Religion: Both Marx and Jesus

Christians must decide definitively for the revolution . . . [but] they must come without the pretension of evangelizing the Marxists and without the cowardice of hiding their faith in order to assimilate themselves . . . When Christians dare to give an integral revolutionary testimony, the Latin American revolution will be invincible.

—Che Guevara

More than 400 self-proclaimed "Christians for Socialism," meeting in Santiago, Chile, last month, acted on Che's prophecy. They declared that the time has come for "a strategic alliance of revolutionary Christians and Marxists in the process of liberating the...

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