Video link -> https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2106915463963754498/vid/avc1/1920x1080/eFh6OyJcoTJ9EpmN.mp4
Source -> https://shitter.thepixora.com/TranslateMom/status/2106915576094351721#m
As context:
Between the 1960s and 1980s, under the pretext of “fighting communism,” the CIA infiltrated Christian movements throughout Africa and the Global South with the mission of steering Christian doctrines away from so-called “liberation theology” (teachings that encouraged people to stand up to corrupt governments and take collective action to improve their lives), because this doctrine was allegedly “communist.”
It funded and facilitated the explosive growth of a completely new form of Christianity, now known as the “prosperity gospel,” and invested millions of dollars to promote it throughout the Global South as part of its Cold War efforts. This new doctrine disregarded any form of collectivism and encouraged people to view their Christian faith and salvation as individualistic matters that could be measured by specific individual outcomes, such as economic “blessings.”
It was the perfect capitalist Trojan horse, because it convinced people to stop thinking of progress as a shared national endeavor and instead view it as an individual responsibility—which meant they didn’t need to organize into pressure groups, political movements, labor unions, student unions, or any other collectivist entity that the U.S. government considered “leftist” or “communist.” It was a resounding success and turned the world’s poorest people—in sub-Saharan Africa—into rabid, money-obsessed capitalists, albeit without capital.
And in case you’re wondering if this means that all the megapastors in Lagos and Abuja are agents of the U.S. government, the answer is simple: do a one-minute Google search and find out where they all earned their degrees in theology or received their training as pastors. There’s your answer.
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Yup and enough of them saw material reward to back that ideology up. Take away that material and that ideological leverage then goes away with it. But that would require effective authority against it and the limitations of such freedoms (good!). If liberation theology is the way forward then it needs to develop the lines to counter the above (eg shia islam was able to do it to some extent in Iran and Yemen) - it cannot be passive in the face of imperialism and equivocate because of the secular lines it sees in the USSR/PRC etc