[lbo-talk] Re: the gibson jesus

[C. G. Estabrook]

I hold no brief for American rightist Christianity (a fairly recent
phenomenon -- up through the First World War, even evangelicals were
social progressives). But, given the retreat of M-L groups, the most
extensive explicitly anti-capitalist discourse in the global South remains
Liberation Theology (originally a Catholic movement in Latin America, but
now pan-Christian).  --CGE

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Carl Remick wrote:


> 
> Spare me the Frank Capra-style sentimentality about numinous lefties
> you've known, jks, and wake up and smell the Middle Ages!  Who cares
> what effete Unitarians or Quakers think about anything -- they're
> yesterday's Good News, so to speak.  The ascendant New Age
> Christianity is quite a different beast -- deeply antirational,
> nationalistic, pro-military, all manner of evil things.
> 
> I think the US, in particular, will never have decent social services
> -- and, more distantly, that there will never be any prospect of
> socialism here -- so long as so many continue to look skywards for
> guidance and solutions to social injustices and other real problems of
> life.
>