... I want to clarify the basis of our reflection. We are coming to realize that the fundamental root of Christian thought is the question: What is to be done? This is not a doctrinal question like: What do we believe? Nor is it a moral question we raise: How are we to do good?
Given our commitment to those who suffer most and who have the greatest right to head the liberation process, the question, What is to be done? reads more like and ultimatum! We Christians invented neither the question nor the answer. The concrete and actual protagonists of the revolutionary process are those who pose the question. It is the oppressed who demand of us a response, who challenge all Christians who are neither "hot nor cold."
9.23.2007
Diego Irarrazaval C., speaking of the Chilean liberation struggle, said,
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