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    Thursday, December 17, 2009, 10:09 AM

    chavezGiven what’s been said about me here after declining to sign the MD, I’m fearful to post anything that’s not a robust affirmation of the Gospel of jesus Christ which also includes all people at all time who have ever walked in the shadow of any post-Nicene tradition, but brave men face their fears.

    And to allay your fears: no, this is not a post about how other post-Nicene traditions are not the Gospel.

    This is a post about this bit of news from Copenhagen, reported in Australia.

    If we want to talk about false gospels, let’s talk about that one.

    7 Comments

      Andy
      December 17th, 2009 | 4:54 pm | #1

      It seems to me, and I could be really wrong since it’s just my limited vantage point, but there seems to be a correlation between those opposed to Hugo Chavez and those opposed to the co-belligerency agreement between RC’s, EO’s, and Protestants in the Manhattan Declaration.

      Frank Turk
      December 17th, 2009 | 5:31 pm | #2

      Hijacked without even one decent comment.

      That’s ugly.

      Adam Omelianchuk
      December 17th, 2009 | 5:42 pm | #3

      And incomprehensible!

      Mad Blogger!
      December 17th, 2009 | 7:10 pm | #4

      In the spirit of anti-Turk posts:
      1) Frank Turk posted a link to a blog post about Hugo Chavez
      2) Frank Turk must like Hugo Chavez.
      3) If Frank Turk likes Hugo Chavez, then Hugo Chavez must like Frank Turk, but
      4) Hugo Chavez doesn’t like anybody, so
      5) Frank Turk and Hugo Chavez are the same person!

      Rev. Paul T. McCain
      December 17th, 2009 | 9:05 pm | #5

      Better luck next time.

      Coyle
      December 17th, 2009 | 9:45 pm | #6

      I’ll bite, since no one else seems to be leaping on this.
      I completely agree that Chavez preaches a false gospel. In fact, I love how Whitaker Chambers put it:

      It is not new. It is, in fact, man’s second oldest faith. Its promise was whispered in the first days of the Creation under the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil: “Ye shall be as gods.” It is the great alternative faith of mankind. Like all great faiths, its force derives from a simple vision… It is the vision of man’s mind displacing God as the creative intelligence of the world. It is the vision of man’s liberated mind, by the sole force of its rational intelligence, redirecting man’s destiny and reorganizing man’s life and the world. It is the vision of man, once more the central figure of hte Creation, not because God made man in His image, but because man’s mind makes him the most intelligent of the animals. Copernicus and his successors displaced man as the central fact of the universe by proving that the earth was not t he central star of the universe. Communism restores man to his sovereignty by the simple method of denying God.

      Chavez is simply preaching another version of the glorification of man. And not a particularly subtle one, either.

      Blue Collar Todd
      December 18th, 2009 | 12:19 am | #7

      Will President Obama give him another warm embrace?