Önce biraz ağladılar, ama alıştılar şimdi. Aşağılık insanoğlu her şeye alışır.
At first they cried a little, but they have gotten used to it now. The wretched human being gets used to everything.
Liberation theology was a theological framework that systematized the preferential option for the poor and, in some cases, borrowed from the political vision of Marxism. As incompatible as they may be in other ways, both post–Vatican II Roman Catholicism and Marxism recognized that governments and societies are often organized to privilege a certain class or subgroup of citizens, leaving others on the margins without resources.
For liberationists, this meant that God’s care for the poor should be reflected in social changes that granted not only spiritual blessings but also greater access to material resources. In this way liberation theology viewed social equality and human flourishing in the temporal world as a visible sign of Christian salvation.
The Pentecostal movement was destined to launch itself not just vertically with a variety of black-majority or white-majority congregations affiliated with Pentecostal teachings and practice but also horizontally into every Protestant denomination in the country, eventually changing the face of Christianity, both Protestant and Catholic, across the globe. Its message and appeal were cross-cultural and multiethnic, and it spoke many languages, human and spiritual. Some studies suggest that at the beginning of the twenty-first century, one in four Christians around the world was Pentecostal or charismatic.
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will."
"Ben kuş değilim ve hiçbir ağ beni tuzağa düşüremez: Ben bağımsız bir iradeye sahip özgür bir insanım."
Instead of a distinct supernatural being suddenly breaking through the clouds to create the world, God, Liberals said, had been working for ages through natural law, slowly building the universe as we find it today until human beings developed an awareness of their spiritual selves. Most liberals agreed with the poet who said, “Some call it evolution, and others call it God.”