sam naona wewe bado mwanangezi katika theologia thats why unachanganya mambo. kumbuka katika mfano wangu wa awali i mentionioned IRAN. mapinduzi ya iran yaliongozwa na Ayatollah Khomeini kupinga udhalimu na ufisadi uliokuwa unafaywa na shah. Khomeini hakuwa mkristo but had a theological conviction to be a force for good change!
Todate Iran is still a 'Theocracy'.Soma nini kilitokea Iran 1953 kujua chimbuko la mapinduzi ya 1979.
Pili nataka uelewe kwamba Pfofessor Ratzinger is consideredd to be one of the foremost theologians in the world. At the doctoral level, his students included many from the protestant churches and even outside christianity! Ratz is actually on record to have opposed some elements of liberation theology during Vatican II (a.k.a. Mtaguso wa pili wa vatican) because they endorsed armed struggle.
Wewe naona you are used to shooting from the hip, na una hulka ya upayukaji. you make 'wild allegations'. mifano yote niliyokupa haina mgogoro because it has happened already and recorded as fact!. naweza nikawa nimetumia mifano mingi ya kanisa katoliki because it can safely be said that 'the copyright to liberation theology belongs to the catholic church'. a casual glance at the history of latin american history from 1960-2000 will clearly show the pivotal role that religion played to bring down dictatorships all the way from argentina to mexico. Now here is something different:
Walikuwa ni viongozi wa dini nchini afhghanistan waliohamasisha wananchi (Mujahedeen)kupambana na Warusi (soviet union then) na vibaraka wao nchini afghanistan. Of couse baada ya soviet union kusambaratika na kuondoa majeshi yake afghanistan, Mujahedeen waliachwa solemba...matokeo yake tunayaona leo ikiwemo al qaeda! Ukombozi wa Pakistani ya sasa, na Bangladeshi ya sasa (ambayo enzi hizo ikiitwa East Pakistan), usingewezekana bila ya viongozi wa kiislamu kusimama kidete kudai haki zao. Today, the 'Muslim Brotherhood' in various countries may be radical but the bottomline is that they stand for justice of the oppressed.
issue inayozungumziwa hapa ni 'the role of religion in politics/governance of a country' and definately not personal beliefs. nimekupa mifano ya nchi ambazo kanisa lilisimama kidete kutetea haki za wanyonge. nikakutajia na Iran pia where the islamic revolution was not about religion at all but social justice.
Hapa jirani yetu uganda tunamkumbuka Askofu Mkuu Janani Luwum ambaye alithubutu kupinga waziwazi utawala wa Idi Amin akiwa ndani ya nchi. He was bruttally murdered. People like bishop Festo Kivengere (He later wrote a book 'I Love Idi Amin', while in exile..huyu mzee ilibidi akimbie nchi kwa kukatiza mapori, otherwise yaliyomkuta Luwum yangemkuta na yeye pia!
Hapo Kenya alikuwepo Bishop Alexander Muge. The guy was authentic! alikemea rushwa na ufisadi ndani ya serikali ya Nyayo...matokeo yake yakampata masahibu kama yale yaliyomkumba mzee Robert Ouko. There is a book written by Nicholas Otieno "
Beyond the Silence of Death: Life and Theology of the Late Bishop Alexander Kipsang Muge". Huyu hakuwa mkatoliki....
Afrika ya kusini ( Bishop Tutu, Trevor Huddleston, Rev Alan Boesak, Rev Frank Chikane )hawa ni viongozi wa kidini ambao walisimama kidete kupambana na udhalimu uliokuwa unafanywa na serikali ya makaburu. Up to this day Bishop Tutu ( Small frame, Small voice, Great Mind!) ni mwiba mkali hata kwa serikali ya sasa ya ANC pale inapopotoka. These are not catholics! And of course I need ten pages to decribe the political activities of Rev Dr Ian Paisley of Norther Ireland.
My point here ni kwamba kuna mifano lukuki namna ambavyo dini imesaidia kutetea haki za wanyonge ( the reverse is also true in many instances but that is not the subject matter of this thread). My personal beliefs so far they are irrelevant because here we are discussing religion as an institution something which may not change with my personal beliefs.
As for reading books..well we need to read books my friend hata kama vitabu vimeandikwa na binadamu kama sisi!
Reading is to the brain what exercise is to the body. start ordering now,
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