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Hispanic Evangelicals May Surprise Dems

By F. JJ. Kiel

The immigration “reform” agreement reached between President Bush and congressional Democrats has many liberal party faithful rubbing their hands in gleeful anticipation of a permanent majority when millions of Hispanics register to vote. They may be in for a nasty surprise.

Religion.

The overwhelming majority of Democrat leaders are secular humorists, many of whom attend church or synagogue simply to shore up their religious image in order to win liberal voters who are actually believers.

Such Democrats actually have no idea of what going in religion in America.

The strongest Christian movement is recent decades has been churning through not only Hispanics already in the United States, legally or not, but also among citizens of Latin America who have remained in their homelands.

Millions of Hispanics have cut their centuries-old ties to the Roman Catholic church and have embraced evangelical movements.
Yes, many Hispanics, just as whites, blacks and Asians in the United States, remain loyal Catholics who sincerely believe in their religioin.

The majority of Hispanic Catholics have for decades acted exactly like Catholics of other cultures in the United States. They are pro forma Catholics whoo may attend mass on Christmas, Easter and for weddings, funerals and Christenings. But they do not live their religion.

The vast rows of empty pews on Sundays in Catholic and “mainstream” Protestant churches across the United States present the actual state of Catholic belief among the majority raised that religion.

Catholic masses are usually still celebrated with elaborate ceremonies that directly link priests with God, but leaves parishioners to plea to priests or pray to statues of saints to act as intermediaries with God.

The evangelical movement has made such dramatic progress in the United States, and now in Latin America because it throws out priests and idols of saints and bring believers into direct communication with God.

I lived in Latin America for 14 years as a journalist in different stints in the 1970s, 80s and 90s and still visit the region regularly.

Because Latin women are so beguiling and a few – a very few, alas – found something charming in me, I usually lived within an extended Hispanic family.

The extended families give Latin America an inner strength that other ancient societies have, but Americans can only dream uselessly about, given our habit of throwing children out to the world of college and jobs at age 18 and making it clear that returning home makes our offspring failures.

But I also saw that although the overwhelming majority of people professed themselves to be strong Catholics in families that lived and died with the religion for generations, few actually went to church. Much fewer adhere in jubiliation to the life practices outlined by Catholicism. When they do go mass, they usually take part with the same blank stares and mumbled prayers as their counterparts in the United States before the title wave of immigration washed over our shores.

It is true that many once formerly deserted Catholic churchs in the United States have been revived wwith the large influx of Hispanic immigrants, and to a lesser extent, only because of their numbers, of equally devoted immigrants from Asia.

Many Catholic churchs, again under the influence of immigrants, have moved to celebrate masses that draw in a singing and shouting parishioners that rival the ecstasy in evangelical churches.

Still, evangelical movements are gaining millions of Hispanic converts in nearly all Latin American countries, and in a lesser percentage, in the United States.

The movement is strong and probably irreversible as people look for meaning in an increasingly chaotic world.

Thirty years ago, converts to evangelical churches in Latin America were treated as lepers. Vast number of Catholics, steeped in centuries of tradition, could no more see themselves leaving the church as throwing their toddler children out into the streets to fend for themselves. It was beyond comprehension.

That is no longer the case. Nowadays, practically every Latin American knows neighbors and even relatives who have converted to evangelical movements.

As in America, the ceremonies in Latin American churches are filled with people full of joy by what they see as their direct contact with a loving God, who embraces each and every one of them who have declared Christ as their “personal savior.”
There is no need to worry about how God may judge you after your death, no need to worry that some lojg ago slip up that you barely remember will condemn you to an eternity to hell.

Evangelicals do not have to make sure to get that last confession in right before they die, or have a priest rubbing holy oil on their foreheads in the “last rites,” that will grease their ascent up to Heaven.

Open your eyes when you travel through neighborhoods filled with Hispanic immigrants. Yes, you will see towering cathedrals with “new” Spanish language masses. If you look closely, you will also see many churches who rent their space to evangelical congregations for Sunday afternoon and evening services, as well as weekly Bible studies and generally Wednesday night services.

Those people “know” they are going to heaven and look forward to the Wednesday and Sunday meetings where they share their joy and wonder with other “saved” souls.

More importantly, because they are so convinced in their faith, they actually take to heart the admonishments of preachers and activists to “live their religion.”

Yes, in both Latin American, I have known hypocritical evangelicals from all cultures, from Hispanic men who use their supposed devotion to pray on women, and white American fervents who questioned me closely about my own “re-birth in Christ” in the typical “holier than thou” arrogance, and then went home and beat their wives.

That is, unfortunately, the image that most non-evangelical Americans have of their “saved” fellow citizens – folks who bully non-evangelicals with their appointment in Hell and use strict teachings to act as dictator to wives and children.

That, believe me, constitutes a very small number of evangelicals. People in the media, nearly 100% lacking any religious principles, desperately play up the bad apples among the evangelicals, anxious to prove the movement as not only ignorant but also morally suspect. They have to. Otherwise, they might be forced to consider whether those “nutty” Christians might actually jump on the stairway to Heaven in death, while they, so contemptuous of these people in life, might watch in envy as they ascended upward, and themselves … well, there can be no Hell.

Evangelicals who “live their religion” will, when they do vote, overwhelmingly select candidates that profess the same tenets as they do, along with the moral principles that go along with. The main goal is to bring your children up in a household of faith, trying to put fingers in the dykes that hold back the tremendous forces of filth that threatens to crush every household.

Mainstream Democrats are so blindly secular that big ripe mango could ripen early and bite in their private parts over their gleeful plans to make citizens of tens of thousands of Hispanic illegal residents, figuring the Spanish vote will give them a Democratic majority for decades over the white-dominated southern Republican party.

Since these arrogant Democrats not only fail to attend church regularly, they have failed to understand the most powerful wave sweeping over the Hispanic community.

Alas, in most Hispanic countries, and for those His Catholic Hispanics in American, the Catholic Church as become a lifeless fossil.

It is true that Catholics are trying to form evangelical Christian services in order to keep the attraction of youngsters but it may be a losing battle.

The forces of secularism is strong in the United States and is much more likely to drag off the majority of Hispanic young girls, just like those of other ethnic groups, to Mall Churches of Nortstrom and Dick’s, but enough may remain to surprise Dems. hillary Clinton