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January 31, 2015
“Liberation theology”
“Liberation theology” was from its beginning in the spirit of the Great Lie.
It is a vicious and an ugly lie, this nonsense about “Christ’s preferential option for the poor,” to the stench of which we have been too long subjected. It still reeks, through almost all “engaged” contemporary journalism, and poisons every clarion call for “equality.” It dishonours the poor. There should be no surprise that there are few vocations, and that the Church withers wherever it is taught (as it has done throughout Latin America). For it is not to make the rich poorer, nor the poor richer, in any worldly sense, that Christ came to us. It was instead to teach the rich and poor alike, from that first Beatitude, how to be poor in spirit. Unless this teaching is made clear, our Christian leaders turn their backs on Our Lord, and defraud us of our true heritage — giving their children who want the bread of Heaven, the stone of a very earthly avarice and resentment.Of halcyon nests : Essays in Idleness
Posted by gerardvanderleun at January 31, 2015 8:32 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Liberation Theology was always thinly disguised communism wrapped in a few Biblical terms. The proponents were less interested in glorifying God and obeying him than equalizing economics and redistributing wealth. Their entire focus was not and is not on the eternal but on the corporeal and present.
Christ died to save souls, he was largely unconcerned with bodies. He was compassionate (feeding the 5000) but knew there were greater stakes involved. What good does it do a man to save his body and lose his soul? Who cares if you're rich or poor on earth if you spend eternity in damnation?
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at January 31, 2015 3:26 PM