New Believer Jailed in Mexico for Receiving Christ

Crosswalk.com ^ | April (17th?) 2007 | Jeff Sellers

[Terriergal]

Hmmm.... well, what are the odds this poor fellow coudn't legally get amnesty in this country?

[ndt]

Is this the “Catholics aren’t Christians” thread?

[sagar]

Hmm. Converting Christians to Christianity. hmm.

[Gumdrop]

This is a strange story. It makes no sense whatsoever.

[Politicalmom]

Sounds like they have perverted Catholicism to something else.

[D-fendr]

My bet is “they” did. They being the article’s author.

[chuckles]

....."Is this the “Catholics aren’t Christians” thread".....

If you pray to statues, paintings, and locks of hair and bones and other dead people, I guess the shoe fits.

[I still care]

The Catholicism in many of these rural Mexican areas is really a mix of paganism and Catholicism. Read a little on the ceremonies of of the Day of the Dead and such, and you will get the idea.

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~rjsalvad/scmfaq/muertos.html

[napscoordinator]

Is this the “Catholics aren’t Christians” thread?

I was thinking that he deserved to go to jail for giving up being a Catholic. /sarc.

[Gamecock]

They said, ‘What do you mean that you’ve accepted Christ – you mean you don’t believe in our gods

I've said it before, the more third world the parish, the more pagan it obviously becomes. Middle class American catholics would be appalled about about Catholicism looks like even in some parts of America..

[voiceinthewind]

Funny,one should mention going to jail for ones faith. Father Miguel Pro was jailed and executed in Mexico for being a believer of Christ. He, along with hundreds of others, refused to give up their Christian Faith, and were martyred by the Mexican government. He died, arms extended as though he were on a cross,in front of a firing squad. His last words were, translated, “Long Live Christ the King.”

How Christian is that?

[aruanan]

“They said, ‘What do you mean that you’ve accepted Christ – you mean you don’t believe in our gods [Catholic saints]?’” Mendez told Compass.

The Pope needs to send in the enforcers and kick their syncretist asses into shape.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

****Is this the “Catholics aren’t Christians” thread?

I was thinking that he deserved to go to jail for giving up being a Catholic. /sarc.****

If I remember my history, when the French took Mexico and established Maximilian as emperor, the emperess Carlotta said one of her plans was to convert Mexico to the Catholic religion because too much of Mexico’s semi-catholic beliefs were tainted with Indian Paganism.

[happygrl]

This Evangelical agrees with you.

It is because of syncretist forms of Christianity which have predominated in the so-called Third World, that they have yet to redeem their cultures, as Europe and the Christian Middle East did, and transform their families, politics, and culture.

[voiceinthewind]

The state in the article, Chiapas, has one of the lowest percentages of Catholics in Mexico. Right now Islam seems to be winning converts there.

[happygrl]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1819122/posts

[TBP]

Bump.

[Quix]

PING

[kawaii]

“They said, ‘What do you mean that you’ve accepted Christ – you mean you don’t believe in our gods [Catholic saints]?’” Mendez told Compass.

I don't buy this for a second.

[kawaii]

So much for Romans 15:20-21...

Rom 15:20 Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man’s foundation:

Rom 15:21 But as it is written, To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see: and they that have not heard shall understand.