[lbo-talk] Marxism and Religion

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 2/27/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Feb 26, 2007, at 10:24 PM, Angelus Novus wrote:
>
> > But the weakness and marginality of the left can't
> > have anything to do with the lack of an emancipatory
> > affinity in the population at large, since churches
> > are able to tap into it.
>
> Who said churches are emancipatory? They tell you to believe
> improbable things, and are full of commandments, rituals, and
> prohibitions!

Why do you think, for instance, the Salvadoran Right killed Dorothy
Kazel, Jean Donovan, Maura Clarke, and Ita Ford?

Why did the Arroyo regime kill "Bishop Alberto Ramento of the
Philippine Independent Church, the Aglipayan priest William Tadena,
and Reverend Edison Lapuz of the United Church of Christ in the
Philippines" (E. San Juan, Jr., "U.S. Imperialism and Arroyo Regime in
the Philippines on Trial at the Permanent People's Tribunal, the
Hague,"
<http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/sanjuan180207.html>)?

What do you think people who are involved in EPICA, SOA Watch, Pastors
for Peace, and so on are doing?
-- 
Yoshie
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