Reinhold Niebuhr

Continuing the last post, some excerpts on the man from his Wikipedia entry:

"At the outbreak of World War II, the pacifist component of his liberalism was challenged. Niebuhr began to distance himself from the pacifism of his more liberal colleagues and became a staunch advocate for the war. Niebuhr soon left the Fellowship of Reconciliation, a peace-oriented group of theologians and ministers, and became one of their harshest critics. [...] Niebuhr declared that a victory by Germany and Japan would threaten Christianity.* [...] With his publication of Moral Man and Immoral Society (1932), Niebuhr [...] supported interventionism and power politics. He supported the reelection of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940."

* Not to mention democracy.