Listening to a talk by Francisco Flores* at the Acton Institute about El Salvador, I was struck by the parallels between Liberation Theology and the Neoconnized Religious Right. I would ask my pro-war fellow Christians to answer this question: What exactly was wrong with the teaching of the Liberation theologians that saw the Bible as a recipe for armed revolt? And how is it different than what is now being taught by so many Evangelical leaders? In both cases there is real tyranny, real injustice to which the pro-violent are responding. In both cases, Jesus is being conscripted into the … Continue reading “The Pulpit Had Become One More Source of Violence”