During colonization of the Americas, there's a difference between what flavors of Christianity was brought to the US and what was brought to Latin and South America.
In the US, catholicism was brought by French, English, and Spanish.
In Mexico and all south of Mexico, catholicism was brought by the Spanish almost exclusively.
In the US, the first mass was held by Dominican friars.
In Central and South America, it was the Jesuits.
In the US, you had competition between theological thought between different sects of Catholicism because Christianity adapted itself to the cultures it converted during the Roman colonization of Europe (again, England, France, and Spain) as well as competition between Catholicism and Protestantism.
In Central and South America, you did not have competition, but you still had an adaptation to the cultures that were already there.
Do you honestly believe that didn't make a difference in the two people's and how they interpret Catholicism and Christianity?
Yeah, Biden is Catholic too, as is Pelosi. Lots of people are Catholic.
But they're not Cathokic in the way that Latin people are Catholic, are they?
I'm not slighting Catholicism. Believe me, when I punch at faith, it's Christianity as a whole, not saying one is "wrong" and another is "right". They're all wrong. I'm just noticing some very real and obvious trends in faith interpretation between peoples in the Americas due primarily to colonization.
And that's that Latin catholics tend to be far more religiously conservative than catholics established in the US due both to that initial lack of competition and the sects that initially established the churches in each area.
You know, not all Baptists are Southern Baptists either. And not all Mormons are FLDS.
Biden is Catholic and so is Pelosi. They're both conservative leaning liberals. But they're not religiously conservative, are they? Especially not in the way that Latin Catholics tend to be.
As for your failed Google search....Google is not the only search engine out there and it had more than one page of search results. It's not the one I would have chosen for a local hoopla over a dumb billboard either, particularly when billboards are going up everywhere and there's a lot of general fuss being made about a lot of them. Just saying.
There's a other Trump one in Florida insulting the Cuban community because it mentions Castro somehow. It's in Spanish.
I think my point stands. There's nothing inherently insulting about a political ad written in Spanish placed in a community with many Spanish speakers, whether they are also fluent in English or not.
Would Penguin be making the same argument over ads written in Mandarin, Cantonese, or even Tag-a-long in California cities with large Asian populations? Or ones in Hawaii written in Hawaiin? Or a Russian language ad in New York? There are over half a million Russian speaking immigrants in NYC alone.
Why is it the Spanish ones are the only insulting ones? Why are they problematic but others wouldn't be?
