The State of the World
At any given
time, one can scroll through Twitter (depending on who or what one follows) and
discover the current state of the battles of the sexes, the races, the
political parties, or the nations. Just tonight I found these gems:
·
Hundreds of illegal immigrants/asylum seekers
(?) rush the United States port of entry as they are repelled with tear gas.[1]
·
Newly elected Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez struggles
to find a place to live in Washington, D.C., yet will be responsible in shaping
national policy for at least the next two years.[2]
·
Journalist Laura Loomer was banned for
questioning an American politician’s support of female genital mutilation.[3]
·
A mother in Germany whose daughter was raped is
being prosecuted by the police for uploading a photo of her daughter’s attacker
to Facebook without his permission.[4]
We live in
this corrupt, confused, ridiculous world.
Is the world
God’s creation or is it a product of random, impersonal forces? Either of these
answers leads to entirely different approaches to life. If we view the world as
the creation of a loving, almighty God, then we will live our lives differently
than if we imagine the world accidentally happened into existence. If God
created the universe, then man has a purpose, for God, being an entity with
desires, intellect, and a will, must have a purpose for his creation. If the
universe is the product of happenstance, then we may have no purpose, or we may
define our own purpose, accidentally defined by the accidental firings of an
accidentally formed brain in an accidental universe. Either way, our beliefs
about the world define our worldview.
However we
view the world, we cannot escape faith. If the idea of God did not exist, then
we may honestly say that there is no such thing as faith. God as a concept does
exist, and to declare he does or does not exist is to make a statement of
belief. If all of existence was contained in our little world here, and science
exhaustively studied everything we perceive with our senses, and we infallibly
knew nothing existed beyond our sense, then we completely eliminate the idea of
faith. We would not even understand the word. This is not the case, however,
and everyone who lives has faith either to deny or affirm the existence of God.
Indeed, God has created us this way (Ecclesiastes 3.11; Romans 1.19-20). To say
God exists or doesn’t exist is to make a declaration beyond what we perceive
through our senses. Every person has faith, either positively or negatively.
What is a Worldview?
Our worldview
consists of our beliefs and how we respond to those beliefs as we live our
lives. If we believe that the universe is entirely without purpose, an
accidental event of the impersonal cosmos, then we are free to create whatever
purpose for our lives as we see fit. We are also free from purpose, left alone
in the void to wander aimlessly and hopelessly. We are responsible and
accountable to no one but ourselves. I am accountable to no one but myself, if
even that. If we are not accountable to God for our words and our
actions, how can we be accountable to each other to uphold the fragile
foundations of society? The less we are accountable to God, the less we are
accountable to each other, and the greater the force and violence of government
is required to maintain society. However, if we believe that God created us for
a purpose, then we are responsible to God to seek this purpose. We are
accountable to him for how we live our lives. If we hold ourselves individually
accountable to God to live well and righteously, with kindness and
unselfishness, then free society is possible, and less violence is required
from our government to maintain peace and liberty.
We can hardly
say that our worldview affects our beliefs on public policy, though we assume
that it should. While over 70% of white Evangelical Protestants oppose
abortion, only 41% of black Protestants and 44% of Catholics do. This may only
be the case for those who claim to believe in God however, as 80% of
religiously unaffiliated people support a woman’s right to an abortion.[6]
Data on religious and non-religious support of gay marriage reveals a similar
bent. Among evangelical Protestants, 64% oppose gay marriage, while 52% of
black Protestants, 34% of Catholics, and 35% of mainline Protestants do.
Non-religious people appear to be mostly united again, with 78% supporting gay
marriage.[7]
Even though Christians and Catholics are not as unified as non-religious
people, we can say that a Christian worldview has some effect on political
matters.
