Pope Francis, the latest #NeverTrumper?

Canada Free Press ^ | 10/03/16 | Judi McLeod

[Sean_Anthony]

Someone should tell this pope, who seems far more political than papal, that Barack Hussein Obama espouses hatred and that He espouses Obama

In 2008 hate was let loose from the genie’s bottle on the western world. It was released by a man from an obscure and unvetted background whose visceral hatred of America knew no match.

Hatred was always a frightening and unwelcome part of human history, but until Barack Hussein Obama happened along, it was for generations generally kept hidden under the proverbial rock.

Once released on the western world, Obama’s visceral hatred, you could say, hit the ground running. Like a raging plague, it rushed to awaken all of those waiting to welcome its day of return. Instead of finding itself shunned, Obama’s hatred gathered steam and now marches toward surrealistic victory in the 2016 election.

[Texas Eagle]

Someone should tell this pope, who seems far more political than papal, that Barack Hussein Obama espouses hatred and that He espouses Obama

Well, duh. If he wants to keep those billions of taxpayers dollars rolling in for Catholic "charities", he better espouse (from the Latin "to kiss one's ass") Obama.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The Church would not take a stand against Obama, and he practically declared war on them through Obamacare.

[Carl Vehse]

In 1537 Dr. Martin Luther stated: "Therefore, just as little as we can worship the devil himself as Lord and God, we can endure his apostle, the Pope, or Antichrist, in his rule as head or lord. For to lie and to kill, and to destroy body and soul eternally, that is wherein his papal government really consists, as I have very clearly shown in many books." (Smalcald Articles, Part II, Article IV: Of the Papacy, Para. 14)

[ETL]

"Someone should tell this pope, who seems far more political than papal, that Barack Hussein Obama espouses hatred"

The pope and Obama are birds of the same left-wing feather. Both are proponents of communist-concocted "Black Liberation Theology".

Obama's Church: Gospel of Hate
Kathy Shaidle, FrontPageMag.com
Monday, April 07, 2008

In March of 2007, FOX News host Sean Hannity had engaged Obama's pastor in a heated interview about his Church's teachings. For many viewers, the ensuing shouting match was their first exposure to "Black Liberation Theology"...

Like the pro-communist Liberation Theology that swept Central America in the 1980s and was repeatedly condemned by Pope John Paul II, Black Liberation Theology combines warmed-over 1960s vintage Marxism with carefully distorted biblical passages. However, in contrast to traditional Marxism, it emphasizes race rather than class. The Christian notion of "salvation" in the afterlife is superseded by "liberation" on earth, courtesy of the establishment of a socialist utopia.

http://web.archive.org/web/20090321190904/http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=30CD9E14-B0C9-4F8C-A0A6-A896F0F44F02
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Catholics for Marx [Liberation Theology]
By Fr. Robert Sirico
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, June 03, 2004

In the days when the Superpowers were locked in a Cold War, Latin America seethed with revolution, and millions lived behind an iron curtain, a group of theologians concocted a novel idea within the history of Christianity. They proposed to combine the teachings of Jesus with the teachings of Marx as a way of justifying violent revolution to overthrow the economics of capitalism.

The Gospels were re-rendered not as doctrine impacting on the human soul but rather as windows into the historical dialectic of class struggle. These "liberation theologians" saw every biblical criticism of the rich as a mandate to expropriate the expropriating owners of capital, and every expression of compassion for the poor as a call for an uprising by the proletarian class of peasants and workers.

http://web.archive.org/web/20090321190909/http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=460782B7-35CC-4C9E-A2C5-93832067C7CD

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Re: James Cone, founder of "Black Liberation Theology":

SEAN HANNITY: But Reverend Jeremiah Wright is not backing down and has not for years and in his strong stance on the teaching of black liberation theology is nothing new. He had the same things to say last spring when he appeared on "Hannity & Colmes:"

WRIGHT: If you're not going to talk about theology in context, if you're not going to talk about liberation theology that came out of the '60s, systematized black liberation theology that started with Jim Cone in 1968 and the writings of Cone and the writings of Dwight Hopkins and the writings of womynist theologians and Asian theologians and Hispanic theologians, then you can't talk about the black value system.

