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According to a study released by the America Association of Retired People (AARP), at least 82% of Latinos 45 and older do. Pero that’s not all they believe in. They also believe in spirits, angels, and divine healing.
What bothered me about the study and the way the news is presenting the story, is how believing in these things is out of the realm of the religious especially when it compared Latino beliefs to the beliefs of whites. It sort of plays to the stereotype of Latino’s faith as being more “folky” and less real and respectable.
Oh you know those crazy Latin retired people and their magical thinking.
Via / Hispanic Tips, AOL Latino
La Virgen de la Gran Puta : Thoughts on Mexican Playboy’s Maria
7:22 am By Maegan La Mala · Controversia|Magazines|mexico|Religion|Women · Comments Off
17 Dec 2008
Mexico’s Playboy magazine decided that December, the same month that it’s own Virgen de Guadalupe is honored, the same month that people all over the world celebrate the biblical story of a virgin birthing a messiah, would be a great time to put a naked mujer posing like the Virgen Maria on it’s cover.
Claro, it’s Playboy, not a magazine known for taste or respect except when compared to Penthouse, for example, and it’s pretty obvious that this was a stunt meant to get attention and stir things up. What interests me is the why people are so mad.
Real Scary Stories : Poll finds 23% of Texans think Obama is Muslim.
11:21 am By Maegan La Mala · Religion|Texas|US Presidential Race 2008 · 6 Comments
31 Oct 2008
A University of Texas poll to be released today shows Republican presidential candidate John McCain and GOP Sen. John Cornyn leading by comfortable margins in Texas, as expected. But the statewide survey of 550 registered voters has one very surprising finding: 23 percent of Texans are convinced that Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is a Muslim.Obama is a Christian who was embroiled in a controversy earlier this year about his two-decade membership in Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ. Yet just 45 percent of those polled identified the Illinois senator as a Protestant.
The Obama-is-a-Muslim confusion is caused by fallacious Internet rumors and radio talk-show gossip. McCain went so far at one of his town hall meetings to grab a microphone from a woman who claimed that Obama was an Arab.
Via / Pam’s House Blend
Early Navidad Shopping : Get Your Baby loves Satan or Islam (or both)
12:05 pm By Maegan La Mala · children|Religion|Shopping · 5 Comments
10 Oct 2008
Little Mommy Real Loving Baby Cuddle and Coo from Fisher Price may look like your average battery powered doll, pero really it’s the latest tool of satanist and radical Islam (who apparently have teamed up) That’s right. Just as your little Jane or Jack are playing with their doll, the doll comes to life a la Chucky proclaiming:
Satan is king,” and clearly speak “Islam is the light.”…
Update : Outcome of Court for Educator Amaris Mesa Arrested at Religious event in the Bronx
10:03 am By Maegan La Mala · Justice|New York City|Religion · Comments Off
1 Oct 2008
Last night, we wrote about how a religious event in the Bronx, NY ended with community members harassed and arrested. This is how the powers that be treat even the most sacred things in our lives : with suspicion and ultimately, violence and repression.
Those expecting justice in the court system come out with a mixed bag.
Last evening about 15 members of the community gathered in court to await Amari’s arraignment. The Judge, District Attorneys and Court Officers were not happy. As Amaris was released on here own recognizance on multiple misdemeanor charges and her supporters walked out of the courtroom, court officers grabed Mujahid, a member of Taino Survivalists.
A face off between community people and court officers ensued in which we were told that Mujahid was arrested for disorderly conduct. When asked what had he done , we were told that “Constitution had been suspended by officer James badge # 3726. This was then echoed by officer Jack # 6788.All supporters were then ordered out of the Court Building. About 1/2 hour later Mujahid was released without charges.
They just need to remind us who is in charge.
Via / Personal Email
NYPD Arrest Educators for Photographing Abuse at Religious Drumming Ceremony
8:06 pm By Maegan La Mala · Activism|Justice|New York City|Religion · Comments Off
30 Sep 2008
Yesterday evening Amaris Mesa & Dennis Flores were arrested for carrying a camera and taking pictures of abusive police conduct at a community drumming celebration for Saint Michael in front of the Botanica San Lazaro on Kingsbridge Road, Bronx, NY.The police broke up the peaceful street celebration and pushed Amaris Mesa, Dennis Flores, adult and youth workers from NYC & Dominican Republic. The police harassed a group made up of almost all women as we were peacefully leaving the gathering. The cops snatched the photo cameras from Amaris and Dennis, pushed Amaris onto the floor and Dennis against the wall, and eventually arrested them both. Dennis was charged with “congregating with others and refusing to move, police officer’s orders.” We don’t know what Amaris was charged with as of yet.
