Into the House of Bondage

IN AN ARTICLE published during the Nicaraguan election campaign, the Sandinista newspaper Barricada tried to rationalize the government’s failure to transmit to the opposition funds appropriated by the United States Congress. It was not the government’s fault, the reporter observed, but the “traditional Jew-style with which the U.S. Congress manages the taxes of the taxpayers.” The following day, the publication formally dis-sociated itself from the sentiments expressed therein. (Ortega and company have become quite pr-conscious of late.) Still, the piece was an uncensored reflection of the anti-Semitism inherent in Third World Marxism.

Thus it may come as a surprise that liberation theology—the movement’s sales pitch to the spiritually inclined—has its Jewish as well as its Christian adherents. Then again, why should Christians be the only ones to get in on a good heresy, or embrace an ideology which ultimately seeks the extinction of their faith?

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IN AN ARTICLE published during the Nicaraguan election campaign, the Sandinista newspaper Barricada tried to rationalize the government’s failure to transmit to the opposition funds appropriated by the United States Congress. It was not the government’s fault, the reporter observed, but the “traditional Jew-style with which the U.S. Congress manages the taxes of the taxpayers.” The following day, the publication formally dis-sociated itself from the sentiments expressed therein. (Ortega and company have become quite pr-conscious of late.) Still, the piece was an uncensored reflection of the anti-Semitism inherent in Third World Marxism.

Thus it may come as a surprise that liberation theology—the movement’s sales pitch to the spiritually inclined—has its Jewish as well as its Christian adherents. Then again, why should Christians be the only ones to get in on a good heresy, or embrace an ideology which ultimately seeks the extinction of their faith?