Fighting cancer, Chavez seeks aid from deities

Associated Press ^ | August 4, 2011 | CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER

[Free ThinkerNY]

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Hugo Chavez told a gathering of soldiers Thursday that he's seeking divine support from the indigenous deities and spirits of Venezuela's central plains to help him survive cancer.

"Cancer? What is that for me? I have faith in the spirits of the plains that I'll prevail. I will live and we will win the elections next year," Chavez told hundreds of troops massed in formation at Fort Tiuna, Venezuela's largest military installation.

[TigersEye]

Dinner for eternity with either one of them makes Dante’s description of hell sound like a day at the beach.

[EQAndyBuzz]

It amazes me that Communists villify religion and on their death beds ask God to save them.

Somewhere God is sitting down, having a beverage and saying to his guests, “sure, I’ll save him.... NOT”

[clearcarbon]

Has he tried praying to obama?

[Calliecat]

(For that matter, IIRC I think the mother-in-law of the One also believes in Santeria, and in keeping a certain House clean of the spirits...)

Rumor has it, Billybob snapped a chicken neck or two back in the bitterly partisan '90s.

[denydenydeny]

Good luck with that, buddy. The “indigenous dieties” will help you as well as they helped the indigenous Venezuelans fight the Spanish.

[Delta 21]

James 4:13 Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town, stay there a year, conduct business, and make money.”

14 You do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

15 Instead you should say, “If the Lord wants us to, we will live-and do this or that.”

16 But you boast about your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.

17 Therefore, anyone who knows what is right but fails to do it is guilty of sin.

[max americana]

I’ve got your deity right here, hugo...and FU

[RetiredTexasVet]

I pray to a real God that Hugo gets everything he richly deserves.

[Dapper 26]

I wonder if he’s smelling the sulfur yet?

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

I hope he gets AIDS from a monkey!

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

he's seeking divine support from the indigenous deities and spirits of Venezuela's central plains to help him survive cancer.

Dead in six months!

Regards,
GtG

[calex59]

Any God worth his salt would hit this SOB with a lightening bolt right off the bat and not wait for the cancer to get him. BTW, he is sounding off too much about living, I think he knows he is toast.

[cpdiii]

Some of Venezuela’s previous dictators have been big into Santeria, etc. (especially one fellow whose name escapes me now, but he ruled in the 1930s and always had a Santeria witchdoctor at his side

Perez Jinmenez

[cpdiii]

Hugo you put down Capitalism all your life and now you have to depend on third world medicine.

Wrong, he went to Cuba to be treated by Spanish physicians from Spain.

[SteveH]

I give him one month before he arrives in Boston for treatment.

[MoochPooch]

Sounds like he is relying on “alternative” medicine, which is often the last resort for the incurably ill. Which means, then, that he is at least Stage 4, if not terminal.

[RowdyFFC]

Wasn’t Hillary holding seances to meet ups with Eleanor Roosevelt?

[VanShuyten]

How about starting a Freeper "Dead Pool"? I'll put in $5 for a date, and whoever wins, donates the pool to keep Free Republic online.

I pick November 8, 2012.

One of you spreadsheet geeks out there keep tabs on the totals.

[Cheapskate]

Hugo!As much as this pains me,I must plead with you to ignore

any "gods of the Plains"and surrender your life to " Jesus of Nazareth".

[count-your-change]

Always room in the ground for one more box.