Ohio Mosque Prayers of Mothers and Children Gassed
11:42 am By Maegan La Mala · children|Ohio|Religion|Women · 2 Comments
29 Sep 2008
It’s hard for me not to take a terrorist attack against Muslim children, women and men saying their Ramadan prayers in an Ohio mosque personally. No I am not Muslim pero many of my friends and neighbors are. I see the 12 year old girls, their toddler cousins and sisters being led in the early morning, before the sun rises, to say prayers with their grandmothers, mothers and fathers. Even the youngest among them knows to say they are going to church, not to mosque. They know the conversations in school about what terrorism looks like and they are told it looks like the faces they see in the mirror every morning.
Friday, September 26th ended a week in which thousands of copies of Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West — the fear-mongering, anti-Muslim documentary being distributed by the millions in swing states via DVDs inserted in major newspapers and through the U.S. mail — were distributed by mail in Ohio. The same day, a “chemical irritant” was sprayed through a window of the Islamic Society of Greater Dayton, where 300 people were gathered for a Ramadan prayer service. The room that the chemical was sprayed into was the room where babies and children were being kept while their mothers were engaged in prayers.
Mexican Church: Dress Right If You Don’t Want to be Raped
1:37 pm By Maegan La Mala · Controversia|mexico|Religion|society|Women · Comments Off
14 Aug 2008
Just when you think you’ve heard it all comes a quote that proves you wrong. The Archdiocese of Mexico is providing some “helpful hints” for women looking to not be sexually violated:
“If you want to avoid an act of sexual aggression…don’t wear provocative clothes…be careful with your glances and your gestures…Don’t find yourself alone with a man, even if you know him…Don’t get too familiar with your friends or relatives…Don’t allow risqué conversations or jokes…Look for help when you suspect someone has bad intentions…”
It seems that if this list of tips is to be trusted, all women should be afraid of something terrible happening to them. But let’s face it: this isn’t the first indication of the church’s belief that victims are somehow “asking for it”. Just last year a Spanish priest shocked the world with his claims that children who are molested are also “asking for it”. His quote, which rivals the one I’m telling you about today was:
“There are 13 year old adolescents, minors, who are totally in agreement with doing it, and wanting it, if you aren’t careful they provoke you.”
Wow.
That first gem can be found on the Archdiocese’s website, along with a host of other statements against the use of miniskirts, halter tops and bikinis, which, according to priest Sergio Román del Real, are “pornography and mental prostitution” because “we cause in others feelings they don’t have a right to have for us.”
Via / 20 Minutos
Image via Dazzee Designz
Focus on the Family : Ojala Que Llueva On Obama’s DNC Speech
9:33 am By Maegan La Mala · denver|DNC|Religion|US Presidential Race 2008 · Comments Off
12 Aug 2008
I never understood how Christians can wish for bad things to happen and think that falls in line with Christ’s values but yet Focus on the Family asked, half way joking, for people to pray that the skies open up and unleash torrential rain on Barack Obama’s Democratic Convention speech on August 28th in Denver.
This “humorous” Stoplight video from Focus on the Family asks people to pray for “torrential, small-stream-flooding, an umbrella ain’t gonna help you rain” on a specific time and place.
No, not any of the California fires. Denver, over the stadium where Barack Obama is set to deliver his nomination speech, that very night.
Via / Pam’s House Blend
Image Via / Wayne Bessen
Lunes Libros : The Politics of Latino Faith
11 Aug 2008
Latinos and organized religion have had a long, complicated history. Starting from our native religions and how they clashed and struggled to survive in the face of European conquest to the current growth of Latinos moving from Catholicism to Protestant evangelism, a new book, The Politics of Latino Faith : Religion, Identity, and Urban Communities by Catherine E. Wilson, looks at three faith based organizations in major urban areas and how they meld religious belief with service within the community.
This book is especially timely given the high profile of the Latino community as a key voting bloc in the upcoming presidential election in the United States.
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