What Protestant liberalism started, liberation theology took to its ultimate conclusion. It fundamentally redefined human sin. Sin was no longer understood as individual transgression against God’s law but was viewed only through the lens of structures and systems. Sin was exclusively confined to the system, removing the individual from the equation. The problem, according to liberation theology, is the oppression of comprehensive corporate, political, and economic systems. The oppressed share no individual moral or ethical culpability.
Liberation theology, moreover, prescribes a complete overhaul of Western civilization as the necessary remedy—the virtues, values, customs, laws, policies, and institutions that uphold the society must dissolve. Liberation’s project will only see justice secured when the society is revolutionized by a Marxist revolution that ushers in a new, liberated age.
~ Albert Mohler