A religious
worldview greatly effects a personal sense of spiritual well-being. Evangelic
Protestant and black Protestant report a consistent (75% and 73%) sense of
spiritual peace and well-being (at least once a week). Jehovah’s Witnesses
(82%) and Mormons (81%) report the highest frequency of peace and well-being,
with Catholics (57%), mainline Protestants (56%), and Orthodox Christians (53%)
all reporting more than 50% experience a sense of spiritual peace at least once
a week. Hindu (40%), non-religious (40%) and the anomalous Jewish (39%) round
out the bottom.[8]
Our worldview
affects our moral choices. The person who does not believe in God may have
moral beliefs, but these beliefs do not have a strong foundation. The depraved
nature of man erodes the weak moral foundation of the unbeliever and of society
as the decades move forward. We see this as attitudes change towards such
public issues as homosexuality, drug use, polygamy, and even pedophilia.[9]
The believer has a foundation for morality. The Word of God serves as his
foundation and direction for morality. The Word of God doesn’t change (Isaiah
40.7, 8). God has given us the Ten Commandments to guide our moral choices. We
believe that murder, adultery, theft, and lying are immoral acts. These beliefs
guide and dictate our everyday lives. As believers in God, we strive to be
honest, to be kind, to respect the property and rights of others, and to tell
the truth. The believer’s worldview will absolutely affect his life.
The Christian Worldview
We believe
that God created us, that he created us for a purpose, and that we are
responsible to him to fulfill this purpose. I believe the Westminster Catechism
best describes our purpose. Written by the Westminster Assembly of Divines in
1647, the Church of England used the Catechism to teach the main truths of
scripture.[10]
According to the Catechism, “Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy
him forever.”[11]
This is my worldview.
Scripture
affirms this. The two most prolific and influential apostles exhort believers
to do all to God’s glory. Peter says, “Whoever speaks, is to do so as one who
is speaking the utterances of God; whoever serves is to do so as one who is
serving by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be
glorified through Jesus Christ”[12].
In our actions and words, Peter tells us to live for God’s glory. Paul concurs,
“Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of
God” (1 Corinthians 10.31). Puritan minister Thomas Watson (1620-1686) vividly
declares that “the glory of God is a silver thread which must run through all
our actions.”[13]
God proclaims the reasons for his actions are to uphold the goodness of his
name, closely identified with his glory. When the Israelites worshipped the
idols of Egypt, God says to Ezekiel
I resolved to pour out My
wrath on them, to accomplish My anger against them in the midst of the land of
Egypt. But I acted for the sake of My
name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom
they lived, in whose sight I made Myself known to them by bringing them out of
the land of Egypt. So I took them out of the land of Egypt and brought them
into the wilderness. I gave them My statutes and informed them of My
ordinances. [emphasis added][14]
Creation
shares our purpose. David says, “The heavens are telling of the glory of God;
and their expanse is declaring the work of his hands” (Psalm 19.1) When the
Pharisees urged Jesus to rebuke his disciples and keep them from praising him,
he told them, “If these become silent, the stones will cry out!” (Luke 19.40)
Paul says that God’s glorious creation removes every excuse that men have to
deny God’s existence (Romans 1.20).
We can only
glorify God if we know who he is, and we know God mainly through His word.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer lamented the loss of knowledge in his book, The Cost of
Discipleship. He says, “The real trouble is that the pure Word of Jesus has
been overlaid with so much human ballast—burdensome rules and regulations,
false hopes and consolations.”[15]
Men cloud the knowledge of God with their presumptions, and their prejudices,
and they assume they know the truth before they have even attempted to seek God
in his word. We who were made by God, can only find fulfillment in life through
knowledge of God. Theologian J.I. Packer says, “Disregard the study of God, and
you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded, as it
were, with no sense of direction and no understanding of what surrounds you.”[16]
Packer echoes the words of the psalmist who says, “Your word is a lamp to my
feet and a light to my path” and “The unfolding of your words gives light; it
gives understanding to the simple” (Psalm 119.105, 130).
We glorify
God when we trust in Him because trust magnifies his worth. Our trust reveals
our humility and our acknowledgement that we are nothing without him (John
15.5). John Piper says, “We have a God whose nature is such that what pleases
him is not our work for him but our need of him.”[17]
Scripture everywhere speaks of humility as the key which unlocks intimacy with
our Creator. David says, “The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves those
who are crushed in spirit” (Psalm 34.18) and “He leads the humble in justice
and he teaches the humble his way” (Psalm 25.9). He strengthens the heart of
the humble (Psalm 10.17) but he opposes the proud (1 Peter 5.5). God proclaims
blessing on the man who trusts in him (Jeremiah 17.7), but a curse on any man
who trusts in himself (17.5).
