Despite my username I was raised in about the most Trad of all TradCath households you can imagine. AMA. Save me from being #14 in line at this cursed job audition

  • Bluegrass_Buddhist [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    One can hope, but I'm not sure. When Spain began colonizing the Carribean and what is now Latin America, there was a lot of syncretism there too between the Catholics and the indigenous belief systems. A few monks in New Spain even commented in their journals how similar the natives' bloodletting rituals were to Catholic Eucharistic sacrament.

    With early Capitalism already pumping gas into the colonial engine, I don't know if a Gnostic Spain would have been acted any better.

      • Bluegrass_Buddhist [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        Hey, me too. There was one book I remember reading about a world where Christianity never replaced Roman Polytheism, but I forget the title. Basic outline of the world was that there was little-to-no gender discrimination, but slavery was still legal.