I have a question that has been on my mind for a while. La Santa Muerte could be seen as a catholic folk saint but could you combine her with protestant christianity? I have seen a statue where Madrina is holding Jesus in her arms and that is where this question comes from.
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>>41165527Le muerte is idolatry the Catholic Church doesn't recognize it as a saint. It's totally pagan.
>>41165616But still christians pray to her as a catholic saint. Could a protestant do the same?
>>41165616This.Pagan syncretic nonsense.
>>41165718>Pagan syncretic nonsense.Yet the Catholic Church itself venerates their own "Black Madonna" which is a dark feminine aspect.
>>41165717Yeah they shouldn't. Mexicans do all sorts of shit they shouldn't. The global south are not really generally Christian. They go to church and read the Bible but they still practice things like ancestor worship and give reverence to their old pagan gods, occasionally syncretised as "saints" like in the case of Santa Muerte. You shouldn't pray to any local deity. >>41165851You dumbass that's just a result of the pigment of the paintings darkening with age.
>>41165866Huh? Are you implying that Mexico is in the global south? Or were you implying that la muerte gets reverence in the global south?
>>41165975Global south is humid brown world
>>41166010>>41165975Alright that was a bit vague my apologies. Yes Mexico is in the global south. The global south is the humid brown people part of the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKVlMMbTI9s&t=535sI thought that this was a pretty interesting piece Vice did
>>41165527No doubt the Charismatics down there do it, I've heard of Pentecostal preachers in Africa doing black magic in private.
>>41165527The cult around Cathfolk Saints follows the Catholic way of venerating Saints, so it would be weird for a Prot to venerate them, but I guess you could>>41165866Europeans at the time still practiced ancestor worship and reverence to old pagan gods through Christianity. It was the common way to get them to convert. Not a big deal
