Desmond Tutu spoke recently against one of liberal Christianity’s – using the word in its loosest possible sense – favourite whipping boys: globalism. Amidst the ritual bromidic meanderings on “equality”, the environment (did you know the Icelandic volcanic ash eruption was a result of our not working together – I didn’t) and greed,  we find this from African theologians Rev. Allan Boesak, and the Rev.  Johann Weusmann:

The Evangelical Reformed Church in Germany in 2007 embarked on a project to study the effects of globalization in the context of the Accra Confession, a 2004 statement of the then World Alliance of Reformed Churches that critiqued neoliberal economics. The German church worked with the church in South Africa to gain the perspective of a developing country.

Much of the “very activist” report, as Boesak described it, is devoted to economic issues, and is explicitly meant as ammunition in what is seen as the battle against the domination by a  financial elite using “empire logic.”

Just as Christ rose up against the Roman empire, it is the duty of Christians to resist the “lordless powers” of the global capitalist empire, the report says. It looks at issues such as the global food crisis, financial markets, ecology and militarism. It sets out a detailed programme for “breaking the dominance of financial markets over the real economy.”  The report distinguishes between globalization and globalism.

Have these theologians read the Bible? Any of it? Christ didn’t rise up against the Roman empire; some of his followers wanted him to; so did Satan in the three temptations in the wilderness (Matt 4:8-9). Nevertheless, he explicitly said his kingdom is not of this world (John 18:36).