Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Because being "God-King" never gets old

Apropos of our discussion about what is a religion, check out the latest from Venezuela, where they're hard at work trying to create a Cult of Personality around the late dictator Hugo Chavez.
"Our Chavez who art in heaven, the earth, the sea and we delegates," red-shirted delegate Maria Estrella Uribe recited on Monday at the PSUV party Congress."Hallowed be your name, may your legacy come to us so we can spread it to people here and elsewhere. Give us your light to guide us every day," she said in front of an image of Chavez."Lead us not into the temptation of capitalism, deliver us from the evil of the oligarchy, like the crime of contraband, because ours is the homeland, the peace and life forever and ever. Amen. Viva Chavez!" she exclaimed to applause.
It's always hard to know how seriously to take these things, but those of us who study North Korea know that what seems silly to can be all to real to other people.

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