NP? Re: NP my anti-Catholicism

[Doug Millison]

What if -- just if, no commitment necessary -- this
might -- just might, nothing irrevocable -- making
Juan Diego a saint does represent part of the Church's
attempt to make amends for its past disrespect for
native cultures in America? 

Reading a bit more about Juan Diego, you would learn
that he is instrumental in bringing native traditions
into the sacred space recognized by the colonizing
Spaniard -- in his vision of Mary she is also an
apparation of a pre-existing, native goddess. 

I don't know that I'd use the word "betrayal" to
describe the acts of an oppressed subject of a
colonizing regime that had, in the past few years,
wiped out most of the country's ruling class in a
bloody invasion.  Personally, I think something a bit
more compassionate might be more appropriate --
certainly in the context of Pynchon's works, which
show deep insight and understanding for human beings
and the various factors that lead them to search for
and find God and other expressions of the non-material
realities of the universe. 

--- Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de> wrote:
> Where can I find any critical article on this
> unbelievable story of the Pope
> who calls these Stasi-indios ("informelle
> Informanten") holy who have
> betrayed their own people?


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