In Ethics, Bonhoeffer examines the account
of the Fall. Adam brought the curse on himself and all humanity when he ate of
the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Bonhoeffer says, “To
know good and evil is to know oneself as the origin of good and evil.”[18]
If we believe that we possess the knowledge of good and evil, rather than God,
we believe that we do not trust God to teach us right and wrong. We have
“become like God, but against God.”[19]
We refuse to trust in God, and we refuse to obey him as the source of knowledge
and truth.
We glorify
God as we obey him. We begin in trust and faith, as Paul says (Romans 1.17),
and we live in obedience by this trust. Whoever believes will obey, and whoever
obeys, believes.[20]
Obedience is the natural result of trust. If we believe that God loves us, we
will love each other (1 John 4.11). Christ commanded his disciples to love each
other because they believed that he loved them (John 13.34). Faith and
obedience must work together. Obedience without a heart full of faith does not
please God. God says to Isaiah, “To this one I will look, to him who is humble
and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at my word” (Isaiah 66.2), but he says
that sacrifice without humility is worthless violence (66.3). Likewise, faith
that does not obey is not true faith. James says that “faith, if it has no
works, is dead” (James 2.17). According to Bonhoeffer, “Faith is only real when
there is obedience, never without it, and faith becomes faith in the act of
obedience.”[21]
Faith creates obedience and obedience validates faith.
Obedience
will reveal itself as we interact with the world. We live in a country that
allows its citizens to vote and participate in establishing policy together.
Obedience to God’s word and Christ’s example will shine in our support and
opposition to various issues and political parties. God’s word tells us what he
expects, what he values, what he loves and what he hates. We have clear
direction to aid us in evaluating most if not all of the controversial issues
that we face. God has spoken to us about personal responsibility and morality,
yet many in America openly defy God’s direction.
The freedom
that we enjoy in the United States requires each individual to exercise
responsibility in every area of life. Each of us depend on each other to
respect the law, to work hard, to be honest, and to raise our children to do
the same. If this expectation were ever to generally fail, our nation would
crumble. When we drive in our vehicles, we obey the law and we trust that the
vast majority of the people will also obey the law. When we shop at the mall,
we trust that the vast majority of the people will respect each other’s
persons. We depend on each other when we engage in business, when we go to
work, when we drop our children off at school or send them on a plane to their
grandparents. Benjamin Franklin said, “Only a virtuous people are capable of
freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of
masters.” Without virtue, the nation will descend into lawlessness and chaos.
The authorities will then need greater and more severe forms of force to
maintain order, and then the country forfeits its freedom.
Personal
responsibility manifests in public policy. When government happily provides for
many basic needs, men ignore the duty they have to provide for themselves and
their families and rely on government. God has commanded us to be diligent
workers. Bonhoeffer writes, “It is God’s will that there shall be labour,
marriage, government, and church in the world.”[22]
Solomon says in Proverbs, “Poor is he who works with negligent hand, but the
hand of the diligent makes rich” (10.4). Welfare benefits and other entitlement
programs contribute to an increase in crime.[23]
Welfare benefits enable fathers to abdicate their familial responsibilities and
surrender them to the state. Children without fathers are twice as likely to
commit crime.[24] Studies
also link out-of-wedlock births to welfare. Michael Tanner writes, “By removing
the economic consequences of an out-of-wedlock birth, welfare has removed a
major incentive to avoid such pregnancies.”[25]
Welfare discourages out-of-wedlock mothers from marrying in the future.[26]
When fathers do not participate in the rearing of their children, the children
lack direction, instruction, and moral guidance. Many believers contend that
welfare is “compassionate” and “Christian”, while they fail to realize that
Christ did not command the state to care for the poor, but the individual
believer (Matthew 25.31-46; Luke 18.22). He commands us to visit the prisoner,
and feed and clothe the poor. Compassion does not involve surrendering our
taxes to a wasteful state to distribute without wisdom to whoever holds out
their hand or refuses to work.
