(Also not recognized by the Catholic Church, in case that needs to be said)
Posted on 05/16/2010 6:32:18 AM PDT by Gamecock
Edited on 05/16/2010 6:34:09 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
A family has built what could be the first public shrine in Mexico City to Jesus Malverde, Mexico's so-called "narco-saint" revered by many of the nation's drug traffickers.
Malverde, whose original shrine is located in the city of Culiacan in northern Sinaloa state
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They should include that communist who called religion the opiate of the masses.
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(Also not recognized by the Catholic Church, in case that needs to be said)
Sort of like so-called protestants who revere Fred Phelps.
Maybe you should get together with your P2 brothers and take care of the problem then.
The latest Smithsonian magazine has an extensive and very disturbing article about this subject that is very much worth reading.
Like I've said before...........you have no idea what you're talking about.
Catholicism was brought to Mexico in the early 16th century.
What religions were practiced in Mexico before that time and in some places, still are?
That's right. Pagan religions.
Sometimes old habits die hard.
The paganism is a holdover from centuries, even millenia, of paganism.
***Sometimes old habits die hard.***
Hundreds of years?
Sounds more like Rome selling out to collect tithes from the pagans than converting them.
There's no such concept as "tithing" in the Catholic church. You can go to Mass every day for your entire life and never put a penny in the collection basket, and nobody would care. Nobody's counting.
It may have escaped your notice but we've been trying to convert the world to Jesus for two millenia and are not there yet. Not by a long shot. Four hundred years (Mexico) is a relatively short space of time in comparison.
Pagan traditions in Mexico and elsewhere in Central America go back thousands of years and long predate Christianity.
"Roman Catholicism" has "it's" [sic] roots in Mexico? Who knew?
You're really reaching this time. Drug dealers "venerate" a "saint" of their own invention ... and that's Catholicism's fault?
I might as well point to Mormons and say, "the further away Protestantism is from northern Europe, the more its Gnostic roots show".
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