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Here is the true liberative ethical question: do we fight for justice because we know we will win, or do we fight for justice, regardless of the outcome, for the sake of justice alone?

If we argue that the greatest threat to human dignity is a savage militarized capitalism that dehumanizes people for the sake of profit and is excepted virtually as faith; then the only hope of resistance for the worlds disenfranchised may lie within their own faith traditions. Rather than religion being the opiate of the people, its more liberative interpretations might prove to be complicit in their salvation

He (Juan Luis Segundo) saw theology as a reflection of the experiences of ordinary believers, not an academic discipline that can claim neutrality while masking an ideology that protects the interests of the dominant culture.