Compassion
also requires a measure of wealth that surpasses meeting our basic needs.
Christ says that we will always have the poor (Matthew 26.11), but we cannot
show compassion if government assumes responsibility for meeting the needs of
all its citizens. Currently, two economic systems battle for dominance between
the two political parties. In socialism, the ideal of the Democrat Party, the
citizen gives the majority of his wealth and income to the state, and the state
redistributes this wealth as it sees fit. In capitalism, men earn according to
their ability and diligence and keep the majority of their wealth. Socialism
destroys both diligence and compassion by destroying incentive. We are selfish
by nature, but if we keep little that we earn, we have no reason to work nor do
we have anything to give. Paul says, “If anyone is not willing to work, then he
is not to eat” (2 Thessalonians 3.10), and “he who sows bountifully will also
reap bountifully” (2 Corinthians 9.6). When a powerful state taxes its people
heavily, and redistributes wealth wastefully, it removes not only diligence but
charity.
Emotionalism
substitutes for compassion in modern politics. The left side of American
politics weeps and wails over the plight of citizens of other countries, and
supports their illegal entry into this one. Christians who oppose illegal
immigration for being an illegal and illegitimate way of solving a problem are
condemned as “unchristian” and “not compassionate”, but if anyone challenges
these accusers to travel to other countries and feed the poor or clothe the
naked, they sit in silence. Weeping and wailing, while causing no discernible
change in the world, pacifies the lazy conscience of the leftist. In the
household where Bonhoeffer grew up, “Emotionalism, like sloppy communication,
was thought to be self-indulgent.”[27]
Indeed, emotionalism contributes nothing to the current discourse. Emotionalism
complains, and complaints without solutions only serve to anger and frustrate.
In our case, emotionalism drives one side to the voting booths so that others
will pretend to solve the problem, when in reality the elected authorities have
no interest in solving problems, but only in maintaining power. Lazy
emotionalism continues.
God commands
his people to love him from the heart, but also with the mind. He has given us
a mind and also his spirit to discern right from wrong and know how to act. God
commands all believers to love each other and to clothe and feed the poor. God
does not command us to support illegal activity as a means of compassion, as
some people confuse illegal immigration to be. God commands us to go, to give
our time, money, and energy. God does not command us to murder our unborn
children or our sick in order to improve our quality of life or prevent a low
quality of life.
The Democrat
party supports abortion, euthanasia, gay marriage, transgenderism, open
borders, and government entitlement programs, among many others. Every single
one of these positions openly defies God’s commands. Abortion destroys a
person, when God commands to not murder (Exodus 20.13). David said, “In sin my
mother conceived me” (Psalm 51.5). Every person has a soul from conception, and
the Democrat party relishes the power that abortion gives them over life and
death. They find the same power in euthanizing the sick and elderly. Doctors in
Belgium euthanize children with cystic fibrosis, a treatable disease.[28]
Doctors are allowed to terminate the life of any child who makes the request.
God alone has the authority to give and end life. He says to Israel, “There is
no God besides me; it is I who put to death and give life” (Deuteronomy 32.39).
When we usurp his authority and take a life, we declare ourselves independent
of his authority and we return to the Garden of Eden to eat again of the Tree of
the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
God has
defined marriage as the union between one man and one woman (Genesis 2.18-24).
He has defined gender as male and female (Genesis 1.27). Paul says that as
believers, our body is a temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 6.19) and he
exhorts us to glorify God in our body (1 Corinthians 6.20). Liberals defy God
by supporting gay marriage, homosexuality, and other forms of sexual
perversion. I do not even oppose the legal unions of men to men and women to
women, but to call that “marriage” is open defiance to God’s word. Certain
groups advocate men having sexual relationships with boys.[29]
Transgenderism, formerly known as gender dysphoria, has gained traction as an
acceptable state of being, rather than a mental illness. Paul condemns these
distortions of sexual identity (Romans 1.24-27). God created man for a purpose,
and his biological sex defines his purpose as much as his relationship to God.
