Touchy, touchy. This isn’t the only example of an occult death cult centered around purported “saints,” it isn’t even the only one in Mexico.
And then there’s the Carribean.
Maybe there’s something wrong with the practice, of attributing certain gifts or abilities to dead people and presuming to make requests of them? Seems to morph into pagan pantheism rather readily and persistently in numerous locales.
To some, it might appear that there’s a deeper problem across the board. We were warned against idols and false gods for a reason. But that’s just ignorance, vitriol and “bashing,” according to defensive partisans.
Have a nice day.
Maybe there's something wrong with trying to turn a story about recrudescent paganism in Mexico, which is strenuously opposed by the Church, into yet another occasion to attack Catholicism on FR?
Fact: This cult doesn't involve a "dead person". It doesn't involve a Catholic saint, despite the name. The Church condemns it.
There are PCUSA Presbyterians out there praying to "Sophia", which sounds suspiciously like some sort of fertility cult or goddess worship. Should I make some broad-brush claim about how that grows inherently out of Protestantism? Of course not; real, faithful Protestants find "Sophia" as suspicious as I do. Mutatis mutandis, La Santa Whatever is the same sort of thing.
Satan is quite happy to have you believe there is no merit in praying for the dead.
That’s why Luther through out the Book of Maccabees.