Shut Up and Play Your Guitar

There's a brand spanking new church in Venezuela, where they worship the Deity, of course, as well give a nod to God.

CABIMAS, Venezuela — From a makeshift chapel in a schoolhouse where a portrait of President Hugo Chávez and revolutionary slogans from his government adorn the entrance, the bishops of the new Reformed Catholic Church of Venezuela welcomed congregants to Sunday Mass.

Missionary Bishop Simón Alvarado, 39, strummed a guitar and led the small congregation in singing hymns. Bishop Coadjutor Jon Jen Siu-García, 37, preached a sermon on assisting the poor while his wife, Hiranioris Calles, 24, smiled at him from her seat on a white plastic chair.

“The church of Rome is fearful that it could lose more priests like us,” Bishop Siu-García said.

Beg to differ, Your Grace Alvarado, but I suspect Holy Mother Church prays fervently and daily she would lose more priests like you.

It's difficult to feel sorry for these pathetic stooges but I do. For when the inevitable occurs and the good people of Venezuela finally have had enough of the ruinous policies of El Maximo Chávez, they will dispatch him with no uncertainty then turn their wrath on his sycophants, including these tired relics of "liberation theology," dispatching them also; probably in a most unchristian way.