Interesting and thank you for sharing. The problem is that the infestation is huge. How to remove it?
That is indeed a hard question.
If Catholics refused these “new” doctrines and clung to their original faith rather than “social justice” memes, and if Protestants resisted the influx of liberalism, and, indeed, if our Jewish friends clung to the Torah instead of leftist causes (thinking they can “heal the world”), then “Liberation Theology” would have no fertile ground. It would be like a seed cast onto the rocky soil, and would not take root.
There is a pernicious force at work that starts as a form of false guilt that afflicts most sincere adherents to the Judeo-Christian ethic. We Believers see injustice and poverty, and our inner desire to heal and correct these injustices make us easy prey to the enemy, who uses our good intentions to manipulate us to the left.
But neither the Torah nor the Gospels dictate that the STATE has the authority to take from one citizen and give to another.
Charity is the responsibility of the individual, who is moved by God’s Spirit to help those in need. Even the Biblical order to leave something in the fields for the poor requires that the poor GO to the fields and GLEAN it.
When left to itself, the Judeo-Christian ethic produces hospitals, old-age homes, burial societies, orphanages, homeless shelters, and soup kitchens. People give to these endeavors as the Spirit moves them.
The left can’t stand that the “Bible Religions” take care of the poor and the sick without the interference of government...so..they worked to change the RELIGION.
Just my humble opinion, based on a half-century of observation.
Oh...and I meant to add:
Marx said that “Religion is the opiate of the people” meaning, I presume that he thought religion was an intoxicant that rendered people useless and easy prey for the oppressors.
However, opiates are extremely useful and wonderful when used in medicine to ease unbearable pain, to comfort those afflicted, and to offer relief from suffering.
In that context, “Religion as an opiate” is doing what it is meant to do, and is a good thing.