Spiritualism is not a religion and certainly not Christianity. Some Satanists claim they are Spiritual. I have yet to meet a "Liberation Theology" proponent who is a serious Christian. There were whole Catholic Churches that were proponents in Central and South America. They acted in direct defiance of the leadership of that Church. In the 1980's they gave support to the Sandanistas in Nicaragua which allowed Daniel Ortega and his brother Humberto to come to power there, in return for establishing CEBs where the Church controlled every part of the community. I was told if you asked where the Catholic Church was in much of Nicaragua at the time the reply you would receive is: "only the communists go to the Catholic Church"
Nice try, but no cigar.
Because Black Liberation Theology has “Liberation Theology” in the name does not mean that it is derivative of that any more than my name “Roger-SD” means that I am a relative of “Roger Hedgecock,” who lives in San Diego. That is just very simplistic reasoning.
If people aren’t going to take the time to research what it is, they really should not be muddying the waters with their opinions. That is just a waste of your and others time.
Black Liberation Theology is a branch of the racist black theology of black nationalism, which includes the Nation of Islam and a number of other black sects, such as the Nuwaubians, Nation of Gods and Earths, etc. It mainly traces it’s roots back to the Marcus Garvey movement, HQ’d in New York city and not to Peru. That’s kind of ludicrous.
Liberation Theology really didn’t get started until the 1970’s also, in South America. BLT was canonized in the 1960’s right here in the USA.
One of the pillars of Obama’s home church, Trinity United Church of Christ, is “economic parity.” On the website, Trinity claims that God is not pleased with “America’s economic mal-distribution.” Among all of controversial comments by Jeremiah Wright, the idea of massive wealth redistribution is the most alarming. The code language “economic parity” and references to “mal-distribution” is nothing more than channeling the twisted economic views of Karl Marx. Black Liberation theologians have explicitly stated a preference for Marxism as an ethical framework for the black church because Marxist thought is predicated on a system of oppressor class (whites) versus victim class (blacks).
Black Liberation theologians James Cone and Cornel West have worked diligently to embed Marxist thought into the black church since the 1970s. For Cone, Marxism best addressed remedies to the condition of blacks as victims of white oppression. In For My People, Cone explains that “the Christian faith does not possess in its nature the means for analyzing the structure of capitalism. Marxism as a tool of social analysis can disclose the gap between appearance and reality, and thereby help Christians to see how things really are.”
In God of the Oppressed, Cone said that Marx’s chief contribution is “his disclosure of the ideological character of bourgeois thought, indicating the connections between the ‘ruling material force of society’ and the ‘ruling intellectual’ force.” Marx’s thought is useful and attractive to Cone because it allows black theologians to critique racism in America on the basis of power and revolution.
http://www.acton.org/pub/commentary/2008/04/02/marxist-roots-black-liberation-theology