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Old 01-14-2012, 08:48 AM
 
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I have a question
because I don't know how to understand this:

If it wasn't for Europeans
bringing The Catholic religion to 'The Americas'?
What religion would 'Native (mexican) Americans have?

Do Mexicans not want Europeans in America?
But, want their religion to stay?

I'm not trying to be 'smart'.
I'm just trying to understand cause
I'm not Catholic nor Mexican.

Isn't The Catholic religion from Ireland?

Sorry I don't know much about Catholics, Mexicans or the Irish.
Hope I didn't offend anyone.
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Old 01-15-2012, 06:08 AM
 
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Native Central American religion was a religion of witchcraft worship were they would sacrifice people to appease the gods of their belief , like they would cut out the heart of people and kill many people in their religion ....See the Mayan culture was so corrupt that The Lord God judged it and it was disband one thousand years ago, only to be revised today by false prophet exploiters....... Christianity was brought to Americas by Jesuit Priests, German missionaries , and Spanish and English and France explorers Even Christopher Columbus was called and lead by Jesus Holy Spirit...
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Old 01-15-2012, 06:29 AM
 
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hmmm Interesting. I hope more people reply to this thread. I'm not a history buff by any means, but I find this stuff interesting, as long as it doesn't require a lot of research on my part.
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Old 01-15-2012, 09:23 AM
 
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Native Central American religion was a religion of witchcraft worship were they would sacrifice people to appease the gods of their belief , like they would cut out the heart of people and kill many people in their religion ....See the Mayan culture was so corrupt that The Lord God judged it and it was disband one thousand years ago, only to be revised today by false prophet exploiters....... Christianity was brought to Americas by Jesuit Priests, German missionaries , and Spanish and English and France explorers Even Christopher Columbus was called and lead by Jesus Holy Spirit...
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Actually, the Jesuits had nothing to do with it since the Jesuit order wasn't founded until 1534 and the Spanish conquest began in 1520.

"Franciscan influence in the Yucatán can be considered unique because they enjoyed sole access to the area; no other religious orders, such as the Jesuits or the Dominicans were competing for the territory.Essentially, this meant that there was no one to defy the goings-on of the Franciscans at this time. They were able to use whatever method they deemed necessary to spread their beliefs, although at the beginning they tried to follow the “conversion programme” that had already been used in Mexico. (From Wikipedia)

When that didn't work their methods became very unpleasant!

Incidently, didn't God demand appeasement by the human sacrafice of his Son? So God agreed with the Mayan's in principle.
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Old 01-15-2012, 06:24 PM
 
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Isn't The Catholic religion from Ireland?
Catholicism is the oldest Christian religion and the 1st Pope was the Apostle Peter. The church was based in Rome. Probably because the Romans allowed Christianity in the year 313.

Protestants appeared many centuries later in Germany (XVI century). The Protestant faith has its origins in Catholicism.


Europeans are either Catholic or Protestants.
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Old 01-15-2012, 11:47 PM
 
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I forgot about Roman-Catholic.

Does anyone know who brought
The Catholic religion to America?

Did the Spanards bring The Catholic Religion to America?

Sorry I don't know about History.
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Old 01-16-2012, 05:22 AM
 
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Catholicism is the oldest Christian religion and the 1st Pope was the Apostle Peter. The church was based in Rome. Probably because the Romans allowed Christianity in the year 313.

Protestants appeared many centuries later in Germany (XVI century). The Protestant faith has its origins in Catholicism.


Europeans are either Catholic or Protestants.
Actually, Peter NEVER accepted the man made title of pope. He was an Apostle, like the rest of the Apostles.
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Old 01-16-2012, 05:51 AM
 
Location: Florida
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Actually, Peter NEVER accepted the man made title of pope. He was an Apostle, like the rest of the Apostles.
Amen Hot !
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Old 01-16-2012, 06:27 AM
 
Location: Northern Wisconsin
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Catholicism was brought to America by many imigrants. Anyone from France, Spain or Italy, would have most likely been Roman Catholic. Most of the rest of the European countries would have had substantial numbers of Roman Catholics among their imigrant populations. For example, I grew up in a town in Wisconsin that was mostly of German ancestry. Most of the population was evenly split between Roman Catholics and Lutherans. Our town had three large Catholic parishes, all with schools. There were at least 10 good size Lutheran churches, a small Methodist church, an Episcopalian congregation, and one very small humble Baptist church.

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Old 01-16-2012, 07:18 AM
 
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I have a question
because I don't know how to understand this:

If it wasn't for Europeans
bringing The Catholic religion to 'The Americas'?
What religion would 'Native (mexican) Americans have?

Do Mexicans not want Europeans in America?
But, want their religion to stay?

I'm not trying to be 'smart'.
I'm just trying to understand cause
I'm not Catholic nor Mexican.

Isn't The Catholic religion from Ireland?

Sorry I don't know much about Catholics, Mexicans or the Irish.
Hope I didn't offend anyone.
I think the bolded is probably one of the more bizarre questions I've ever seen on the Religion forum. Sorry, Reverend, but that one made my jaw drop.

You surely aren't serious. Rome has been the center of Catholicism since the earliest centuries. Ireland was a converted country. (If you like to indulge in, and are capable of, reading books, How The Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill is entertaining and informative and will give you the background on the Irish adoption of Catholicism)

The SPANISH are the Europeans who first made contact with what is now Mexico--which is why Mexico and most of that part of the world speak Spanish. Imagine that.

The Spanish also carried viruses, primarily smallpox, to which the native people of the Americas had no immunity. They started to die right and left, and noticed that their own gods didn't seem to be preventing the disease from spreading, but that the Spanish god was apparently protecting his people, since the Spanish weren't dying from "the disease that leaves holes in the face". This observation helped greatly in the conversion process in a world where the existence of germs and immunity was unknown.

In the US, Lord Baltimore set up Maryland as a Catholic colony. ("Mary" land. Get it?)
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