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New evidence from the Pew Research Center reveals that Mexican Catholics who emigrate to the United States are considerably less religious than their counterparts who remain in Mexico....Though the Pew study does not explore the reasons Mexican Catholics leave the Church when emigrating to the US, it does offer statistics that show a substantial decline of Catholic affiliation. While 81% of Mexicans identify themselves as Catholics, the number drops to 61% of Mexican Americans—a difference of 20%, or some four million persons, in real terms....Percentagewise, there are twice as many Mexican American Protestants as Mexican Protestants....
1 posted on 12/15/2014 8:08:30 AM PST by Alex Murphy
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17% of Mexican Americans claim no religious affiliation, compared with only 7% of Mexicans in this category.

Not no religion; the religion of Godless Liberalism.

2 posted on 12/15/2014 8:12:33 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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When Government provides all your needs what do you need God for?


3 posted on 12/15/2014 8:14:28 AM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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I can see why many people get frustrated with attending Mass.

I continue to attend Mass twice a week, but I am sick of all of the politics....especially the Church’s insistence that we accept and tolerate illegal immigration. I hear this constantly. Also they are now actively promoting driver’s licenses for illegal aliens. I hear this in church all of the time. It goes in one ear and out the other. I can see why a lot of people don’t like going to Mass anymore. Our new Pope and our archdiocese are very liberal.


6 posted on 12/15/2014 8:33:53 AM PST by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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When they get here they stop praying for work, a residence, healthcare, food, an Obamaphone and education for their children, because Uncle Sam takes care of all that.


7 posted on 12/15/2014 8:35:14 AM PST by Albion Wilde (It is better to offend a human being than to offend God.)
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To be fair, when your first act to illegally enter a Country entails breaking several of the Ten Commandments: Thou shalt not bare false witness; Thou shalt not steal; Thou shalt have no other gods before me (such as material wealth) ... I'm thinking these invaders were not all that rooted in their Religion to begin with.

And a pox on those so-called clerics who encourage people to openly sin in these actions.

11 posted on 12/15/2014 8:47:47 AM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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Mexican Catholicism has some interesting rituals. I’ve seen women walk on their knees to pray to an unnamed saint (mummified corpse supposedly a Christian from Roman catacombs) on display in a cathedral in a glass case.


12 posted on 12/15/2014 8:51:16 AM PST by peyton randolph (Good intentions do not excuse poor results.)
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This is an interesting topic and article, but not a particularly good article m

First off it is titled Mexicans lose religion, then it then states “some become Protestants”.

That’s not losing religion, it is in fact a good thing.

The other empty statistic is that 17% of Mexicans in the US have no religion compared to 7% in Mexico. It does not, though, examine if the 17% is due to selective bias in that perhaps a larger percentage of non-religious are in the group that chooses to go to the US.

It may not be that Mexicans become less religious in the US, but that a disproportionate number of non-religious Mexicans come. That could make sense given that many break the law to come.

Etc...

I do think that Mexican kids are subject to same same liberal propaganda schooling all kids get now and that would have something with loss of religious belief.


15 posted on 12/15/2014 9:12:40 AM PST by ifinnegan
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“New evidence from the Pew Research Center reveals that Mexican Catholics who emigrate to the United States are considerably less religious than their counterparts who remain in Mexico.”

When coming from a country where a single Christian denomination overwhelmingly dominates, it just may be that many who come from such country’s to the U.S. were, in the home country, more going-along-to-get-along followers than dedicated believers. If that’s true, their seemingly altered religious commitment to the Catholic church may not be altered at all - they may not have been that committed in the first place.


16 posted on 12/15/2014 9:15:01 AM PST by Wuli
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Majority of the Mexican freeloaders illegally come to American,protestants convert them, and they in turn vote for democrats who give them all the freebies. The devout hispanic Catholics that have lied in the US for generation after generation are Catholic and vote for republicans. My Mexican-American buddy I knew when I worked at the VA hospital, a retired Air Force master sergeant, relayed those facts to me.


22 posted on 12/15/2014 10:10:14 PM PST by NKP_Vet ("Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus")
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Mexican catholics tend to find Yeshua, and his Way, that the catholic church has denied for all 1600 years since it was formed by Constantine.

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29 posted on 12/16/2014 8:08:21 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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Yeah, they love their Jesus Malverde and accessing our welfare system.


40 posted on 12/16/2014 10:24:10 PM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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New evidence from the Pew Research Center reveals that Mexican Catholics who emigrate to the United States are considerably less religious than their counterparts who remain in Mexico.

Just trying to fit in with the REST of America!

41 posted on 12/17/2014 5:24:41 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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New evidence from the Pew Research Center reveals that Mexican Catholics who emigrate to the United States are considerably less religious than their counterparts who remain in Mexico.

Just trying to fit in with the REST of America!

Mexico has some of the strictest abortion laws in the world, and many women are finding themselves criminalised even after a miscarriage,

We've CHOICED about 57,000,000 future American citizens to death; Mexico is merely try to help us make up the slack by giving us it's...


...tired, it's poor, it's huddled masses yearning to breathe free...

42 posted on 12/17/2014 5:27:45 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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