Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: ejalbert@phoenix.princeton.edu (Edmund Jason Albert) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: A Dialogue with Rome: part I Message-ID: Date: 30 Nov 89 08:25:14 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Princeton University, NJ Lines: 20 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu Jesus said that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of heaven. He was a religious reformer who despised the established order which he felt victimized the unfortunate. He spent his time with lepers and prostitutes and tax collectors. And you believe that liberation theology, which states that Christianity is not just for the fortunate but for all, and is an appropriate vehicle for social protest against injustice, is not valid? The people of Central America have for centuries been stuggling aginst domination by an elite few, who, by the way, also receive (or is it take) communion regularly. In my opinion, these people are less true Christians that the Communists, who are at least fighting for the common people, even if you and I think them misguided. Fortunately, it is not for me to judge, but for God. However, I think liberation theology is not only a valid reading of the Scriptures, but an extremely accurate one. Jason Albert Princeton University