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wowowow, I know boards where you get banned for this :^)
>Some Mexicans have recently started worshiping a female grim reaper that they believe has done miracles.
According to the Wiki aarticle that goes back to the begginnings of Vera Cruz and the Spaniards arrival.
Also that's interesting
>Some devotees consider Santa Muerte to be an eighth archangel. Still some other followers, albeit a minority, believe that Santa Muerte is not a saint, since she has traits of jealousy and granting evil requests. These same followers, however, state that she is not Satanic either, but merely a fallen angel in purgatory trying to win back God's favor, and that is the reason she grants so many miracles
>On the first day of every month, Enriqueta or one of her sons lead prayers and the saying of the Santa Muerte rosary, which lasts for about an hour and is based on the Catholic rosary.
That is actual open demon worshipping. Everyone that's what the devils do: they take something holy like Saint Reverence/most likely the holy virgin and then they corrupt it. How can anyone think that's ok?
Someone must have started with that. Let's dress up a skeletton and worshipp it and bring it sacrifices. Seems legit.
Poor mestizos:
>The number of believers in Santa Muerte has grown over the past ten to twenty years, to several million followers in Mexico, the United States, and parts of Central America. Santa Muerte has similar male counterparts in the Americas, such as the skeletal folk saints San La Muerte of Argentina and Rey Pascual of Guatemala
>with altars containing both frequently found in drug busts.However, some warn that Santa Muerte is very jealous and that her image should not be placed next to Catholic saints or there will be consequences.
The actual ….?
>The colors of Saint Death votive candles and vestments are associated with the type of petitions made.
>[…]
>Black represents total protection against black magic or sorcery, or conversely negative magic or for force directed against rivals and enemies.
>In January, 2011, the self-proclaimed archbishop of the church, David Romo was arrested and charged with belonging to a kidnapping ring in Mexico City. In June, 2012, Romo was sentenced to 66 years in prison and ordered to pay a fine of 666 times the Mexican minimum wage for the crimes of robbery, kidnapping and extortion.
>Some of her most devoted followers are those individuals associated with petty economic crimes, committed often out of desperation; such as prostitutes, pickpockets and thieves
>Santa Muerte is also seen as a protector of homosexual, bisexual, and transgender communities in Mexico
>In March 2012, the Sonora State Investigative Police announced that they had arrested eight people for murder for allegedly having performed a human sacrifice of a woman and two ten-year-old boys to Santa Muerte
Does anyone still need convincing how evil syncretism is?
> Her intercession is commonly invoked in same-sex marriage ceremonies performed in Mexico.[37][38] The Iglesia Católica Tradicional México-Estados Unidos, also known as the Church of Saint Death, recognizes gay marriage and performs religious wedding ceremonies for homosexual couples
SO BRAVE
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And now the tl,dr, everything you need to know
>The Vatican has condemned the cult of Santa Muerte in Mexico as blasphemous, calling it a "degeneration of religion".[52] Mexico's Catholic Church has accused Santa Muerte devotees of mixing Christianity with devil-worshiping cultism.[5] The Catholic Church has linked Santa Muerte to Satanist practices, saying she is being used to mislead desperate people.[3] They state that Santa Muerte is an idol, the worship of which has been rejected by God in the Old Testament. Veneration of this or any other idol can be a form of inadvertent devil-worship, because regardless of the intent of the worshipers, the Devil can trick people into doing such things. Priests regularly chastise parishioners, telling them that death is not a person but rather a phase of life
Thanks anon for bringing it up. It's a perfect example