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To: LLCF who wrote (9148)	4/16/2006 6:56:02 PM
From: LoneClone	of 78419

The relationship between the Catholic Church and Latin America has had many twists over the centuries. Originally, Catholicism was a key element in the enslavement, genocide, and robbery of the native populations from the original arrival of Europeans right up till the 1960s. But one of the Catholic church's chief strengths -- its syncretic nature which allowed it to meld with local religions and beliefs as compared to the more dogmatic Protestantism -- also laid the foundations for the liberation theology which emerged in the 1960s, chiefly in Brazil, as the result of the engagement of younger priests with the revolutionary and countercultural movements of that era. Eventually the church became a key contributor to the many liberation movements thoughout Latin America that overthrew some of the worst despots in spite of steadfast support of those butchers by the Americans. You may know the story of the assassination of Archbishop Romero in the early 1970s in El Salvador at the hands of American-backed hit squads, the same ones who also murdered four American nuns. The movie Salvador is an entertaining look at this era. (I hasten to add that this tendency in the Catholic was by no means unitary, as evidenced my many papal decrees against liberation theology.) More recently, the local elites have reacted to these tendencies by bringing in American Protestant evangelists of the millennial variety, whose teaching are more akin to the "accept your lot in life" creed formerly propounded by the Catholic church, and thus less threatening to the elites. Unfortunately, these evangelists have been making major inroads throughout the more impoverished areas of Latin America, largely because conversion has become a prerequisite to the crumbs offerred to chosen elements of the poor by those elites. A tangled web... LC

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