About this episode

The episode explores the claim by Dietrich Bonhoeffer that stupidity is more dangerous than evil and its relevance to contemporary political issues.

Mid-twentieth century theologian and philosopher Dietrich Bonhoeffer claimed that stupidity is more dangerous than evil. Can that claim be applied to MAGA? Dame Magazine: The Four Ideas That Explain America's Democratic Crisis Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/thethinkingatheist--3270347/support .

People in this episode

Host: The Thinking Atheist

Topics covered

• stupidity
• evil
• MAGA
• democracy
• philosophy
• theology

Keywords

• stupidity
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• MAGA
• democracy
• theology
• philosophy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Dame Magazine

Books & works: The Four Ideas That Explain America's Democratic Crisis

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