Word: ortega
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...some religious figures, it's too much to stomach. "This is a great sin of religious and political hypocrisy," Father Cardenal told TIME. "[Ortega] wasn't a believer before, and he isn't now. His message is pure opportunism...
...Ortega, however, is still exploring whether his embrace of the Church, and his wife's supplemental beliefs, will bring his people any closer to the new earthly kingdom he promised. In Nicaragua, as he would have it, the book of Daniel is still being written...
...Ortega's courting of the Catholic hierarchy, however, alienated some traditional Sandinistas...
...true revolutionary government of the left tries to transform the image of God to support a cultural transformation based on equality and social justice," says María López, author of various theological works, including Just Jesus and Another God is Possible. However, she says, the Ortega government is fostering a conservative "religion of dependence" based on the image of a mysterious and powerful...
...Still, cynics note that Ortega's reinforcement of such a dependency is a savvy political move...