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Chavez flays Catholic leaders
22/10/2007 15:59 - (SA)
So, will the "progressive" churches denounce Hugo Chavez or slavishly admire his "progressive" reforms? I think I answered my own question:
"Birds of a feather flock together."
"They say the reform is morally unacceptable - they are morally unacceptable,"
Let me translate-"I know you are, but what am I?"
Is it just me, or does the world produce-almost universally-the most idiotic, mentally unfit leaders? I doubt any progressive church will support, as a denomination anyway, a man who is a dictator and a bully.
Sometimes the silence is deafening...
I doubt any progressive church will support, as a denomination anyway, a man who is a dictator and a bully.
I'm not so sure of that. There exist several liberal church organizations who seem to be pretty cozy with Castro and Hamas, not to mention the fact that they are deafening with their silence about extremist Islam--while screaming incessantly about extremist American Christians. There seems to be an inability by liberal church organizations to recognize the real danger in the world.
Will
Hi Will-
Which denominations are you referring to? Can you point me to some examples?
Nathan...do you recall the Methodist greeting and invitation to Chavez when he visited the U.N.?
The World Council of Churches is infamous for its blind eye toward such regimes.
See this article:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Pu...8sphbe.asp
Saint Hugo
The Religious Left begins its embrace of Hugo Chávez.
by Mark D. Tooley
05/18/2006 12:00:00 AM
Actually I had not heard about the Methodist lovefest for uncle Hugo; very strange indeed.
I'm annoyed by people who refuse to criticize our own government's failures in democracy, but go all out to complain about other countries; by the same token, those who point the finger of blame at home but praise other countries without paying any attention to history or facts are equally annoying.
The perfect example is health care; rightists praise our system (such as a system exists here) and denounce the universal health care of, say, Canada. On the other hand, lefties like to worship at the altar of Health Canada as if it were perfect. Health care is too complex to be placed in such simplistic buckets.
Amen to that.
Now, Venezuela and all of Central and S. America have longstanding issues with the predominance of the Catholic Church...for better or worse. There are legitimate reasons to be against a domineering RCC presence....but to replace it with a dictator is a false choice. Because some Venezuelan protestant groups have found favor with Chavez..because he opposes the RCC...and can use them as a wedge...they openly endorse quite a bit of his agenda. Sad...
I realize the average citizen in these countries has been exploited by all powers that be....Church, right and left Govts, some corporations etc...but bouncing back and forth between extremes is no way to solve the problems.
Unfortunately, we are in a time when oil wealth allows some of the world's bad guys too much influence....there are rough times ahead. In a 180 degree turn...a former rogue nation...though not too different in many instances but somewhat improved is Libya. Any maybe, just maybe, we are entering a new era with N. Korea. Of course, watching Pakistan implode raises serious concerns....all the world needs is a nuclear missile armed Islamofascist state. We have to hope Bhutto can hold onto democracy post Musharref. Unless they eliminate...and I mean by force...all such elements this cancer will fester and be a source of endless death and destruction. Ok...that is my rant for the quarter.