It's Vonnegut, not God. Or is he?

I wish I believed in signs. After mentioning Vonnegut in my previous post regarding religion the Sunday edition of the Kansas City Star had a short article on the author. The article was about his books becoming available on audio, nothing astounding but the article began with Religion and Politics. I can't leave you without these quotes:

[Vonnegut] has such glorious rants, like the one about Veterans Day, which
he still reveres as Armistice Day.

On that day in 1918, “millions upon millions of human beings stopped
butchering one other,” he writes. “I have talked to old men who were on
battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that
the sudden silence was the voice of God. So we still have among us some men who
can remember clearly when God spoke to mankind.”

Armistice Day, he says, is “sacred. Veterans Day is not.”

He carries on about the “evil nonsense” taught to U.S. schoolchildren —
such as that 1492 was the date North America was discovered, when “actually,
millions of human beings were already living full and imaginative lives on the
continent in 1492. That was simply the year in which sea pirates began to cheat
and rob and kill them.”