The time when people could be told everything by means of words, whether
theological or pious, is over, and so is the time of inwardness and
conscience--and that means the time of religion in general. We are moving toward
a completely religionless time; people as they are now simply cannot be
religious anymore. Even those who honestly describe themselves as "religious" do
not in the least act up to it, and so they presumably mean something quite
different by "religious."
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letter to Eberhard Bethage, April, 1944
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