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Jesus Wouldn't Bomb a Soul:

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Jason Miller
In the terrifying and unlikely event that your indoctrination fails and you find yourself suddenly afflicted with the profound feeling of existential emptiness that accompanies the realization that our hedonistic, acquisitive, narcissistic, shallow, mean-spirited, and bellicose American Way is spiritually bankrupt, remember that the Liberation Theologians showed us that there are other ways of being.


Oh, to Hell with it!

Just turn on the TV. Luxuriate in the fantasy that you could become as affluent and privileged as “The Donald.” That’s much more gratifying than attempting to emulate those hopelessly idealistic wannabe saints!

[Note of Disclosure: In his relatively nascent but profound divorce from the rabid centrism posing as “liberalism” infecting many US Americans, this author unwittingly advocated and embraced notions akin to Liberation Theology prior to discovering the existence of this incredible movement. Despite abandoning his Christian faith in favor of a personal spirituality forged in the crucible of personal struggle, the two pieces linked below reveal the striking similarities between his personal principles and those of Liberation Theology: 

 http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/4369/1/50/ 

 http://www.axisoflogic.com/cgi-bin/exec/view.pl?archive=145&num=22526

In short, the author is heavily biased in favor of many aspects of Liberation Theology.]

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Jason Miller, Senior Editor and Founder of TPC, is a tenacious forty something vegan straight edge activist who lives in Kansas and who has a boundless passion for animal liberation and anti-capitalism. Addicted to reading and learning, he is mostly (more...)
 
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