When I lived in Venezuela many years ago, Liberation Theology as a theory seemed to be scaling back even though priest-activists were still engaged in fighting for social justice for the poor.
Now we're hearing glimmers of something called Black Liberation Theology and that presidential candidate Barak Obama might be an adherent of this kind of thinking.
I have personally witnessed and become acquainted with people living in a poverty so shocking that we in the United States cannot comprehend it even when we do see it. I've seen it in Venezuela, Mexico, El Salvador, Nicuaraga, Costa Rica, the United States, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Laos, Cambodia, and most recently Kenya (see http://www.emberkenya.org/).
Jesus was a mystic who received God's message about loving one another. Social justice is a very big part of that loving whether we recognize the existence of God or not.
Now we're hearing glimmers of something called Black Liberation Theology and that presidential candidate Barak Obama might be an adherent of this kind of thinking.
I have personally witnessed and become acquainted with people living in a poverty so shocking that we in the United States cannot comprehend it even when we do see it. I've seen it in Venezuela, Mexico, El Salvador, Nicuaraga, Costa Rica, the United States, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Laos, Cambodia, and most recently Kenya (see http://www.emberkenya.org/).
Jesus was a mystic who received God's message about loving one another. Social justice is a very big part of that loving whether we recognize the existence of God or not.
3 comments:
Aren't Matthew Chapters 5-7, starting with the Beatitudes pretty much a handbook for Liberation Theology?
People of true faith do not want anyone to starve (spiritually or otherwise) and they don't deliberately treat people with prejudice or disdain. Different groups do have differing views of how to solve such problems. Not everyone thinks that the political state is the best vehicle for achieving equity and social justice.
Although it sometimes frustrates me that the same folks who don't want tax money used to promote social good often want the state to outlaw behaviors with which they disagree.
While I do agree with the ideas in this post I just wanted to comment on something that caught my eye:
Now we're hearing glimmers of something called Black Liberation Theology and that presidential candidate Barak Obama might be an adherent of this kind of thinking.
This rumor actually originates from the same Republican smear campaign that claims that Obama is a closet Muslim, a former madrassa student, and some kind of Manchurian candidate. How he can be concurrently a devout Muslim and a Christian Black Liberation Theologian confounds me, LOL.
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