Originally posted by Swazo:
It really isn't too simplistic if you know some of the modern history of, let's use Mexico for example. Look at how the Castilians' have held onto power there and how they came into it.



Wow. There's a lot here we could pick apart. Yes I do happen to know a bit of the modern history of, let's say Mexico. For starters we have different understandings of what modern history is. You're going all the way back to the conquest and I was thinking back to the revolution.

I still maintain that the church in Mexico is not by itself resposible for the poor state of political and economic affairs today. It played its part yes. But to single out the church is to ignore vast government corruption and incompetence, the 'war' with the U.S., and the drug trade, just to name a few.

Plus, I wonder if you take into account how the government was able marginalize the church and the throne and take over sole control of the country rather than share power. Nor do you seem to consider that even when the church was at its most influential, the Mexican people had a highly resistant and rebellious nature that ended up transforming catholicism to some extent so that it would conform to their indiginous beliefs. Dia de los muertos, Virgin de Guadalupe for example. There's too much more to bring up here. And we could probably go on and on but I have a feeling we should just agree to disagree.

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