Remember how the religious right suggested that AIDS was god's way of smiting gays? Hell, they still do.

So what can we conclude when -- days after the Pope compares abortion to the holocaust -- god makes the pontiff so ill that his voice must be removed with a tracheotomy? The Holy See equates a woman's right to choose with the extermination of six million Jews and he is silenced, possibly forever, two days later.

Hmm. Maybe there is a god...