Tea at Trianon: Liberation Theology and the KGB

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Liberation Theology and the KGB

From Christine Niles:

A former Soviet spy is claiming Liberation Theology is a movement created by the KGB. The KGB — the chief intelligence agency for the Soviet Union — was responsible for foreign intelligence, counter-intelligence, protecting Soviet leadership, as well as combating dissent. Ion Pacepa served as a general for the secret police in Communist Romania in the 1960s and 70s, until he defected to the United States. At the time, he was the highest-ranking Soviet Bloc intelligence official to defect.

He claimed in a recent interview that Liberation Theology is a phrase coined by the KGB in 1960, along with other similar movements at the time: The National Liberation Army of Columbia, with the aid of Fidel Castro; the National Liberation Army of Bolivia, with the support of Che Guevara; and the Palestine Liberation Organization, with the input of Yasser Arafat, to name a few.

According to Pacepa, Liberation Theology was approved by the chairman of the KGB to be a group meant to secretly control the World Council of Churches, an international inter-church association representing nearly 600 million Christians of various denominations worldwide. The KGB used the WCC to introduce and promote Liberation Theology as a revolutionary movement to progressive South American bishops. The bishops in turn promoted the marxist ideology to their flocks. (Read more.)