Considering the destructive oppression of the Third Reich, Bonhoeffer returns to a practical—but radical, almost unthinkable—outcome of having our lives centered in the living God. “Only because God became human is it possible to know and not despise real human beings. Real human beings may live before God and we may let these real people live beside us and before God without either despising or idolizing them. This is not because of the real human being’s inherent value, but because God has loved and taken on the real human being” (87).
