The writer is intelligent and yet wrong. What he is proposing is the old “liberation theology” that many priests bought into in the Central American wars that involved communists.
He is a genuine Pro-Lifer, but he declares the “religious right” dead, which is premature. He advocates the same tired “social justice” calls that actually mean more government spending on social problems. He attempts to link this to being a good Christian.
It is relevant as there is some of this “theolgoy” being accepted by the Huckabee Evangelicals. To me it is a scarey movement but they are free to make that choice...but as my tagline states...don’t be confused with being a conservative. There is nothing conservative about it. More importantly, I think Christians are being led down a wrong road with thise “new” theology”. The wrong road is taking the focus off of the gospel and salvation and placing it on doing “good” by advocating huge government programs.
This is definately worth debating and I’d like to here both evangelical and Catholic viewpoints on it.
Who runs the Catholic ping list? lol
“He advocates the same tired “social justice” calls that actually mean more government spending on social problems. He attempts to link this to being a good Christian.”
as i often repeat
many catholic intellectuals have subsumed the charity and organized help for the less fortunate - that is a natural part of christianity - into democratic socialism
like all socialist they refuse to make any distinction between what is required of christians as free agents in a free society and the central government of that society, as if that central government - it’s identity - and the society at large are, and ought to be one in the same - i.e. socialism
the real excellence of america is not in what the central government does but in the people, operating freely, beyond the political control of the central government
dempcratic spcialists, catholic or ortherwise, simply seek to make their view of appropriate benevolence a political orthodox view enforced by government mandate
at it’s heart there is nothing christian about it
when his followers wanted to help the poor, can you imagine Yeshua telling his followers to start a movement to tell ceasar to turn his treasury over to them????? NO, NO, NO
he would send them out to feed the poor themselves, asking from anyone but TAKING FROM NO ONE, NO ONE
325 tears after his crucifixion the leaders of the remnant of his followers merged their authority with the secular authority of the world, adopting its power to command by the sword as well, and have ever sensed been unable to give up their penchant for secular power ever since