Helena Blavatsky has taken the position of her Lutheran belief by saying in "Isis Unveiled" p321: "When a Buddhist monk becomes guilty, ... he has neither a congregation of tender-hearted members, whom he can move to tears by an eloquent confession of his guilt, nor a Jesus, on whose overburdened, long-suffering bosom are flung, as in a common Christian dust-box, all the impurities of the race. No Buddhist transgressor can comfort himself with visions of a VATICAN, within whose sin-encompassing walls black is turned into white, murderers into sinless saints, and golden or silvery lotions can be bought at the confessional to cleanse the tardy penitent of greater or lesser offenses against God and man."

Just like Jesus, Bonhoeffer proclaimed the gospel to the German people by quoting: John 7,49 "But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed."