Douc COLLINS PROFESSOR ANGUS Gunn of West Vancouver is that rarity in the academic world: a man who has an open mind on South Africa and does his best to explain the com- plicated situation in that country. Not that he has much success at UBC. As he once told me, most academics simply don’t want to hear. So much for the university ideal of open inquiry. That’s a pity, because Gunn has a lot to impart. That’s why I went to hear him speak on Liberation Theology. Chances are you know nothing about that subject. I was hazy on it myself. But the professor is well informed on it. Liberation Theology seeks to persuade the multitudes that Christ was a commie. Or, if not a com- mie, at least a socialist who can free the poor and oppressed from their chains. In Africa, for in- stance, the liberation theologists show pictures of ‘‘Comrade Jesus.’’ (Marx in the manger.) Christ hijacked for the cause. “The liberationists love our double Standard on South Africa, just as Lenin loved his ‘useful idiots.’’’ With the help of left-wing Cath- olics, the idea has made massive inroads in Latin America, thanks in large part to Fidel Castro, who has a Roman Catholic population to deal with and knows an effec- tive lie when he sees one. . South Africa is also a focus of the liberationists, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu is one of them. However, that lover of the capital- ist fleshpots who has his kids educated abroad claims he is not a Marxist. He only uses ‘‘Marxist insights.’’ That reminds me of how Castro once denied he was a communist. I am not suggesting that Tutu sees himself as a kind of Castro, of course, and neither did Prof. Gunn. But Tutu unashamedly supports the communist-controlled African National Congress. “Every Christian must be a rev- olutionary,’’ stated Tutu, and ‘‘I am a revolutionary.’’ Simple, see? Liberation theologists are to be found in almost every church and are big in the protestant World Council of Churches, which for years has supported African guer- rilla movements. ‘‘Liberation”’ is everything, and for them, heaven will dawn when the wretched whites are overthrown. As Gunn pointed out, that is a gross piece of liberation mythology. But it serves its pur- pose, for as the opposition litera- ture on this subject puts it, ‘‘com- bating racism is often a front for the support of liberation theology’’ — and Marxism. In South Africa, the big ‘‘libera- tionist’’ push began in 1985 with the publication of the Kairos Document. This was a ‘‘Challenge to the Church” endorsed by icp clergymen. As their critics explain, it is based solidly on Marxist- Leninist ideological concepts with a sprinkling of Bible quotations to give it a religious flavor.’” A National Citizens Action Network pub‘ication in the U.S. describes the situation succinctly: the Kairos Document paints the struggle in South Africa as a class conflict caused by ‘‘the domina- tion and exploitation of a capitalist minority.’’ Capitalism, states the Kairos Document, can only be got rid of through violent revolution. The Church, however, must not initiate its own line of action. ‘‘It must subordinate its programs to those of certain political organizations, including ... the African National Congress.”* All this shows why churches were so prominent in the fight against what used to be Rhodesia, and why they lead in the current attempt to put South Africa down. But they do not campaign against the U.S.S.R., Communist China, or the Castro crowd. Ordinary church-goers know that their churches are invotved in the holy crusade to ‘‘liberate’’ South Africa. But they are not aware of the forces that are at work. Why should they be? Don’t we have dupes like our Archbishop Ted Scott preaching ‘‘liberation?”’ Haven’t I heard that reverend gent say that violence in a good cause may be justified. Wasn’t violence against the Nazis justified? The liberationists love our dou- bie standard on South Africa, just as Lenin loved his ‘‘useful idiots.” Incidentally, I recommend the new, updated edition of Professor Gunn’s book South Africa: A World Challenged. It is the best thing of its kind on the market, and is published by Legacy Press at $9.95. Mining museum gets funding CAPILANO-HOWE Sound MP Mary Collins recently announced that the British Columbia Museum of Mining will receive federal funding for a job creation program under Section 38 of the Unemployment Insurance Act. The Britannia Beach-based museum will be receiving $77,600 from the federal government in order to assist it: the installation of a National Historic Site Plaque and Monument, the renovations to the structure and gift shop, the landscaping and upgrading of the parking lot, the upgrading of the machine and welding shops and the development of a computer program. The projects will allow for more permanent jobs as further devel- opment of the museum progresses. Federal assistance to the museum will provide employment for five people for a total of 160 work weeks. 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