Posted on 01/15/2020 6:50:27 PM PST by marshmallow
SÃO PAULO, Brazil - In a harsh exchange of tweets with Brazilian theologian Leonardo Boff on Jan. 1, Brazil’s foreign minister Ernesto Araújo accused Liberation Theology of being responsible for the decline in the number of Catholics in Brazil.
In a Happy New Year tweet, minister Araújo said that “in 2020 it’s necessary to keep working against the leftist mechanism” not only in Brazil, but also on the international front, criticizing what he called “a global and globalist project of power.”
Araújo is a minister for conservative President Jair Bolsonaro, who has often sparred with the country’s Catholic bishops over the environment and other social justice issues.
A follower of the ideas of the far-right philosopher Olavo de Carvalho, a Virginia-based Brazilian author who argues that there’s a Marxist international conspiracy behind multilateralism and the studies on climate change, Araújo has at times sparked controversy in the Brazilian media. In March, for instance, he claimed during an interview that Nazism “is a left-wing phenomenon.” In September, at a conference at The Heritage Foundation in Washington D.C., he denied climate change, saying it’s an “instrument of globalism.”
His tweet on Jan. 1 was answered by one of the founders of the Liberation Theology movement in Latin America, Leonardo Boff, who said that with Araújo, “intelligence has been debased” and that his interventions “lack any kind of serious base,” being the result of an “anti-human and anti-life prejudice.”
Boff, a former Franciscan priest, is still a well-known left-wing figure in Brazil, and frequent critic of the goverment.
Araújo answered Boff with an attack on Liberation Theology.
“When your Liberation Theology appeared, more than 90 percent of Brazilians were Catholic. Today they’re only 50 percent and [they keep] going down. Brazilians - especially the poor - rejected your theo-Marxism and ran to the........
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Lol. That sounds so SILLY, just like "Tweety Pie."
Thuffrin Thocatash!
That is because NAZIsm is a left wing phenomena. It is National Socialism vs. International Socialism.
Hitler always called himself a man of the left.
He was widely considered on the left by nearly everyone, until he attacked the Soviet Union.
Then the International Socialists claimed he was "on the right".
Of course, they claim anyone with views different from theirs are "on the right".
The idea that Hitler and the NAZIs were "on the right" is one of the big lies put over by the legacy media.
100% right.
Good summary of liberation theology:
‘The first, by Leonardo Boff: “What we propose is Marxism, historical materialism, in theology.”
The second, by the Peruvian Gustavo Gutierrez, founding father of the same ideology: “What we mean by liberation theology is participation in the revolutionary political process.”’
One Marxist nutjob fawning over another.
We need a revolution to liberate ourselves and Christianity from liberation “theology.”
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