Craigbythesea
Well-Known Member
You have many friends and relatives that are in full time service for the Lord, for which you can be thankful. If you look at my profile you will see that I am a missionary. You wouldn't see any of the things that I posted in Canada, I agree. I am not posting from Canada. That is one of the reasons that I am replying to your post quite late. Internet here is sporadic, unreliable (as is electricity) and quite undependable. Just to be able to post once in awhile is a privilege.
Where did you stay? In first class hotels? In tourist resorts? On well protected mission compounds where you really don't see the outside world? Was that the case? Didn't you open your eyes to those around you? Mexico is full of child-labor camps. Labor is cheap because of children that are forced to work; even parents that sell their children for income. The children work as slaves for x amount of years until the debt is paid off, and then returned--sometimes. Many times they are never returned at all. I find it so pitiful in your attitude.
"My little Johnny is missing out on his childhood because he can't celebrate Halowe'en." Most children (especially in 3rd world countries don't have a childhood, as we define it. They are forced to work to help out with the family income as early as six and seven years old. What childhood are you talking about? Halowe'en? Get a grip!! There are more serious things in life. How often do you see people in Mexico celebrating Hallowe'en.
Spend time in Mexico right among the people and see what they do celebrate. See how the Catholic religion (the Mexican's largest relgion) mixes paganism and the occult, to accomadate Mexican culture and beliefs to their religion. The Catholic religion is like a Chameleon. It changes colors wherever it is. It incorporates paganism from Hindus, Islam, and many other religions, depending on the area in which it is located. A Mexican Roman Catholic will use incantations, (like a witch doctor would), sprinkle water and/or oil to ward off evil spirits (an occultic practice), light candles under their idols, like statues of Mary (a Hindu practice), etc. etc. Please, don't tell me you have been to Mexico and haven't observed any of these things!! Was it just a sight-seeing tour that you went on?
Almost every third world mation has such things in common--deep poverty, much superstition, and an incomplete knowledge of the gospel primarily due to the poisonous teaching of the Roman Catholic Church.
Have you ever seen:
a goat or chicken offered to a statue of Mary?
a pilgrimmage made to a statue of Mary (like the Muslims)?
people voluntarily crucifying themselves to crosses in the name of Catholicism?
the Hindu practice of lighting candles, as many as possible encircling the statue of Mary?
the warding off of demons by sprinkling "holy Water" on the door posts of your house?
I could go on. This follows the paganization of Christianity and the beginning of the Catholic Church in 313 when Constantine made a false profession of faith, introduced idolatry into the Church, and made it a state religion by legalizing it. The paganization of the Catholic Church has not stopped. It continues today. And Christians unwittingly support it making a mockery of this false religion, its pagan practices, and even the worship of demons, by the imitation thereof.
And you say it deprives your child of his/her childhood. God help us all!
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Is it absolutely IMPOSSIBLE for you to write a post without casting personal insults at everyone with whom you disagree! SHAME ON YOU!!!
