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1/"Socialism is not only a political necessity but a Christian necessity. Faith itself requires that one take a position in the class struggle on the side of those who are exploited. The realization of faith requires participation in the revolutionary process." — Dorothee Sölle
2/ "The purpose, therefore, is not to make faith an instrument in the service of politics, but to destroy the calculated utilization which is made of faith at present."
3/ "In bourgeois society religion has become a private affair,
with the result that the Church would be able to define Christian identity by reducing it to an individual dimension (the relationship between God and me), totally abstract (separated from social conditioning).
with the result that the Church would be able to define Christian identity by reducing it to an individual dimension (the relationship between God and me), totally abstract (separated from social conditioning).
4/ "This privatization and abstraction have been the price that the Church has had to pay bourgeois society in order to be able to claim a universal action and influence."
5/ "Someone who stands up against the utilization of
the Gospel for partisan ends ought especially to understand this defense as a contribution to a practical withdrawal of Christianity from the 'embrace' of capitalism."
the Gospel for partisan ends ought especially to understand this defense as a contribution to a practical withdrawal of Christianity from the 'embrace' of capitalism."
6/ "It is hardly a matter, therefore, of our dragging class warfare into a church which had previously been outside of it, but of recognizing that middle-class Christianity contributes to the psychological and emotional consolidation of the dominant system..."
7/ "... thereby giving a seemingly permanent quality to the confusion between the content of bourgeois ideology — linked to special interests and the maintenance of certain privileges — and the affirmations of the Gospel. This one-sided utilization of love is contrary to faith."
8/ "That Jesus engaged in dialogue with those on the margin of the society of his time and with those collaborating with a foreign power is explained to us with sentimental connotations, never with a sense of its possible political radicalism."
9/ "As Christians ... all this is supposed to mean that we should neither eat, speak or negotiate with communists."
10/ "The escape of Christianity from the snares of capitalism is therefore one of the principal tasks of Christians for Socialism. In working for this they ought to recall the global and partisan meaning of Xian tradition. A love w/o class struggle remains idealist and abstract."
