"As we see it, a perhaps faulty presentation of the Christian message may have given the impression that religion is indeed the opiate of the people. And we would be guilty of betraying the cause of Peru's development, if we did not stress the fact that the doctrinal riches of the Gospel contain a revolutionary thrust."
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Peruvian Bishop's Commission for Social Action, Between Honesty and Hope (1970), p. 74, as cited in A Theology of Liberation (1971), p. 116
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