Re: [Marxism] thoughts of rejoicing on Easter Sunday

[Jim Farmelant <farmelantj@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 21:10:47 -0700 Gary MacLennan
<gary.maclennan1@xxxxxxxxx> writes:


> 
> So the right wing won and a good man was driven out. Still this is 
> the kind
> of victory that dooms the Church of Rome.  Those who triumphed can 
> now hold
> on to their atavistic beliefs in the Virgin Birth, the divinity of 
> Christ,
> the existence of a place called Heaven etc.  While they hug all 
> that
> nonsense to their bosoms the world is trapped between the scissors 
> of
> ecological and financial crises. Meanwhile the Church of Rome is 
> battling to
> preserve a core of ideas which are, to put it gently,  simply not 
> relevant
> to humanity. 

Concerning Ratzinger.  Back in the 1960s as a young theologian,
he was known as a liberal. He served as an advisor to the
Vatican II Council.  Indeed, he was an associated with, and to
was to some extent a protege of the liberal theologian Hans Kung. 
Obviously,
the two men went into quite different directions over the years since
then.  In the case of Ratzinger, the pivotal moment seems to have
been the outbreaks of student unrest in Germany in 1968, while
he was professor of theology at Tubingen.  The unrest was felt
even within the theological school at his university, which deeply
frightened and shocked him.  After that he would become more
and more conservative.
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