““Bultmann compellingly suggests to his readers in 1941 that precisely therein does the state as embodied by Pilate still distinguish itself from the German state of the present day. For since it no longer preserves even the appearance of law, the National Socialist state can in no way claim itself to be what the New Testament intends by that term. This perverted state is nothing but a manifestation of the cosmos at enmity with God. It is institutionalized evil.””
