Since This is Election Time in Canada

[noticed at Jordon Cooper in this context]

For Bonhoeffer, Hitler or no Hitler, the peace and justice of any social order might try to achieve was impossible without truth. "There can only be a community of peace when it does not rest on lies and injustice." The mistake of Anglo-Saxon thought is the subordination of truth of justice to the ideal of peace. Indeed, such a view assumes that the very existence of peace is proof that truth and justice have prevailed. Yet such a view is illusory...

---from Performing the Faith by Stanley M. Hauerwas