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Elpidio

have a look at this thread:

The Liberation Theology.

Watch rod get chewed up and spat out. I can't help what Cardenal did, but he did what he did.

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-- rod (elreyrod@yahoo.com), March 18, 2004

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Cardenal was one of those Jesuits who played an important role in the execution of that Liberation Theology. What I find interesting is that Jesus did not equate His mission as a revolt, yet the Liberation Theology group found it necessary to get involved in revolution because it allowed for a way to establish Catholicism where Catholicism did not have a home.

(posted over there)

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-- rod (elreyrod@yahoo.com), March 18, 2004.

Check my response, Rod.

The Christian Yahwist

-- Elpidio Gonzalez (egonval@yahoo.com), March 18, 2004.

I have read about the idea that Jesus was a revolutionist. Josephus tends to make that implication, if we read it with squinted eyes. I just don't know for sure. Of course, if I entertain such a thought maybe I too would have had a few bullets hitting me in that forum.

But, did you notice how the subject steered away from Cardenal? Why can't people just face up to the truth instead of ignoring it?

I can't say that Cardenal was right or wrong. But, at the same time it seems as we condone the idea of the means justifying the end. At least, Catholicism--faith in Christ--was given to the souls, even if perhaps crammed down their throats.

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-- rod (elreyrod@yahoo.com), March 19, 2004.

So, what is the difference between the Liberation Theology and today's Missionary ministries in third world countries?

I suppose that initially the missionaries are not trying to establish some form of government. Then, while walking away, we take a second glance and see that in all reality that is exactly what the missionaries are doing. Missionary work is the spreading of the Gospels, even in places where the government forbids it. Much like Cardenal, the mission inevitably liberates the people and gradually destroys that oppresive government over time and attrition. I'm thinking that Cardenal and the LT groups probably had the same motives in mind.

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-- rod (elreyrod@yahoo.com), March 19, 2004.

We sometimes have to embrace those ugly beings, then when the time is right that embrace becomes a choke hold.

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-- rod (elreyrod@yahoo.com), March 19, 2004.