roachboy:
Thanks for the post. What about Che? Perhaps I've been thinking too much about the Motorcycle Diaries...
Incidentally, since my last post here, I've been reading some of those same pages on Romero and liberation theology. Going back to when I was first exposed to it in college, I think it began some of the unraveling of my faith and hope in American evangelicalism. Liberation theology made perfect sense to my understanding of the Bible and Jesus... but the American church did not fit in at all (except the Mennonites, perhaps). I could not see how anyone could profess to follow Jesus and while maintaining a trajectory of wealth. There is NO ROOM in the gospels for being wealthy, or even middle-class. Christianity is about the poor... no ifs, ands, or buts about it.
If Christ was going to be part of politics in any way, he would have sided with the poor/oppressed/marginalized, no matter what the party was called. I have never understood how the Church could be stand by anything OTHER than liberation theology, if it was worth its salt. Christ would vomit all over evangelical America and its politics and money right now, as well as the actions of most of the Church throughout history, if you ask me.
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