Posted on 06/16/2015 10:59:36 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
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 benefitted 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/
Yes, the common link being, both the islamo-nazis and the communist left hate and want to destroy the West.
Obama’s idea of spreading the wealth around to a non-compliant nation...is bringing the refugees here ....it’s “Colonization”
just like his daddy taught him.
Either way ...we pay.
If only she had done the right thing and told them” “Take those rags off your heads and assimilate.”
She said: "We have to change the definition of what it means to support our young girls.
"Prince Harry mentioned this. He said it's important to have male voices at the table on this issue.
"Oftentimes it's going to be the brother or the father in a community speaking up that's going to change the way a community responds to the challenge of getting girls in school."
Lots of liberal dog whistles in this part of the article..
Seems like they're saying Muslim girls are being treated like chattel in Britain as well...
They need to get the fathers involved to convince them to send their daughters to school instead of leaving them as ignorant sex objects to marry off ?
If she had said what was REALLY on her mind it would have been: "Take those rags off your heads and become communist, like me and Barack."
when I look at an extra-wide horse’s ass, I see Michelle.
Shameless pandering
A black potatoe (alternate Quayle spelling) sack with two eye holes?
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I wish she would. The world would be a more beautiful place.
Mary Todd Lincoln was more SANE than Mooch!! She is NUTSO!!
That is NOT a photo-shopped picture......that is a REAL picture of our CLASSY First TRANSEXUAL!!
>>> So what “struggle” could she possibly be referring to?
Wookies have loooooong memories, comparable to elephants.
Some people looked at her cross-eyed when she was young, that’s the “slight” she was referring to growing up being black.
The Obamas whole “this reminds me of me” thing is so ridiculous it’s beginning to appear they do it just to get a rise out of us.
I try not to look into the toilet before flushing as I know I will see Moochie.
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