Does the Obamessiah Have Competition?
For those of you who know people who can’t stop caterwauling about the looming Theocracy in America, please introduce them to what I like to call The First Church of Chavez (via protein wisdom). It’s his church, bankrolled with his stolen oil money and purposed to condemn liberty and capitalism at every turn. Lest you think I’m being hyperbolic, the church’s mission statement makes no bones about why it’s there.
According to its leaders, the reformist church seeks to establish an institution that is “inclusive, participatory and with a strong Bolivarian spirit that recognizes Jesus Christ as the Lord of History. He is present in the revolutionary process that is occurring in Venezuela.”
A former Roman Catholic priest, Jon Jen Siu Garcia, was elected coadjutor, and noted to the Venezuelan press that his mission is to “liberate people from capitalist values.”
”We are learning to see the lower classes like Hugo Chávez, who has cared to attend to their necessities,” said Leonardo Marin Saavedra, bishop of the Anglican Latin American Church. A resident of Canada, he was invited to Venezuela especially to attend the upcoming ceremonies. “We are struggling against exploitation and the empire of the United States.”
Sounds like a place where Barack Obama’s former ministers and spiritual mentors, not to mention a good chunk of the Democratic party would feel very welcome indeed. It’s the same message folks like Jeremiah Wright and Michael Pfleger have been preaching for decades. To Obama’s credit, he’s never actually formed a church around him. Officially. Yet.
I’d expect to hear very soon that other churches will not find themselves very welcome in Venezuela. I don’t expect to hear much criticism at all from the progressives about one of their most favorite tyrants, either.
(cross-posted at The Sundries Shack)
Well… the Venezuelan people has grown tire of seeing bishops and cadinals supporting coups de e’tat and displaying their hipocresy as christians towards the people, these catholic priests are nothing but a bunch of thugs representing the vatican mafia.
The church is not receiving any stolen oil money, that is just a clear example of how the vatican will try to descredit them.
God will be the judge and the pope and bishops and cardinals will face the flames of hell!