Twisting the cross
It might be interesting this Good Friday to examine "another Gospel," one of the many counterfeits floating around the shallow precincts of our theologically bankrupt "mainline" churches these days. It's the heresy that spawned the ravings of Barack Obama's former minister, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and offers- believe it or not- a rational explanation for how he got from Calvary to... well, where he got.
I'm talking about Liberation Theology, the strange distortion of the Christian Gospel and the very significance of Christ which arose in Latin America a few decades ago, gave birth to Feminist Theology (and a great many other abominations), and was all the rage at Wartburg Seminary back in the 'Eighties when I went there. It's still the bread and butter (ergot-infested though it be) of those who inhabit the bizarre never-never land of what passes for theology in the ELCA.
If you read the article linked to above, you will quickly grasp its essence: the post-modern "deconstruction" of Jesus Christ and His message, and its replacement with Marxist ideology. Following the twisted thinking of the Friedrich Nietzsche- John the Baptist of Post-Modernism (and National Socialism, by the way)- it evacuates the message of Jesus and the cross itself of its inherent content, and takes it over like a parasite, using it as a vehicle for an entirely alien ideology.
If there is no truth, after all, all there is is the will to power. That- and the passing off of hatred and outright Marxism as Christian theology.
I'm talking about Liberation Theology, the strange distortion of the Christian Gospel and the very significance of Christ which arose in Latin America a few decades ago, gave birth to Feminist Theology (and a great many other abominations), and was all the rage at Wartburg Seminary back in the 'Eighties when I went there. It's still the bread and butter (ergot-infested though it be) of those who inhabit the bizarre never-never land of what passes for theology in the ELCA.
If you read the article linked to above, you will quickly grasp its essence: the post-modern "deconstruction" of Jesus Christ and His message, and its replacement with Marxist ideology. Following the twisted thinking of the Friedrich Nietzsche- John the Baptist of Post-Modernism (and National Socialism, by the way)- it evacuates the message of Jesus and the cross itself of its inherent content, and takes it over like a parasite, using it as a vehicle for an entirely alien ideology.
If there is no truth, after all, all there is is the will to power. That- and the passing off of hatred and outright Marxism as Christian theology.
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