HANNITY: But I'm a - reverend

WRIGHT: Do you know liberation theology, sir?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354158,00.html
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The Black church and Marxism: what do they have to say to each other
by Cone, James H. 1938- . Harrington, Michael 1928-1989

https://archive.org/details/TheBlackChurchAndMarxismWhatDoTheyHaveToSayToEachOther
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REVEREND WRIGHT: If you're not going to talk about theology in context, if you're not going to talk about liberation theology that came out of the '60s, systematized black liberation theology that started with Jim Cone in 1968 and the writings of Cone..."

[ETL]

Liberation Theology and the KGB

Jay Richards | February 2, 2010

The presence of Marxism in liberation theology is well-known, at least to seminarians who are critical readers. Practically every seminarian reads Gustavo Gutierrez's Theology of Liberation at some point, but most laypeople find it hard to believe that there could have been (and continues to be) a widespread attempt to hybridize Christian theology and Marxism.

Marxist regimes obviously benefited from the spread of liberation theology in the churches. Still, I was not aware of any connections between liberation theology and communist clandestine organizations until now.

A new article by Robert D. Chapman in the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence begins to connect some dots. In "The Church in Revolution," Chapman, "a retired operations officer in the Clandestine Services Division of the Central Intelligence Agency," argues that the KGB infiltrated the Russian Orthodox Church through Metropolitan Nikodim, the Russian Orthodoxy's second-ranking prelate. Nikodim was a proponent of liberation theology. Nikodim was active in the otherwise-Protestant World Council of Churches. And the WCC, of course, became an actively left-wing organization during the last half of the 20th century.

Chapman also details the growth of liberation theology in Latin America-and the Vatican's struggles with it-and the growth of black liberation theology in the United States. Prominent proponents of the latter include James Cone and Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

The arguments of liberation theologians should be challenged on their merits. The source of an argument, after all, doesn't establish its truth or falsity. Still, it's interesting to learn that liberation theology may have been, at least in part, a project of the KGB.

Unfortunately, this isn't just history. Chapman concludes ominously:

"the Theology of Liberation doctrine is one of the most enduring and powerful to emerge from the KGB's headquarters. The doctrine asks the poor and downtrodden to revolt and form a Communist government, not in the name of Marx or Lenin, but in continuing the work of Jesus Christ, a revolutionary who opposed economic and social discrimination.

A friend of mine, a head of Catholic social services in my area and formerly a priest, is a liberation theologian. He has made a number of humanitarian trips to Central America and told me, "liberation theology is alive and well." The same can be said of its sibling in the United States [ie, Black Liberation Theology]."

http://www.aei-ideas.org/2010/02/liberation-theology-and-the-kgb/

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More on Liberation Theology and the Soviets

Catholic News Agency ^ | 5/15/2015 | Alejandro Bermudez

If the Soviet bloc wasn't the mother of liberation theology, it was certainly a sinister stepmother, enlisting Catholics in a geopolitical cause and inviting them to sell their souls for funding and support.

Only the naive can disregard the mountain of evidence connecting liberation theology with Soviet action in the region.

(Excerpt) Read more at catholicnewsagency.com ...

[sarasota]

More fear over the loss of the status quo.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Ah yes, let's resurrect the finest distillates of 16th century malice.

Why don't you republish "Von den Juden und ihren Lügen," Luther's 65,000-word antisemitic screed urging merciless persecution of those "poisoned, envenomed worms," the Jews? Luther probably hated them as much as he hated the papists.

[butlerweave]

Another Soros check arrived ?

