You know, some people are so desperate to make conversation during an awkward meeting that they’ll say any foolish thing in an attempt to establish something in common with the other person. I knew that was true. I just didn’t know that Hugo "The-Hell-With-You-I’m-a-Maoist" Chavez was one of them:
{Chavez says non-believing Castro is a Christian — in the social} sense
ROME (AP) — Fidel Castro may not be a believer, but he’s a Christian in a certain sense, according to his close
friend, Venezuela’s leftist President Hugo Chavez.
"I have a friend who isn’t Christian, but who recently said he is Christian in the social sense: His name is Fidel Castro," Chavez said after arriving in Rome Wednesday to meet with Pope Benedict XVI at the start of a five-nation European and North African tour.
"I talk to him a lot about Christ each time we see each other, and he told me recently, ‘Chavez, I’m Christian in the social sense,"’ Chavez told reporters.
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