Venezuelan Cardinal Tells Castro-Loving Commie Bastard: "Your Way Has Been Tried and Found Wanting"

From Catholic News Agency:

Caracas, Mar 14, 2007 / 07:03 am (CNA).- The Archbishop of Caracas, Cardinal Jorge Urosa, said this week Venezuela would not benefit from the installation of a brand of Marxist-Leninist socialism. Such as system under President Hugo Chavez would not lead to prosperity, but to a “great oppression of the people,” Cardinal Urosa said.

In an interview with the Venezuelan daily El Universal, the Cardinal rejected the statements of President Hugo Chavez that Jesus was a “socialist” and he said that the “21st century Socialism” being touted by Chavez is ambiguous.

Noting that during his speeches Chavez constantly encourages people to read Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Cardinal Urosa said, “Evidently he is telling us which road he is taking, and we tell him that it’s not for us, because it does not lead to prosperity.”

Urosa pointed out that the Socialist system with the Marxist-Leninist tendencies, as developed in Eastern Europe, “did not produce any benefit or progress and actually led to serious oppression of the people.”

“Jesus Christ was not a politician,” the Cardinal stressed, and “it cannot be said that Jesus Christ supports either the Socialist or the neo-liberal capitalist system, nor the monarchy, nor the republic.”

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