Cardinals or Soldiers? / Agustín Valentín López Canino

Chief Hatuey being burnt at the stake. From historyofcuba.com

What ranks in the military hierarchy would correspond to the equivalent of Cardinal? Commander of the Revolution? General? Colonel of State Security? Minister of Defense? Deputy Chief of Army? Could he have won the last ascent for the sacrilegious statements about the 13 unhappy people, with their lives ruined because of the great Revolution; those who entered the Church in supplication for their rights, and who were locked behind bars, by the miserable and abominable behavior of the State.

Mercy, Lord, mercy, Lord … ?!

The Cardinal shameless already exceeds the Inquisition. There have been hundreds of years of evolution. The spit of a Cardinal on the poor and humble, in these times because of the human condition, is to commit the same outrage as judges of the Inquisition.

And many who conceived the Catholic God today prefer to be burned at the stake like the Indian Hatuey: “If you Spanish are going to heaven, I want to go to hell.” Today the sensitive Indian rebel would say: “If you Cardinals go to heaven, hell would be a paradise.”

May God forgive them and forgive me because I can not forgive them. My holiness is not so great, while my eye is on my Cubans within and at the bottom, forced by cardinals with military ranks and Communist ideologies to lose salvation.

“But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.”

30 April 2012