Comments on: Why the Vatican Hates Liberation Theology

By: Best Of Pop Occulture (Classic Era) - [tmbchr]â„¢

Best Of Pop Occulture (Classic Era) - [tmbchr]â„¢ — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:59:06 +0000

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By: Occult Investigator » Radical Consumerism

Occult Investigator » Radical Consumerism — Sun, 29 May 2005 21:39:33 +0000

[...] he media, because their Protestant â€œpriesthood of all believersâ€, their reality-tunnel Liberation Theology, threatens the very structure of the [...]

By: Occult Investigator » Anarcho-Gnosticism

Occult Investigator » Anarcho-Gnosticism — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 00:14:07 +0000

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By: Occult Investigator » The Joseph Campbell of Conspiracy Theory

Occult Investigator » The Joseph Campbell of Conspiracy Theory — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 21:39:30 +0000

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By: ES

ES — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 19:57:34 +0000

…but it is inherently anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian which to most people make it COMMUNIST…no one ever said 90% of people referring to something as Marxist hadn’t ever read Das Kapital in the first place….

By: Mateo

Mateo — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 23:43:56 +0000

I posted about liberation theology on my website, if you want to read it. Essentially, liberation theology is an outgrowth of Vatican II which sought to find new ways to fight increasing secularization and disinterest in the church. They did this by making it more democratic and by focusing on human rights. At CELAM the Latin American priests took this further and declared that salvation started on earth, that poverty was sinful, and that Jesus was a liberator of the poor. They did adopt some criticisms of capitalism, but they were by no means marxists. Some priests did work side by side with marxists in opposing right-winged military dictatorships (which, if you know anything about the era, were highly highly oppressive), and some probably even became marxists themselves. But liberation theology is not inherently marxist, by any stretch of the imagination.