Liberation Theology began as a movement within the Catholic Church in Latin America. Detractors have called it Christianized Marxism Marxism, propagated by Karl Marx (c. 1818-1883) was one of the most significant worldviews to impact Christianity for the worse. The concept of materialism is foundational to Marxism. The world consists in only matter, and the way human beings respond to material needs is all that matters. This is hopelessly atheistic, and philosophically impossible to set as a belief system that remains coherent. Unfortunately, many have followed Marx because of his materialistic viewpoints and the rise of Communism. Marx wrote his Communist Manifesto in 1848, and this pressed ”workers of the world to unite.” Only the material world exists and people have a hand in making the community in which they live better for the whole. Human beings, then, to raise themselves out of mundane despair, resort to the creation of religion. The Russian Revolution, just after World War I gave Marxism its hold on humanity the political structure of the day. It was strengthened by the military in the Soviet Union and the political destabilization that occurred. Latin American theology, as will be seen, draws from Marx’s ideas and is where Marx has done the most harm to Christian thought.
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 15:43:05 +0000
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