According to some liberation theologians atheism is not the cause of the conflict between Christianity and Marxism, but is rather the link between them.
Ernesto CardenalI began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.
Ernesto CardenalI am not interested in an economic liberation of man without the liberation of the whole man.
Ernesto CardenalWhat Marxism calls atheism is basically the negation of an idol, which sometimes bears the name of God.
Ernesto CardenalThere is however difference between the theology of liberation and traditional theology, the latter being based primarily On the Word of God made incarnate in the Holy Scripture Liberation theology is of course also inspired by the Word, but its representatives are convinced that God also speaks to us in everyday events and that, for example, information obtained through the mass media can be a special way in which God speaks to us.
Ernesto Cardenal