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Date Posted: Tue April 19, 2005 22:50:31
Author: DamnRam
Subject: And about the fabrication regarding Christ's sacrifice
In reply to: bfg 's message, "I agree that the Church is a very important vehicle for social change and Benedict XVI and JPII are on the same page. However, the Latin American liberation theologians explain LT in terms of violence and many of them, including Friar Boff, claimed that Christ's disciples fabricated the idea that Jesus' death had a transcendent, salvific significance. He and other LT'ers were silenced b/c they were engaging in heresy and there's no other way to look at it. This is against the most basic theology of the Church." on Tue April 19, 2005 21:40:41

As for the claim about fabrication, it is entirely possible that things happened exactly as was written, or that his flock chose to see in a horrible act more than what was actually there. Perhaps they did indeed creatively interpret the situation so that his message would survive him. Considering the Bible was written several centuries after the fact by several different authors nobody can really say with certainty whether that was or wasn't the case. I don't know of course, just raising it as a possibility.

LT was in the end about trying to rectify oppressive circumstances. Whether a person wants to discredit an otherwise legitimate movement to right those wrongs because of a theological argument as to whether Christ's death was "transcendental and salvific" seems to me like quibbling in the larger picture. There were horrible sins being committed during the Dirty War that had to be stopped, just as there are horrible sins happening in the world today. Comforting the suffering is nice, but preventing future such suffering by changing the forces that produces it is the greatest good. Isn't that what God's chosen/self-selected representatives on Earth are supposed to be doing?

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