"We'll liberate the parishes for enterprise development and job creation. And we'll tell people that if they don't buy our organic health soap it will be 10 more years in purgatory for them. That's what the priests should be saying. They're good for more than praying the rosary. They can be very good sales agents who use the social networks they have."At least he must be half joking? Right?
I mean, I'm all for teaching poor people how to use technology to buy and sell stuff. Give a man a fish, and you feed him for one day. Teach him to fish, and you give him dignity as well as food for the rest of his life.
I'm all for teaching them to use what they have on hand, rather than teach them to worry about what they don't have.
But some of the rest of this guy's plan, uhm, well, you tell me. He seems quite proud of his brand of liberation theology, and even calls it that. On the other hand, it's a liberation theology that embraces globalization. I guess that's progress...
hat tip: a voice from eden's "Interesting bits on the side" section in the sidebar. (An interesting concept, that...)
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