Good Eats and Thoughts of a Contemplative Feeler

                In 1933, German Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer released his essay "The Church and the Jewish Question" in response to the implementation of the Aryan paragraph, which excluded Jews and Slovaks from being members of organizations and professions that adopted the law. Bonhoeffer observed that God has divinely mandated the state (aka government) to maintain law and order. The church is not responsible in questioning how the state maintains law and order UNLESS the state ceases being the state; this happens when there is too little law and order or too much law and order. Too little law/order occurs when a group of people are deprived of their rights while too much law/order occurs when the state robs the church and Christians from their right to proclaim the message of the gospel. In the case of either, the church is called to action in three possibilities: question the state and its actions and hold it responsible; ser...