Soviets created liberation theology?

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Well, okay, “preferential option for the poor” in my mind is partially a shorthand for wealth redistribution a la Marxism.
As even wikipedia says “In its origins, the concept was connected with the liberation theology movement of the mid-20th century. As a developed theological principle, the option for the poor was first articulated by Fr. Gustavo Gutiérrez, O.P. in his landmark work, A Theology of Liberation (1971). Gutiérrez asserts that the principle is rooted in both the Old and New Testaments and claims that a preferential concern for the physical and spiritual welfare of the poor is an essential element of the Gospel.”


Funny how that only took theologians some-1900 years to notice that in the Gospel. : )
 
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Fair enough, I just took it to mean we’re supposed to help the poor and alleviate their suffering through charity.
 
And the experience of modern Venezuela has something to do with the influence of the KGB?
It seems to me that in Latin America sometimes utopian ideas appear in the spirit of Socialism and Marxism. The question was whether the KGB was a motivator and an impact, or still the desire of the people to fight against national exploitation and social injustice?
 
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Some still hope he was feeling remorse or experienced some scare or revelation from God but considering this article too it was most likely far less spiritual than this, Just part of the agenda.
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Exactly the kind of technique that would fool progressive Catholics and their excuse-making allies.
 
McCarthy was a self-serving con man who lied his way into a position of power over other people’s lives.

The idea that Communist infiltrators existed wasn’t wrong, but he literally lied about his supposed knowledge of them in various government agencies. If anyone is to blame for the fact that the idea of Communist infiltration stopped being taken seriously and became a joke about hunting Reds under the beds, it’s Joe McCarthy.
 
Yes, they did. Nikita Khrushchev was the guy who invented the very term.

He also organized a congress in 1968, in which this trojan horse was first presented.

Next step was a book written by Gustavo Gutierrez, who happened to be at this “congress”…
 
Most experts on Latin American religion believe the forces underlying both liberation theology and the expansion of Evangelical and Pentecostal Christianity were largely home-grown. Samuel Escobar, a Peru-based Protestant scholar on missionary work, calls claims that Latin America’s religious trends are a result of foreign influence a “conspiracy theory.”
 
Too many supposed “Catholics” are simply people trying to drape their Marxism with the trappings of Catholicism. A Marxism that’s been explicitly condemned by the Church.
 
As noted in John L. Allen reflections, the liberal Latin American bishops such as Samuel Ruiz García of Chiapas State in Mexico and Hélder Cámara of Olinda and Recife in Brazil didn’t have to be “maneuvered”. They were already on board with liberation theology before anyone in Moscow knew it was stirring.

That’s not to say the KGB didn’t do whatever it could to support leftist movements in Latin America critical of capitalism and the United States. It would be surprising if they hadn’t, given the zero/sum Cold War logic that anything that seemed to hurt one side benefited the other.
In that sense, Pacepa is likely correct about the KGB strategy, but may be giving the agency too much credit for its results.
 
If you want a classic example of a Latin American bishop who feels this way, by the way, it’s Pope Francis. As the cardinal of Buenos Aires, he was the lead author of the Latin American bishops’ 2007 “Aparecida Document,” in which the top note was the need to relight the Church’s missionary fires.

Francis, in other words, would be disinclined to look for an external plot behind the vicissitudes of the Church, and more willing to accept that, for better or worse, the principal responsibility lies within. (John L. Allen Jr. Did the KGB ‘create’ Latin America’s liberation theology?)
 
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Yes, they did. Nikita Khrushchev was the guy who invented the very term.
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That’s interesting. I hadn’t heard that until now. Do you have a source for that?
 
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PACEPA, Ion Mihai, RYCHLAK, Ronald J., Disinformation, Washington D.C., WND Book, Inc., 2013. Part II, Chapter 15.

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I see a possible difficulty there. Does Pacepa give his source for the information about Khrushchev, or is he asking his readers to take his word for it?
 
Wow. What a great, unitive way to talk about half of Catholics. I have no idea why the Church is so divided today.
 
You’ll have a hard time trying to question his credibility, if this is your intention.

I say this because he had been high in command before he came out and because he presented incredible amounts of evidence regarding many topics besides this one.

Just read the book, including the many footnotes about the liberation theology case. Also, read about him.
 
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