Ian Vasquez over at the Cato@Liberty blog reports that Venezuela's Hugo Chavez said
Every day I’m more of a revolutionary, every day I’m more socialist… I’m going to take Venezuela toward socialism, with the people and the workers…The revolution is not negotiable, socialism is not negotiable, because every day I’m more convinced that socialism is the kingdom of God on earth. That is what Christ came to announce.
Apparently Chavez has a God-given right to expropriate the privately owned means of production. I suppose he believes that the Lord on his side, so how can he possibly fail to deliver his people out of the world of scarcity and into the world of heaven on earth?
As for me, I'll bet on the economic way of thinking against Chavez's religion from now until doomsday.