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God Still Doesn't Like Commies
17 November 2005
In the breath before the rush to denounce former Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet, for his courtroom statements that a) God will forgive him for his murderous excesses; and b) that God moved his hand while he merely suffers for deeds God willed; a moment to register the memory of the Cold War marriage between God and anti-communist movements evoked by Pinochet's statement, c) "Everything that I did, all that I carried out, all the problems I had, I dedicate to God, all this I dedicate to Chile because this permitted that the country was not communist and arose as it is today." And the people said Amen?

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