Posted on 10/17/2012 1:20:38 PM PDT by Alex Murphy
He was/is (to my knowledge, somebody correct me if I'm wrong) -- not on Team Obama, and definitely not a Marxist.
He has his own set of biases, but those biases are more Menno Simons than Marx.
But Sider is to be distinguished from Jim Wallis and Sojourners. They have their similarities, but are not equivalent.
As I mentioned before, Sider has always been anti-abortion and pro-marriege as instituted by Divine and Natural Law, making him a vast nuymber of enemies on the Left. That, in itself, helped make him open to more conservative voices about economics, defense and the rest. He changed over the past 30 years -- toward more conservative views.
I give Sider credit for the elements of integrity which make him quite different from Wallis.
You may very well be right. You certainly have more background on this. My experience with others on the “liberation theology” side and leftists parading as Jesuits, makes me very wary of any Christian that confuses “social justice” with charity. Obama is on record as saying there is no salvation other than collective salvation. Heaven will indeed be a classless society but certainly not what the Marxists had in mind. And we will meet our Creator one by one, not in a community organized protest.
Amen.
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