The politics of the United States towards Hispanic America was one of Protestantism. In other words, make the Roman Catholic world Protestant. Very early on, they started sending Protestant missionaries. This was not a secret policy, President Roosevelt while visiting Argentina said that the US could never dominate Hispanics until Roman Catholicism was eliminated and become Protestant. The American establishment started a systemic policy that was well financed, well organized, sending Protestant preachers to all Hispanic America.
The United States knows that the two agglutination factors of the Hispanic world are 1) Language 2) Religion. The language was brought by Spain. The Religion was brought by Spain. The British sunk the Spanish empire but the building blocks of the civilization were there. Without the language and religion Hispanic America dissolves. By the way⊠every time the word âLatin Americaâ is used, that is fomenting further balkanization and creating MS 13 gangs and drug cartels. It all starts with words, but Iâm not diving into this.
This policy was very successful because it was well financed and converted many people to Protestantism. When I was growing up, there was still a Roman Catholic culture. There was still a unified topological space in the communities. Slowly, as Protestantism started spreading the social space started to break down, communities no longer shared the same worship and traditions.
That also started a phenomenon, where the Roman Catholic church started to become Protestant. Vatican II changed the liturgy, vestments and ritual in the Roman Church. The institution started loosing itâs own identity that made them what they were. For example, one of the biggest tragedies is practically the conversion of a large part of Brazil to Protestantism. Very catastrophic because is a social problem, it breaks the substantial unity among Hispanic Americans.
Is not all doom and gloom, this also had a positive effect, because as the Roman Church dedicated itself to make social works like Hospitals, Universities, Orphanages, many people were left out, and the Protestants reached a lot of people in poor communities. They took a lot of people out drugs, prostitution, and the social fabric more or less started to be repaired.
There is something that I could identify as positive among protestants. Many of them became defenders of the Hispanic World as a civilization. Why? It takes 12 years to form a Jesuit Priest. It takes 6 years to form a Roman Catholic Priest. It only takes 6 months to form a Protestant and not much study is required. Since they donât study that much, and they are essentially good people, they donât know who was Martin Luther. They donât know who was Calvin. They donât know much about them, and they become quasi protestant which is a good and bad thing. The good part many protestants became defenders of the Hispanic world, Spanishness and contributions to our civilization. The bad part,they are practicing a Christianity that never existed, thatâs the problem.
The Roman Church on the other hand, didnât defend Spanishness, and that is very retarded because by not doing that they are not defending themselves. Hopefully that will change when the Roman church gets new leadership and brings back that church to its traditional liturgy and ritual. There are many padres, many fathers in South America, not happy and want a change of the current state of affairs. All those photos are Roman Catholic churches across South America.