i heard that was the trend in latin america from the 60s onwards, but then john paul the second feared the catholic church in latam would get too powerful and started moving power away from it (somehow)
Religions often reflect the economic systems and class struggles; actual socialist forms of the religion would have been threat to the capitalism and feudal vestiges of the Holy See as an (European) institution. Sometimes it feels like if one really believed in a benevolent god then they would become a socialist but then I realise this is an idealistic non-materialistic approach to understanding humanity.
i heard that was the trend in latin america from the 60s onwards, but then john paul the second feared the catholic church in latam would get too powerful and started moving power away from it (somehow)
Religions often reflect the economic systems and class struggles; actual socialist forms of the religion would have been threat to the capitalism and feudal vestiges of the Holy See as an (European) institution. Sometimes it feels like if one really believed in a benevolent god then they would become a socialist but then I realise this is an idealistic non-materialistic approach to understanding humanity.