here we are. this is when esaid it would happen. i don t think the panner ins are a threat to society. the ideas they get the ideas from that lead to crazy ideas, those ideas being institutionalized, being institutionalized is where the trouble comes in. let s look at the bread crumbs. for 20 years, barack obama was part of jeremiah wright liberation theology church in chicago. in fact, obama himself said he found jesus through jeremiah right. i heard reverend wright deliver sermon audacity of hope. in the course of the sermon, he introduced me to someone named jesus christ. i learned that my sins could be redeemed. glenn: okay.
interpretations of marxism thought and theology happened in central and south america, right in the church. it was really the fantastic work of the current pope, who actually rooted out liberation theology from that region. that is something we talk about at the institute all the time. good source for that? glenn: ratinger said liberation theology movement, saw it sweeping across and he said, it is a fundamental threat to the faith of the church. fortunately, it didn t work, but it came close. church was strong enough to root them out. why did they use the church? they wanted control of the government. but the catholic church is so strong in latin america, they couldn t make any headway. they had to get in the church and pervert it. it s about social justice. they use that as vehicle to the church.
glenn: we were talking about salvation and obama s view of salvation. here is where it comes from. recognizing that my fate remain tied up with their fate. that my individual salvation is not going to come about without collective salvation for the country. it s because you have an obligation to yourself. because our individual salvation depends on collective salvation. this is not christianity. my salvation is not connected to your salvation. that is a grave, grave perversion. it s liberation theology. now ministers, i am in so much trouble tomorrow, because the power structure of the country is in the hands of people honestly of jim wallace. and they are going to pit me against all religions. you will see a smear campaign
so far? that is exactly right. one of the major problems with the theology it reduces christianity to being political theology. as you mentioned earlier, it s so much more than this. it actually involves my own sin and your own sin and our relationship god, but to reduce it to a political theology is completely inconsistent with the history of christianity. glenn: it loses the god part of it. anthony bradley, from king s college, author of liberating black theology. anthony, tell me this. this is black liberation theology. jesus demands that in his case jesus died on the cross as a victim. the empty tomb doesn t really have any meaning to it. jesus demands the jew in his case, or the white, the oppressor give up his position in life. his money, his goods to other victims in order to be saved. is that right? that s essentially right. you find theology that deals
white worker. they were going to be the oppressed. they were oppressed by the chinese in the 1800s, the black worker, this is where unions started look for the union label, but the union label said, made by white workers. so they used the white workers. that was their victim. they knew they have just held the white people they could gain power, use, infiltrate or corrupt the most powerful institution at your disposal. they used churches and the unions. think of anything else they used? they used politics. these were the people already in power. glenn, they also used the public education system. that was also a means of rearticulating the understanding of who the oppressor is and who the