We relate to God as men and as women. God has defined our responsibilities to
each other in terms of our gender. God commands men to sacrifice (Ephesians
5.23, 25) and women to submit and trust (Ephesians 5.22; 1 Peter 3.1). When we
confuse our masculinity or femininity, we confuse our duties as believers to
God and each other. Elisabeth Elliot writes of the “glorious distinction” of
sexuality. She says, “I dare to call it even a glorious inequality, so that we
may understand how important it is and how utterly noninterchangeable men and
women are. If we understand it, we will rejoice in it.”[30]
Many of our
nation’s founders believed in God. Many Americans do today also. Most settlers
came to America searching for the freedom to practice their religion.[31]
Historians Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen write that “America … operated on
an understanding that the nation would adopt an unofficial, generic
Christianity that fit hand in glove with republicanism.”[32]
As Benjamin Franklin said, a free nation requires virtue. True virtue requires
faith in God, yet if America opens its borders indiscriminately, we weaken our
national beliefs because not everyone believes as we do. Democrats support open
borders as a means of maintaining power without regard to preserving a culture
that largely values law and order, personal responsibility, or respect for life
and property. Though illegal immigrants are not allowed to vote, many do[33],
and of those who do, 54% identify with the Democrat, party, as opposed to 19%
who identify with the Republican Party.[34]
Europe has largely adopted a policy of allowing the entrance of thousands of
immigrants who do not share the values of the permitting country. Dramatic
increases in riots[35],
rape[36],
and various other forms of crime[37]
have resulted. If America pursues the same policy of indiscriminate
immigration, we will face a similar future. Illegal immigrants break the law by
definition. If they have no respect for the law when they enter the country,
how can we expect them to respect the law after they have entered it? Scripture
asserts the need for borders. When the Israelites entered the land of Canaan,
God commanded them to “utterly destroy” all the inhabitants (Deuteronomy 7.2).
The Canaanites worshipped other gods, they sacrificed their children to their
idols (2 Kings 16.3), and God knew they would turn the hearts of the Israelites
away from him (7.4). When King Solomon married foreign wives and took foreign
concubines, he began to turn away from God and the nation followed with him (1
Kings 11). Countries have borders to preserve their values and customs. If
there are no borders, there are no countries and no people. A government
protects its people by protecting its values and its borders.
Religion and Politics
“The cross is
laid on every Christian,” says Bonhoeffer.[38]
Christ commands us to seek him in his word, yet many prefer to trust the words
of anyone else, rather than, with reason, diligently pursue a Christian
worldview. If we don’t know what to believe, someone else will tell us what
they want us to believe. In 2006, I began working at Kern County for the Engineering
and Survey Services Department. I rode in an enormous survey truck with a
coworker who listened to conservative talk radio. As I listened, I realized
that I agreed with everything these people had to say. Previously, I agreed
with the men and women who preached “compassion” through shallow emotionalism.
Conservatism takes its stand largely from Scripture, though obviously
conservatism does not equal Christianity, or discipleship, or the sacrifice
Christ calls us to. Those ventures across Kern County greatly influenced my
political mind, but God had already begun work on my spiritual mind and heart
years earlier. I “grew up” spiritually reading about Elisabeth Elliot on
masculinity and the sacrifice of her husband Jim Elliot, reading John Piper and
Thomas Watson talk about God’s passion for his glory, and reading J.I. Packer
tell of theology as the grandest study of all. Bonhoeffer writes, “When Christ
calls a man, he bids him come and die.”[39]
I choose to vote as a conservative, but I choose to live as a disciple.
Glorifying God involves trusting Christ and obeying his word. It requires the
daily death of humility in acknowledging sin, of diligence in seeking Christ,
of trust in God as we surrender ourselves to love other people who may not love
us in return.
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attitudes towards psychedelic drugs in Berkeley and beyond”, April 24, 2017. http://www.dailycal.org/2017/04/23/psychedelic-revolution-changing-attitudes-towards-psychedelic-drugs-berkeley-beyond/
Polygamy: While
polygamy isn’t mainstream, the fact that a national publication acknowledges
their “fight” to become mainstream shows that either public attitudes are
changing or this national publication wants them to change.
John Pomfret, “Polygamists fight to be seen as part of
mainstream society”, November 21, 2006. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/21/AR2006112100206.html?
