-DATE- 19851129 -YEAR- 1985 -DOCUMENT_TYPE- MESSAGE -AUTHOR- F. CASTRO -HEADLINE- CASTRO LIKENS CHRISTIANITY, CUBAN STATE -PLACE- HAVANA, CUBA -SOURCE- PRENSA LATINA -REPORT_NBR- FBIS -REPORT_DATE- 19851202 -TEXT- CASTRO LIKENS CHRISTIANITY, CUBAN STATE PA292138 Havana PRENSA LATINA in English 2053 GMT 29 Nov 85 -- FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY [All quotation marks as received] [Text] Havana, Nov 29 (PL) -- Cuban President Fidel Castro considers there are many common things between the doctrines of the church and the revolution. That opinion is expressed in the book "Fidel Castro and Religion", based on an interview given by Fidel Castro to Brazilian Dominican theologist Fray Betto (Frei Betto), which will be presented in its Cuban edition during the opening of "the second meeting of intellectuals for the sovereignty of the peoples of our America." The book, which is a result of 23 hours of talks, in four different sessions, was already published in Brazil becoming a best-seller in a few weeks. Fidel Castro explained that all the commandments of the law of God could be perfectly subscribed to Cuba, referring as example, to the principle of "do not steal", which is one of the characteristics of the Cuban revolution, which has eliminated robbery, corruption and misappropriation. He said that among the things mainly rejected by the revolution is the use of lies, and regarding "to love your neighbor as thyself", that is what is precisely predicated "through the feeling of human solidarity which is the essence of socialism and communism". If the church has said, for example, "do not desire your neighbor's wife", we consider that one of the ethical elements of relations among revolutionaries is precisely, the principles of respect to the family and to the wife of others....", he pointed out. Fidel Castro mentioned the missioners [as received] and the internationalist and set the example of the 2,000 Cuban teachers who went to Nicaragua and "lived under very tough conditions together with the Nicaraguan peasant families". He referred to the hypocrisy of some supposedly devout figures, among who is the head of the Chilean regime, Augusto Pinochet, "who has on his conscience the death of thousands of people", and he recalled the false statements of the U.S. Government about South America, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Cuba as well as the death of millions of people during the Vietnam war, which was also born from lies". One thing is really clear there is a great amount of hyprocrisy among all those people, who have many times even evoked the name of God to carry out those crimes". [sentence as received] Fidel Castro said that if the church was to organize a state according to Christian principles "it would organize a state such as ours". Regarding this he said Cuba had irradicated [as received] gambling, drugs, prostitution and unemployment, there are no beggers on the streets, no abandoned children or elders, or any other problems that would not be accepted in a state ruled by Christian principles. "All that against which we have fought, all those problems we have resolved, would be the same ones which the church would resolve if it were to organize a civil state according the principles of Christianism", stressed Fidel Castro. -END-