From previous blogs, I have several Peircean categorical tools for imaging commentaries on \u201csin\u201d, including the intersecting nested forms.\u00a0 This tool may be integral to a postmodern definition of \u201creligion\u201d.<\/p>\n
In 1962, Schoonenberg had none of these tools.\u00a0 As a Dutch Jesuit theologian, he had the tools of scholasticism and modernism, the same tools that had failed the Liberation Theologians of Latin America. \u00a0He was like a chemist trying to synthesize a novel molecule. Chemistry and Theology have something in common.\u00a0 Both can be flammable.<\/p>\n
Liberation Theologians distilled their life experiences, their society, and the Bible into concepts, such as \u201ca preferential option for the poor\u201d and \u201csocial sin\u201d, that unwittingly fueled the ambitions of leftist tyrants throughout Central and South America as well as leftist Progressives in North America.<\/p>\n
South of the border, \u201cthe preferential option for the poor\u201d became \u201ca preference for the tyrants who claim that the poor are victims of the rich\u201d. \u00a0You have heard the slogans: It is not your fault that you are poor.\u00a0 Even the wealthy imagined that they were victims of the (even more) rich.<\/p>\n
North of the border, the concept of \u201cthe sins of the world\u201d transformed into \u201cthe political incorrectness of the world\u201d. \u00a0You have heard the slogans: Who is more politically incorrect than the racist, woman-suppressing, homosexual-damning, money-grubbing, Catholics?\u00a0 OK.\u00a0 The Baptists.\u00a0 They must be re-educated.\u00a0 Let them be baptized by immersion in the fiery solvents of Progressivism.<\/p>\n
By 2012, the crass, defiant, entrepreneur-hating, crony capitalist tyrants of South America and the hygienic, high-minded, sharp-tongued, self-anointed Progressives of North America had rebranded the elixir of Liberation Theology and made it their own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From previous blogs, I have several Peircean categorical tools for imaging commentaries on \u201csin\u201d, including the intersecting nested forms.\u00a0 This tool may be integral to a postmodern definition of \u201creligion\u201d. In 1962, Schoonenberg had none of these tools.\u00a0 As a Dutch Jesuit theologian, he had the tools of scholasticism and modernism, the same tools that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unveiling-words"],"yoast_head":"\n