[Carl Vehse]

Why don't you republish "Von den Juden und ihren Lügen"

Because the Lutheran Church has accepted the Smalcald Articles as a correct and unadulterated explanation of the truths of God's Word, the Holy Bible.

"Von den Juden und ihren Lügen" was not accepted.

[Mrs. Don-o]

This does not make sense. You say the "Smalcald Articles" are an unadulterated explanation of the Bible, and you quote it blasting the Papacy which did not even exist --- or so Protestants tell me--- at the time the Bible was written.

To accept this moral defamation of the Papacy as Luther's opinion is one thing; to accept it as a correct and unadulterated explanation of Biblical truth is fanaticism --- which is what leads to the Wars of Religion. Sixteenth century: Europe's first attempt at suicide.

I would rather we lived in peace and prayed for one another.

[HarleyLady27]

LOL....I would NOT put to much stock in this man...as a Catholic, I find him to be ‘out of his mind’!!!

[pepsi_junkie]

For this Pope, leftist dogma outranks Catholic doctrine. He's popular because he tells people who are hostile to the church that they are right to be so, and because he tells people that it's okay to stop practicing the faith, absolving them of the guilt they feel for not showing up, not following the teachings, etc. People just love being let off the hook. OF course this harms the church as people are freed to simply abandon it while cheering for their new hero Francis.

But he own personal popularity will fade into the distance with the years and the damage to the Church will be permanent. And many of those who leave will find that having no faith to draw on, no discipline to it, feel adrift and will gravitate to something that says "this is truth, we have it and we know it!" Some will go to Islam, some to evangelical movements, others to nonsense like wiccan. But never back to the "open and welcoming but soft and squishy" Catholic church after Francis.

We've seen this before with Vatican II and for 40 years people wondered why church attendance and vocations were dramatically down since that reform was so popular. History repeats.

[Carl Vehse]

The prophecies of the Holy Scriptures concerning the Antichrist, 2 Thess. 2:3-12; 1 John 2:18, have been fulfilled in the Pope of Rome and his dominion. These are explained in the Smalcald Articles, Part II, Article IV: Of the Papacy, as well as another Lutheran confessional Symbol, The Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope, subscribed by the theologians and princes at the Assembly at Smalcald in 1537.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Do all the Lutheran church bodies accept the Smalcald Articles? (I don't think they do, do they? --- But you can let me know.) I won't take the bait, I won't react to this continuous re-stoking of 16th century religious belligerence.

I think we should live in peace and pray for one another.

[Carl Vehse]

@15: "Do all the Lutheran church bodies accept the Smalcald Articles?"

A Lutheran, and a Lutheran Church, is defined as one that accepts without reservation the Scriptures of the Old and the New Testament as the written Word of God and the only rule and norm of faith and of practice, and accepts without reservation the Lutheran Confessions contained in the Book of Concord of 1580 as a true and correct exposition of the Word of God.

Some churches claim to be Lutheran but accept only some of the Lutheran Confessions, or only conditionally accept them, or teach doctrine contrary to the Lutheran Confessions. Such church bodies can be described as "Lufauxran."

[SaraJohnson]

Obama is in line with the Pope’s liberation theology.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Some would describe themselves as “Sola Scriptura”.

[Carl Vehse]

@18: Some would describe themselves as “Sola Scriptura”.

Sola Scriptura is a Latin phrase that describes one of the Lutheran confessional principles stated in the Lutheran Symbol, Epitome of the Formula of Concord (paras 1-2):

“We believe, teach, and confess that the only rule and guiding principle according to which all teachings and teachers are to be evaluated and judged are the prophetic and apostolic writings of the Old and New Testaments alone, as it is written Ps. 119:105: Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. And St. Paul: Though an angel from heaven preach any other gospel unto you, let him be accursed, Gal. 1:8.

"Other writings of ancient or contemporary teachers, whatever their names may be, shall not be regarded as equal to Holy Scripture, but all of them together shall be subjected to it."

[Mrs. Don-o]

Yes, I know.