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Marcello
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I used to date a girl who's family had fled El Salvador during that country's civil war. Upon meeting her mother, I was asked to attend her church where I was to witness a miracle, speak in tongues ("yabba dabba doo!"), then fall backwards and writhe and squirm, as if gripped by an epileptic seizure. I never went. Instead, I inquired why a people who've historically been Roman Catholic had converted to American Evangelicalism. What I found out was that since the Central American wars in the 1980s, a great number of Catholics from that region had converted and become Born Again Christians. I think the main reason had to do with liberation theology, the political movement that emerged out of the Second Vatican Counsel (Vatican II), in which nuns and priests taught the Gospels to the poor, with a great emphasis based on social justice. El Salvador's Archbishop Oscar Romero was one of many proponents of liberation theology. He was assassinated during mass in 1980, and at his funeral, his faithful flock was attacked in broad daylight, when gunmen with automatic rifles sprayed the unarmed bodies. El Salvador is now a violent, poor, corrupt "backwater" for U.S. corporations to maximize profits from deregulated, harmful business practices (as in dumping waste where ever the rich don't live), and capitalizing on desperate, poor people as a cheap, exploitable work force. The amount of violence has dropped, that is if compared to the period during the civil war. Their Evangelical pastors teach them that it is their fault for being miserably poor, because they are "sinners". It makes the rich landowners able to relax. Haiti's first democratically elected president, former Catholic priest, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was also an advocate of liberation theology. He was removed twice by way of coup d'etat; once in 1991, under Bush I; the last, in 2004, under Bush II. His leftist political party, Lavalas, has since been outlawed. Then came the destructive earthquake that ravaged Haiti. Interestingly, the Evangelicals who had gone to feed, aid, comfort and convert the Haitian poor were snubbed, since due to encounters with aid groups from around the globe (especially Islamic Relief USA), many Haitians had found solace and peace in Islam, which they saw as having aspects of liberation theology. The Evangelicals want Republican voters, especially the vote of immigrant groups who've left their homelands, mainly because of war and a failing economy, directly or indirectly caused by U.S. foreign policy. All one has to do is look into various immigrant communities of South Koreans, Vietnamese, Guatemalans, Salvadorians, Nicaraguans, and now, Assyrians, to see how easily and surreptitiously the religious-Republican-right execute coup d'etats and wrest power and control out of the hands of indigenous religious (and secular) leaders of ethnic communities... like what you say is happening to Qasha George. (Nice guy, by the way.) --------------------- |
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