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Topic: La Santa Muerte... St. Death.
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BORN AGAIN
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It's also not easy to break old animist habits. In Ethiopia and Uganda, Christianity is also thoroughly mixed with animism (their former history of shamanism and witchdoctors).
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WhiteEagle
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Originally posted by SciptureAndPrayers:
Endoxos,
It's the age-old story: people who live in hunger and poverty respond most strongly to the one that puts clothes on their back and food on the table. It's harder for them to respond to preaching when they're naked and starving.
And it's also harder for a rich man to enter heaven, then for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
People who have no wants and have plenty of earthly comforts are harder to preach to.
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Niedziejkore
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What's worse is theres a possibility that woman actually believes she saw chicken multiply.
Then again, odds are she's what I like to call a "liar"
But seriously, how many people are in this cult? 5? 6?
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Worker bees can leave
Even drones can fly away
The queen is their slave.
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SciptureAndPrayers
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Endoxos,
It's the age-old story: people who live in hunger and poverty respond most strongly to the one that puts clothes on their back and food on the table. It's harder for them to respond to preaching when they're naked and starving.
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In Christ's love. Amen.
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Endoxos
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http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%7E11676%7E2404734,00.html
There is a cult of Catholic Mexicans who are praying to a feminine Grim Reaper... called La Santa Muerte (the Saint Death). It's really disturbing... what's worse...
"For Guillermina Díaz, keeping death at bay is as much a question of filling stomachs as avoiding bullets. Díaz's eyes glittered as she told how La Santissima once miraculously multiplied the pieces of chicken in her kitchen to help her feed a hungry family.
'Sure, I pray to the Virgin,' she said. 'But now I pray to St. Death first because she helps us more.'"
HeLLO! What ever happened to praying to God, Jesus, or the Holy Spirit?
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