Criticism of religion is a prerequisite of liberation because religion helps preserve, defend, or justify oppressive systems. Even believers who support liberation must engage and critique traditional forms of their own religion. Liberation theology seeks to reform religious traditions from within; liberation atheology dispenses with religion as unreformable, complicit in oppression, and/or hopelessly reactionary. Liberation atheology doesn't guarantee an end to all possible oppression, but ending oppression based on religious tradition and divine will render important tools of authoritarian oppression impotent.
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