Pfleger, Wright, Obama, Benedict XVI

Pfleger, Wright, Obama, Benedict XVI
cinops be gone Sunday, September 28, 2008
You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to understand the religion of Michael Pfleger and Jeremiah Wright and their influence on Barack Obama. It is a tragedy for Obama to have come in contact with these two and their religion of radical Black Liberation Theology. This theology joins together Karl Marx and Jesus Christ with an advantage to Marx to bring about social justice. It’s all about envy, class struggle, take from the rich, and give to the poor. There is no foundation of this European hogwash in Christianity or in the writings of our Founding Fathers.

The editors and journalists of America have betrayed their profession by not reporting on this religion. One thing for sure, it is not traditional Christianity.
And now for a breadth of fresh air from the September 27th entry of Meditations of Every Day of the Year, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger’s book, “Co-Workers of the Truth” Ignatius Press, San Francisco, 1992. p. 308-9

“Ninety years have elapsed since Pope Leo XIII issued the encyclical “Rerum Novarum”, which has since become the “Magna Carta of Christian Social Work”, as Pius XI called it. This encyclical provides a Christian answer to the social question of the Marxist interpretation of mankind and society.
The struggle of the oppressed against their oppressors is for Marxism the whole content of history and the way of liberation, to the paradise of classless world.

As a Christian, the Pope bases his argument on a radically different concept: “Precisely the opposite is true”, he replied to the idea of saving the world by means of a class struggle.
“On the contrary, the Creator ordered all things toward peace and mutual harmony…. Capital is oriented to work and work to capital.” To the atheistic concept of a struggle, the Pope proposed solidarity as the Christian standard.

Solidarity – that includes justice as its central demand. We are solidaristic only when we give to others what is rightfully theirs by reason of their creatureliness, their humanity. For us, therefore, the foundation of all economic and social relationships is not confrontation but charity and cooperation.

Confrontation is destruction. Violence solves no problems. Pope Leo says in this regard: “Constant struggle breeds barbarism and confusion. Today we can see the truth of this statement demonstrated all over the world.”
Constant conflict barbarizes humanity, barbarizes the world. It destroys men interiorly, and this interior destruction leads, with incontestable logic, to exterior destruction. It follows, then, that the great social achievements, the gradual construction of a system of social justice, do not owe their existence to the program of Karl Marx, whose disciples wanted, not reform, but a progressive deterioration that would pave the way for their paradise.

What are we to conclude from all this? To the concept of a class struggle and its inhumane utopias we are to propose the fundamental principles of solidarity and justice.

The decision of what is to be right and wrong is not be made lightly. Respect for what is right is the basis of every human activity. Without it, there is, in the long run, no respect for humanity itself and no preservation of human dignity.
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate, and e-mail to Churches, organizations and persons.