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2010-07-16 Caribbean-Latin America

Chavez: Venezuela rethinks relations with Vatican

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Posted by Fred 2010-07-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top
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#1 Be careful with this, Hugo. You might need to hide out in their embassy somewhere down the road while the 82nd Airborne surrounds the place and blasts Van Halen and AC/DC at about 11 twenty four hours a day.

Posted by tu3031 2010-07-16 09:17|| 2010-07-16 09:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Chavez also challenged the authority of Pope Benedict XVI, saying the pope "isn't God's emissary on Earth."

Stalin famously asked, "The Pope? How many divisions has he got." Where's Stalin's USSR today? That little behind the scene play in Poland got the dominoes falling that ended at the doorsteps of the Kremlin. Why not dare the Pope to excommunicate you and see how many of your ~~peons~~ prols will die to defend you?

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-07-16 09:33|| 2010-07-16 09:33|| Front Page Top

#3 "Oh, good plan, Jefe!"

Posted by mojo 2010-07-16 10:42|| 2010-07-16 10:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Money and power come first with this guy. Faith if it's convenient, I guess.

Posted by gorb 2010-07-16 11:14|| 2010-07-16 11:14|| Front Page Top

#5 Money and power come first with this guy. Faith if it's convenient, I guess.

Right On!

Oh, you were talking about Chavez.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2010-07-16 13:20|| 2010-07-16 13:20|| Front Page Top

#6 I don't know about Venezuela, but if you came off with that statement in Mexico you'd end up wandering the coutryside, a dirty old beggar, endlessly searching for your long lost nuts.

Catholics are essentially the only religion in all of latin america I have seen, spare a few Jehovah's Witnesses. I would guess that its the same there. They're not used to people discussing religion in an anti catholic way, much like muslims are not used to critique about mo-ham-head. You could get a surprising reaction from them.

Posted by bigjim-CA 2010-07-16 14:21|| 2010-07-16 14:21|| Front Page Top

#7 Chavez also challenged the authority of Pope Benedict XVI, saying the pope "isn't God's emissary on Earth."

In other news the leader of the 21st Bolivarian
Republic is looking to buy a few good historians. Oliver Stone is on board.

Posted by Shipman 2010-07-16 16:21|| 2010-07-16 16:21|| Front Page Top

#8 Bigjim, read the history of the Cristero War. The relationship between the Mexican government and the Catholic Church has not always been a happy one.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2010-07-16 17:16|| 2010-07-16 17:16|| Front Page Top

#9 My point was that Catholicism is pretty much IT in much of Latin America. I wonder how hardcore catholics will respond to criticism, they've likely never had to deal with it. They may react irrationally like 'you know who' when you ask too many questions about their religion. Not because they're violent, but because they've never had to deal with critique before.

Posted by bigjim-CA 2010-07-16 20:58|| 2010-07-16 20:58|| Front Page Top

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