Mexico Shows How Christians Shoot Each Other


I've been to Mexico a few times and wish I could spend time there now. The most memorable visit was decades ago when wife and I drove all the way through Mexico to Guatemala. I found the rural areas of south part of Mexico to be exotic places. I spoke a little Spanish back then and tried to engage rural people along the road in Spanish but came to realize many spoke local Indian languages. This remains the case today in the State of Hildago where the story in the link unfolds. 

Small villages had huge Catholic churches when I was there. I wondered then, and wonder today, how these were built is areas where terrible poverty seemed the norm and what kind of Catholicism prevailed in these areas seemingly little changed by the invasion of Europeans.

Today, Protestant evangelicals are chased around by a version of Catholics. This link sheds a little light on the history and current events in these areas. According to the link Catholicism has merged with existing local religions so there are various hybrids. These, in turn, are being invaded by the relentless marketing of evangelical Protestantism. The hybrid Catholic cultures find the invading evangelicals revolting and threatening. The are stories of persecution of local evangelicals by the local Catholics. Cult forces are there.   

I read in article on the web and in comments during years of blogging that all "genuine" and/or "authentic" versions of the Christian faith have a thing or two in common. None of these Christian pundits have gone into areas where indigenous cultures have modified the Christian missionaries and priests to form local versions of the faith. Is it anyone's business to go into these areas and scold locals for believing what their parents taught them? As long as numbers and money help Catholics or Protestants it will be look the other way and carry on. 

If reports like the link are accurate that local parishes are discriminating against Protestant evangelicals, is Rome doing anything about this? Probably nothing. That these two branches of what is called Christianity at are war with each other was inevitable. When religious passions exist but there is disagreement about which faction is right, there is fighting. 

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