The Gaza issue is, very realistically, NOT a religious issue, but a colonization and conquest issue....which is in the Bible from many directions, and examples exist of the wrong side of that, and, of the prophetic condemnation of that, within those same Scriptures; ....1/
...of "Prophetic Imagination" that sees THROUGH that and recognizes the EVIL that is manifested in that. And there is a journey in that process of what we have in that collection. 2/
To take one's chosen "soapbox" and declare THAT as "what the Bible says" is a travesty that leads to appropriation of the worst sorts.
Liberation Theology is, itself, "Biblical" in it's origins. It is something that CAME OUT of reading it in a setting of oppression, 3/
Liberation Theology is, itself, "Biblical" in it's origins. It is something that CAME OUT of reading it in a setting of oppression, 3/
...and recognizing the rich threads of the Proclamation of a Liberating God. That is there, in solidarity with Palestinians, and in opposition to the State of Israel's government that is, and has been for decades, oppressing the people of Palestine. 4/
Ecological balance and Ecological Liberation is also there. And it is buried by those who want to Appropriate it on behalf of "The Takers"; the colonizers. The "Prophetic Imagination" that Old Testament Theologian Walter Brueggemann spent years imploring us to seek, 5/
... is wholly and consistently present throughout those Scriptures, belying efforts to Appropriate it for conquest. 6/
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