 2023’s Sound of Freedom, may have another hit on its hands.
The studio—considered to be part of the MAGA-friendly parallel economy that emerged during the cancel-culture and ESG movements—has made the movie industry take note.
Following the success of Freedom, leftist media embarked on a George Soros-backed smear campaign to discredit the film’s subject, anti-sex-trafficking activist Tim Ballard.
But it faces a dilemma in doing so with the subject of Angel’s newest hit, Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin, about a modern-day martyr who advocated for a militant resistance to Adolf Hitler using a utilitarian argument for pacifism to justify it.
The movie, which hit theaters at Thanksgiving, is slated to begin streaming in late January.
Yet, following a campaign rife with Hitler comparisons, panicmongering and assassination attempts against Republican leader Donald Trump, many leftist are hoping to appropriate the Christian scholar as one of their own—perhaps as justification for their own seditious schemes.
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Born in 1906 in Breslau, Germany, Bonhoeffer was a devout Lutheran from an early age and felt drawn to the ministry.
He completed his doctoral dissertation at 21 and continued his seminary studies in New York. There he worshipped at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, where he was shaped by the deep faith and social conscience of the black church tradition.
As the Nazis took over Germany and hurtled it toward war and genocide, Bonhoeffer opposed their coopting of the Protestant churches—exemplified in the movie by a bishop who praises Adolf Hitler as a “true savior” sent by God to restore Germany.
During World War II, Bonhoeffer and other family members were part of a secret anti-Hitler conspiracy within the German intelligence service. Bonhoeffer carried messages to foreign contacts and helped arrange the passage of 14 Jews to safety in Switzerland…
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