{"id":12679,"date":"2008-07-01T07:44:56","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T13:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=12679"},"modified":"2008-07-01T07:44:56","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T13:44:56","slug":"the-presidents-liberation-theology-karl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=12679","title":{"rendered":"Hugo Ch\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00a1vez may have an opening for Rev. Wright [Karl]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuelan\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0president\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/miami_dade\/story\/587067.html\">Hugo\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0Ch\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00a1vez<\/a>\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0is allegedly funding his own church with that CITGO money.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0The\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0newly-forming Reform Catholic Venezuelan Church puts its emphasis on <em>reform<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For example, reformists consider that &#8221;homosexuality and bisexuality are not sins in and of themselves.&#8221; Divorce is allowed and priests do not take vows of chastity.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;We completely support the socialist project led by Ch\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00a1vez,&#8221; said Enrique Albornoz, one of the new church&#8217;s first bishops &#8212; a group that is to be ordained on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>A former Roman Catholic priest, Jon Jen Siu Garcia, was elected coadjutor, and noted to the Venezuelan press that his mission is to &#8220;liberate people from capitalist values.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;We are learning to see the lower classes like Hugo Ch\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00a1vez, who has cared to attend to their necessities,&#8221; said Leonardo Marin Saavedra, bishop of the Anglican Latin American Church. A resident of Canada, he was invited to Venezuela especially to attend the upcoming ceremonies. &#8220;We are struggling against exploitation and the empire of the United States.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey, where does Andrew Sullivan sign up?\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Oh sure, the socialism should make Sully twinge in theory, but he&#8217;s a full-throated backer of Barack Obama, who\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0spent 20 years in a church based on <a href=\"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=11455\">Black Liberation Theology<\/a>.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Theoleftists seem not to bother him in the slightest, and he&#8217;s already protesting against the <a href=\"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=12644\">American non-empire<\/a>.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a slippery slope, so why not get out your boogie board?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuelan\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0president\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0Hugo\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0Ch\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00a1vez\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0is allegedly funding his own church with that CITGO money.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0The\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0newly-forming Reform Catholic Venezuelan Church puts its emphasis on reform: For example, reformists consider that &#8221;homosexuality and bisexuality are not sins in and of themselves.&#8221; Divorce is allowed and priests do not take vows of chastity. *** &#8221;We completely support the socialist project led by Ch\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00a1vez,&#8221; said Enrique Albornoz, one of the new church&#8217;s first bishops &#8212; a group that is<\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"btnmore\" href=\"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=12679\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":636,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}