Andrew Dugan, “Moral acceptance of Polygamy at Record
high—but why?”, July 28, 2017. https://news.gallup.com/opinion/polling-matters/214601/moral-acceptance-polygamy-record-high-why.aspx
Pedophilia: Mirjam
Heine at the University of Wurzburg argues that pedophilia is an “unchangeable
sexual orientation”. This video has since been removed from YouTube, but copies
exist.
Mirjam Heine, “Pedophilia is a natural sexual
orientation”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNr3yhjQPI8
In 1997, Mary Kay Letourneau engaged in an affair with
her then sixth grade student, Vili Fualaau. Many publications published stories
of the incident, often seeming fairly sympathetic.
[10]
Thomas Watson, A Body of Divinity,
(Carlisle: Banner of Truth Trust, reprinted 1992), pages 1-5.
[11]
Westminster Assembly of Divines, Westminster
Shorter Catechism, “I. Man’s Chief End.”
[12]
Lockman Foundation, New American Standard Bible, 1995 Update, 1 Peter 4.11
[13]
Watson, 6.
[14]
Ezekiel 20.8-11
[15]
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship, (New York: Simon and
Schuster, 1959), page 35.
[16]
J.I. Packer, Knowing God, (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1993),
page 19.
[17]
John Piper, The Pleasures of God,
(Portland, Multnomah: 1991), page 222).
[18]
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics, (New
York: Simon and Schuster, 1955), page 23.
[19]
Ibid, 23.
[20]
Bonhoeffer, Cost, 63.
[21]
Bonhoeffer, Cost, 64.
[22]
Bonhoeffer, Ethics, 204.
[23]
Michael D. Tanner, “Relationship between the Welfare State and Crime.” Cato
Institute (June 7, 1995). https://www.cato.org/publications/congressional-testimony/relationship-between-welfare-state-crime-0
[24]
Tanner.
[25]
Tanner.
[26]
Tanner.
[27]
Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr,
Prophet, Spy, (Nashville: Nelson Books, 2010), page 15.
[28]
Charles Lane, “Children are being euthanized in Beligum”, The Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/children-are-being-euthanized-in-belgium/2018/08/06/9473bac2-9988-11e8-b60b-1c897f17e185_story.html
[29]
North American Man Boy Love Association, for example.
[30]
Elisabeth Elliot, The Mark of a Man,
(Tarrytown, Fleming H. Revell Company, 1981), page 30.
[31]
Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen, A
Patriot’s History of the United States, (New York: Penguin Books, 2007),
page 96.
[32]
Ibid, 97.
[33]
Rowan Scarborough, “Study supports Trump: 5.7 million noncitizens may have cast
illegal votes”. The Washington Times,
June 19, 2017. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jun/19/noncitizen-illegal-vote-number-higher-than-estimat/
[34]
Eileen Patten and Mark Hugo Lopez, “Are unauthorized immigrants overwhelmingly
Democrats?”, Pew Research Center, July 22, 2013. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/07/22/are-unauthorized-immigrants-overwhelmingly-democrats/
[35]
Brett T., “WARZONE: Those ‘youths’ in Sweden seem to be rioting and torching
cars again”. Twitchy, August 13, 2018. https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2018/08/13/warzone-those-youths-in-sweden-seem-to-be-rioting-and-torching-cars-again-video/
[36]
Tom Wyke, et al, “Migrant rape fears spread across Europe: Women told not to go
out at night alone after assaults carried out in Sweden, Finland, Germany,
Austria and Switzerland amid warnings gangs are co-ordinating attacks”,
DailyMail, August 15, 2018. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3390168/Migrant-rape-fears-spread-Europe-Women-told-not-night-assaults-carried-Sweden-Finland-Germany-Austria-Switzerland-amid-warnings-gangs-ordinating-attacks.html
[37]
Grace Guarnieri, “MIGRANTS IN EUROPE LINKED TO SOARING VIOLENCE AND CRIME IN
GERMANY, STUDY FINDS”. Newsweek,
January 13, 2018, https://www.newsweek.com/migrants-europe-violence-crime-germany-study-770105
[38]
Bonhoeffer, Cost, 89.
[39]
Ibid.
