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# The fight for self-preservation
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/20041022the-fight-for-self-preservation-html/
- Published: 2004-10-22T11:21:56.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-15T15:35:23.000Z
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Blog, Dying Church, #DashHouseCom, #wp

*This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church”*

> During these years the Church has fought for self-preservation as though it were an end in itself, and has thereby lost its chance to speak a word of reconciliation to humanity and to the world at large. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer, [*Letters and Papers from Prison*](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684838273/dashhouse-20?ref=dashhouse.com))