Newsmax used a Nov. 13 article to capture a tirade by Tucker Carlson:
Tucker Carlson has ignited a wave of outrage across the conservative and Christian worlds after claiming that Dietrich Bonhoeffer — the anti-Nazi theologian executed by Adolf Hitler’s regime in 1945 — had “decided … Christianity is not enough, we have to kill the guy [Hitler],” suggesting the German pastor ultimately advocated murder.
The remark came during Carlson’s latest episode, which focused heavily on attacking commentators Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro and claiming they routinely label political opponents as “Nazis.”
“Once you start calling people Nazis, we really have no choice but to start shooting them,” Carlson said.
“To be Dietrich Bonhoeffer and sort of reach the end of reason, or even Christianity … Bonhoeffer decided Christianity’s not even — he was a Lutheran pastor — Christianity is not enough, we have to kill the guy,” he said.
Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran pastor and founding member of the Christian resistance movement known as the Confessing Church, was imprisoned for helping Jewish Germans escape to Switzerland.
He was later linked to the resistance circle involved in the failed July 20, 1944, plot to assassinate Hitler.
His hanging in April 1945 at the Flossenbürg concentration camp in Bavaria by the Third Reich made him one of Christianity’s most revered martyrs of the 20th century.
Carlson’s framing of Bonhoeffer as someone who “advocated murder” stunned Christian leaders, theologians, and historians — and reignited a separate firestorm engulfing the Heritage Foundation.
Given that the Media Research Center refused to cover the Heritage anti-Semitism controversy, you will not be surprised that it also refused to cover this as well — indeed, the MRC hasn’t even mentioned Bonhoeffer since 2019. WorldNetDaily hasn’t mentioned the Carlson controversy either. You’d think it would be different given much both organizations bought into the Bonhoeffer narrative during the Obama years.