Sojourners: Christianity Wedded to Marxism

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[.cnI redruM]

It must take an intellectual genius to wed a religion to a political ideology that believes that "religion is the opiate of the masses."

Imagine having the gay couple of Marx and Engels as a pair of in-laws. Yeesh!

[Tribune7]

The three who traditionally get the credit for overthrowing communism are Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II.

Mrs. Thatcher was never outspoken about her Christianity, AFAIK. The other two OTOH . . .

Also, Billy Graham deserves a bit of credit too.

[NVD]

Don't forget about the Pope! This is how he will be remembered.

[sirchtruth]

In the aftermath of the November 2004 elections, a consensus among Democratic Party leaders was that their defeat could be attributed to their party’s disconnect from religious voters.

I hope the DIM party never figures out that it's not about "Religion", it's about what is Right and Wrong!

They will never understand, they're too selfish.

[Tribune7]

I mentioned the Pope :-)

[marktwain]

Interesting. Shows the deep contradictions, that their "faith" is more faith in communism than in Christianity.

They are anti-war only if America is waging the war. If communists are waging war, then everything is fine.

[NVD]

The Sojourners community uniformly welcomed the Communists’ victory in the revolution

Oxymoron? Christians who don't see their sinful natures, believing in an idology of Marxism? Wow! This Marxist philosophy goes against everything the Bible teaches....... believing that through man/ social policies/ governement, we can create a utopia on earth. Hasn't this philosophy failed miserably?

[Guillermo]

Yeah, Marxism is going to play well in Southern Baptist Surburbia ;)

Good job, Democrats!

[robowombat]

“For us,” Wallis wrote, “the modern state is the great power, the great seducer, the great captor and destroyer of human life, the great master of humanity and history in its totalitarian claims and designs.”

So Wallis & co embrace various forms of Leninism as an alternative. A classic example of leftist inability to see the plain truth that Marxist-leninist forms of the modern state produced the most deadly version of the totalitarian order and the most vicious form of state organization in human history.

[Fred Hayek]

The term "liberation theology" has got to be a product (the lefty term would be construct) of Gramscian Marxist corruption of the language. When using honest language, a true "liberation theology" would be referring to the liberation from sin and death by Christ's work on the cross. Then again, the lefty "liberation theology" has nothing to do with Jesus Christ.

[crazyhorse691]

In 1984 I spent 10 minutes talking with this bird. I finally had to remind him that the 60s were over and Che was dead. Glad to see he hasn't "aged" in the last 20 years. Pityful.

[NVD]

Great Point!

[TheGeezer]

You are absolutely correct about "liberation theology." It was the product of 1970s experimental theology. It is still out there, of course, and still just as erroneous.

I'm gratified that the dems are consulting with these heretical, experimental Christians. They still don't get it, and they are still on course to the junk heap of history.

[Unam Sanctam]

Interesting. I've seen this periodical on occasion and have wondered what it was all about.

[unlearner]

These people would have a problem with the apostles' doctrine. Peter said that the communal living practiced by some in the early church was optional. Paul said that if a person refuses to work he should also not eat. Of course we should not forget the elementary rule against stealing (which is an essential component of communism).

Scripture does not align at all with the politics of communism.

[Theo]

Your ministry's not affiated with this organization, is it?

[Theo]

Ah, the fruit of the Hegelian Dialectic....

[Just mythoughts]

"Scripture does not align at all with the politics of communism."


You are correct, however since the Garden party and according to Whitaker Chambers, communism/religion, began there with the offer of knowledge of 'good and evil' makes one as 'gods'. Look how many converts the devil has under communism.

Letter to My Children
by Whittaker Chambers
from the Foreward to Witness
(Random House,1952).

"........It is not new. It is, in fact, man's second oldest faith. Its promise was whispered in the first days of the Creation under the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil: "Ye shall be as gods." It is the great alternative faith of mankind. Like all great faiths, its force derives from a simple vision. Other ages have had great visions. They have always been different versions of the same vision: the vision of God and man's relationship to God. The Communist vision is the vision of Man without God. ......"

[TheGeezer]

If it is the Hegelian Dialectic, is it avoidable?