Posted on 09/30/2015 7:40:57 PM PDT by lbryce
Russia in Syria: Air Strikes on Homs are 'Holy War Against Terrorism' says Russian Orthodox Church
See post #5.
How much does Russia pay to the UN ?
That’s how it works over there.
One monster balances out the other monsters.
The disastrous “Arab Spring” policy lost sight of that.
Ask our Putinistas. They might know.
Obama is not a Russian plant. If anything, he’s an al Qaeda plant. If I were to be a conspiracy theorist, I would say that a dying Osama was a gift with strings attached.
“The Russian Orthodox Church wants to take Jerusalem.”
Indeed.
Obama is an atheist, a communist. He's been surrounded since birth by people who were loyal to the Soviet Union. His childhood mentor, "Uncle Frank" (Frank Marshall Davis), was a member of the then Moscow-controlled Communist Party USA. He himself sided with the Soviets as a radical in college. As president, he has bent over backwards making Russia and the ChiComs stronger (with his missile defense and nuke deals), while slashing our own defenses.
Sometimes it is the domestic enemies that do more damage than the foreign enemies.
All liberals are Marxists. He is not unique for that. He is not in line with the current country, Russia. You talk as if that were his only evil influence in his childhood and beyond. He had a whole lot of other garbage going in, up to and including his college pothead days and his 20 year membership in the Rev. Wright “church.” The man’s brain has been a junkyard dumping ground for bad ideology his entire life.
Some of your claimed outcomes are simply not true.
We have no chance of agreeing on this subject.
He needs them to exist in order to justify his expansionist actions in the Middle East.
Are you actually saying you don't know, after 7 years now, what Wright's so-called 'church' was about? Do you seriously not know by now what Liberation Theology is? That it's a communist-concocted religious movement very likely created by the KGB.
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 Obamas pastor in a heated interview about his Churchs 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.
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 Gutierrezs 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 Orthodoxys 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 Americaand the Vaticans struggles with itand 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, doesnt establish its truth or falsity. Still, its interesting to learn that liberation theology may have been, at least in part, a project of the KGB.
Unfortunately, this isnt just history. Chapman concludes ominously:
"the Theology of Liberation doctrine is one of the most enduring and powerful to emerge from the KGBs 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 Bermúdez
Posted on 5/16/2015, 11:56:24 AM by observationdeck
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 naïve can disregard the mountain of evidence connecting liberation theology with Soviet action in the region.
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicnewsagency.com ...
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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_theology
It has Marxist leanings as does most liberal thought. That does not mean it originated with the KGB. Perhaps they saw opportunity or commonality in it. Regardless, the KGB no longer exists. Marxist ideology is unfortunately alive and well in the political left. It is a logical fallacy to conclude that because Obama is a leftist, he is pro-Russia today.
The modern equivalent of the KGB is the FSB.
It is not a certainty that Russia is forever finished with communism. Because if they truly now detest it, as Putin claims in his 'warnings' to us about it, they wouldn't be propping up and/or allying with all the communist regimes they do today: ChiComs, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, other Latin American Marxist dictatorships.
Perhaps they would prefer to form alliances with and trade with us, but we have pushed them away. Is it your suggestion that they should just sit in their country (while enemy armies line their borders) and trade with no one? Even we trade with a lot of loser countries. It is sometimes just about the money and not about agreeing with their political systems.
I am not saying Russia is awesome. I am just saying they are not the Soviet Union. And under Obama, we are a long way from awesome ourselves.
Did Communism Fake Its Own Death in 1991?
American Thinker ^ | January 16, 2010 | Jason McNew
In a [] 1984 book [New Lies for Old], ex-KGB Major Anatoliy Golitsyn predicted the liberalization of the Soviet Bloc and claimed that it would be a strategic deception. ..."
"Golitsyn's argument was that beginning in about 1960, the Soviet Union embarked on a strategy of massive long-range strategic deception which would span several decades and result in the destruction of Western capitalism and the erection of a communist world government."
"Golitsyn published his second book, The Perestroika Deception, after the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991. This book contained further analysis of the liberalization, in addition to previously classified memoranda submitted by Golitsyn to the CIA. The two books must be read together to get a complete picture of Golitsyn's thesis."
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/01/did_communism_fake_its_own_dea.html
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Link to read "New Lies for Old" online:
https://archive.org/details/GolitsynAnatoleTheNewLiesForOldOnes
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Link to read "The Perestroika Deception" online:
https://archive.org/details/pdfy-TVvzZzfXiMBkMdvD
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