Talk:Confessing Church

This article desperately needs a POV header. Not once, not twice, but at least three times we have mentioned that the Confessing Church did not oppose the Nazi policy regarding the Jews. Not only is this factually incomplete, it's overkill. Someone has an axe to grind and it shows. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.187.129.100 (talk) 09:22, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

^ I completely agree with the above. Someone's afraid of the idea of Christians who did the right thing (or at least something like that). 75.141.114.24 (talk) 05:15, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

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This article needs cleaning up. There needs to be some scholarly reference and proper citation to have any credibility. --JECompton 07:15, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

The description of the Confessing Church as 'crypto-Christian' only applies, if at all, to a tiny group. Norvo 03:17, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

"Many of the leaders..." of the Confessing Church were sent to concentration camps? In fact, only a small minority of CC members, like Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Harald Poelchau, actively sought to overthrow the Nazi regime. The CC in general was not opposed to the regime as such, only to the Nazis' totalitarian approach to church politics. The CC in general can hardly be called a resistance movement. 87.169.50.73 00:28, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

This article seems to start repeating itself halfway down Edmund1989

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I would like to see this article longer and with more detail. By and large I have found the Protestant churches to be full of simony and greed and hypocrisy, and I have found Bonhoeffer to be a shining light in the darkness, a Protestant who actually is willing to forsake money and safety for truth, and by extension I have assumed the Confession Church to be likewise a symbol that not all Protestantism is mired in greed and fear. I would very much like to have this article be more historical and detailed, protraying the history however ugly or beautiful (most likely both, and mixed, and tawdry, as is so often the condition). I would also love to see a treatment of the parallels between this "divine test" in Nazi Germany, and the recent years in the US, when the US publicly embraced torture, and apparently the Protestant Churches in the US did not oppose it. The parallel would be not perfect by any means, and sufficiently controversial that I'm sure all the rabid nuts would try to derail any discussion, so I suspect wikipedia is too hostage to the US right-wing for such a treatment in this day, but perhaps one day, with more time and more capability for objectivity, I may see such a treatment here. ~~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hassid (talk • contribs) 02:12, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Sounds like a good idea for a magazine article, but not really appropriate for an encyclopedia article. If you think the article needs to be improved, then the best way to make sure that happens is to improve it yourself. Josh (talk) 20:54, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Protestant Reich Church article

In my reorganization of the Protestant Reich Church aritcle, I removed alot of material as it was all about the Confessing Church. Some of it might fit well with this article. Ltwin (talk) 10:07, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

Schismatic?

I have read a bit on the subject (Donald Bloesch's Christian Foundations Series: The Church) and I think it is incorrect to refer to the confessing church as schismatic in the lead sentence. Schismatic refers to splitting away or separating into a new group. I was surprised to see this term used. It should be changed. Sectarian would be incorrect too. ...was a movement within the Protestant Churches would be more accurate and less open to misunderstanding. DMSBel (talk) 03:45, 31 January 2011 (UTC)