Christian churches and new secularism in Mexico
Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero
april 21, 2019
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Recently, the moral perspective that the President of the Republic has taken to implement a social ethic of Mexican regeneration has been severely questioned. The change regarding the human values that are thought for a new republic and society includes a different form of secularism. The importance of Christianity other than Catholicism was considered as an ally of community transformation through the possibility of access to mass media. New Christianisms are present in the country and it is necessary to take them into account for social change.
The critical point has come to say that the proximity between the Chief Executive and non-Catholic Christianity implies a violation of the Lay State; although, perhaps, the real annoyance has been of the High Catholic Hierarchy, and its Falcons, so accustomed to the chaplaincy and unbelieving by the exhaustion of a relationship -or rather, subjection- between Mexico and the Holy See, between the government and the bishops of uncompromising integral Catholicism.
Why is there panic in the Catholic oligarchy regarding Protestant Christianity? From the time of the Modus Vivendi, the Holy See had managed to subjugate the Mexican State and, thanks to the United States, the Revolutionary Family and the leading groups of Catholicism, shared spaces of economic, political and social power. In the Cold War this attack against Mexico deepened to ignominy, as in Latin America, and in Neoliberalism it reached the extreme, consolidating modern conservative elites represented in the PRIAN. The model was Chile, but we became Croatia.
During the years of political transition, the reform of Constitutional Art 130 transformed Mexico into a Clerical State. Confessionalism and Neoliberalism deepened the debacle and social decomposition of the country. The Divine Monarchy of Mexico dedicated itself to looting and violating, without limits, society. There are the names of the bishops, decent families and economic groups to verify who were the beneficiaries of the Mexican destruction. This period also marks the corresponding degeneration of social values in Mexico. Violence, abuse, crime and murder spread throughout the nation. The country became a republic of crime, a narco-state. The neoliberal era generated a social gangrene that became metastasis.
Society was left orphaned and abandoned, without government and moral guidance. Social movements independently and independently generated the starting point where the historical possibility of 2006 found an inspiration for 2018. In these emancipated movements are the new Churches, the non-Catholic and self-taught Christianities that were organized and protected alone. Some of them, even, tried to approach Felipe Calderón; However, they were rejected: the intransigent integral Catholicism mandates, does not share. Many people who went astray in the face of the abandonment suffered by syncretic and popular Catholic religiosity have found in these new Christianisms a form of existence and collectivity. The hierarchy of the Catholic Church became accustomed to power and was absent from the popular classes and the south of the country. Therefore, these new popular metanarratives were linked with social movements and managed to boost the citizen networks of Morena.
The vein of autonomy, self-management and independence is the way by which this relationship between Christian groups and AMLO should be interpreted when secularism is discussed. There are enormous differences, particularly with the groups of uncompromising integral Catholicism, since the new Christianisms are not subject to any empire that seeks to take advantage of Mexico, they are autonomous, original and native. It is necessary to recognize that the conflicts between the State and the Catholic Church in the historical trajectory of the country, have been because of the Vatican imperialism, will never allow the existence of a Mexican Christian Church. Calles, Juárez and Cárdenas were believers who fulfilled their historic duty to safeguard the homeland of foreign interests.
It is strange the amazement of scholars and activists of the religious phenomenon against the empowerment of Protestant groups. Those who presumed to know the subject will surely know about the work of Dr. Elio Masferrer Kan and the National School of Anthropology and History. For decades, Catholicism has been in retreat due to the attachment to political and economic power; even Mario Bergoglio has had to recognize it. The lack of honesty, probity and social work, caused that the abandoned social groups constituted new forms of spirituality, they voted for AMLO in 2018, there are social Catholics, Evangelicals, Pentecostals, Messianists, Adventists, Mormons, liberation theology, Indian, feminist, and even ecological.
The recommendations for the regeneration of Catholicism have been established by Bergoglio, do not go through violence, authoritarianism and, much less, the right. The Catholic Church needs a deep rehabilitation and order too much inside, the Hierarchy has been violated by the pope to become honest and humble, he has pointed out that it is important to abandon cowardly attitudes against those who are not Catholics. There are several forms of coexistence among different Christianities and a new one can be achieved: ecumenism. Those intellectuals and groups that now seek to initiate a Holy Inquisition against non-Catholics are evidence of the serious authoritarianism to which the Roman Curia accustomed us.
The secular State is no longer anticlerical but tolerant and no longer an enemy of the worldviews. The forms of religiosity do not correspond only to the Catholic Church. Secularism must be reconsidered in Mexico; Above all, in light of social changes. Another country can start and religious change will be one of the most important.
Has the increase of religious options in Latin America served? In the first instance, the axiom of Max Weber exposed in "The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism" can be recovered, the nations that pass from Catholic to Protestant Christianity are more developed, hardworking, liberal and democratic. It is a long-term goal that this transformation occurs, what is important is that it has begun and those defects of Mexicanness could change. If there is fear because the Protestant groups are run by North America, what about the Catholics? It is likely that Protestantism encourages the United States to have a better relationship with us. That the same educational, social, media, political and economic conditions that Catholic groups have had are open to Protestants.
All competition is positive, eliminates monopolies and forces the improvement of the actors involved. Changes in the religious forms of the country have to be supported.