1/2 On the right wing evangelicalism of Bolonsaro of Brazil: “The fact that that movement (liberation theology) was killed ... has led indirectly to the rise of the most dangerous man on earth.” This is a brilliant and accurate short video analysis by @GeorgeMonbiot.
Mairi McFadyen @MJMcFadyen
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Liberation Theology vs Evangelism & the dangers of apocalyptic thought ⁦@GeorgeMonbiot⁩ piped.video/yVnDJZorYPA
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2/2 This morning, I was looking at Bolonsaro’s religious background - some pointers below on his Wikipedia page. And George mentions the #LiberationTheology of Don Helder Camara. His book, “Spiral of Violence”, is nearly 50 years out of print but PDF here: bit.ly/Camara-Spiral-Violenc…
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FYI, two books on Dom Helder Camara @OrbisBooks
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Wonderful, Robert. Does either of them contain full text of Spiral of Violence? If not, is that something Orbis could consider? It still reads so fresh. I scanned it out of frustration at its unavailability but await dread consequences. Meanwhile, this arrived from your stable.
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Replying to @alastairmci @OrbisBooks
Not that full text, but plenty more. Dom Helder was a mystic and prophet, a modern St Francis, who heard the cry of the poor and the cry of the earth.

Aug 24, 2019 · 2:00 PM UTC

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Replying to @RobertEllsberg @OrbisBooks
I see a review here ncronline.org/blogs/road-pea…. And here’s a passage on his essence. I remember being amused to read in some conservative Catholic publication an insistence that he was not a priest of liberation theology. I thought, “that’s it, he’s a saint of liberation theology.”
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