[lbo-talk] Deer Hunting With Jesus

Marvin Gandall marvgandall at videotron.ca
Sat Nov 17 18:51:06 PST 2007


Chris D. writes:


>
> It's interesting that, in the period of great turmoil
> before 1917, the Russian Orthodox clergy showed this
> division. The Church at the village level was so
> leftist that the Church hierarchy felt compelled to
> purge it periodically. There was a lot of material
> being written and preached at the village level about
> the People of Christ being oppressed by the Tsar,
> about how the message of Christ meant being liberated
> from the wealthy and powerful, and so forth. This is
> the reason that the 1905 pogroms targeted seminarians.
> And the closet Marxist seminary Stalin attended was
> more the rule than the exception.
================================ And, of course, the most recent historical example is liberation theology in Latin America, also bitterly resisted by the Roman Catholic church hierarchy.



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