I believe church and state should be separate in a democratic government. All individuals should be allowed to practice any sort of faith, but the state shouldn’t favour any one in particular. Whenever President Milei summons “the forces of heaven,” I wonder what he means. I’d rather trust the strength of the people, the citizens, our own forces, to recover the country we deserve. And I’d substitute “divine punishment” for voters’ punishment in the dark room. Besides, if God exists (and Friederich Nietzsche was wrong), I guess He/She must be quite busy dealing with the wars that are currently endangering the whole planet. Milei’s trip to Chaco for the inauguration of an evangelical church sounds fishy, particularly after we learned that a “financial miracle” took place there. Believe it or not, 100,000 pesos were apparently transformed into 100,000 US dollars, a quintessential example of Gabriel García Márquez’s “magical realism.” What a surrealist country. Sigh …
Buenos Aires Times, July 12, 2025