Theology

We did not have "SPIRITUALITY" 
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Introduction to 
Theology In Our Interests

What makes a Chicano a Chicano, and what makes a Mexican a Mexican?

The answer: our Indigenous/Native ancestry.

Since this whole web site is about Chicano History, so it may seem "logical" that this section on Theology would be on the Catholic religion, of which very many Mexicans and Chicanos "believe" in. 

But did you know the Catholic church and its doctrines were only "recently" imposed by European Terrorists from Spain since 1521? (Don't believe me? Read their own letters and documents. Why else would the Pope have apologized recently for "past atrocities around the world" of the Catholic Church? Before that, his Church was claiming to represent the love of Jesus, and now it's admitting "atrocities"?! What's up with that?) The Spanish invaders literally had to force Catholic religion on us.

And what about the thousands of years of "religion" that pre-exists the European doctrines? Is that unimportant simply because it isn't run by White men? Should we always be narrow-sighted and never ask how we got to the place where we are now?  Is that the smart way to understand life?

Asking Questions About 
"Organized Religion"

Would you buy a car and not ask the owner what experiences the car has been through since it was first made? Wouldn't you care about the car's entire history?

Of course you should be concerned and curious. That's the intelligent thing to do. We should not be as naive in our Chicano History as the hypothetical car shopper mentioned above. We have been taught to be totally uninterested in ourselves except when it benefits Europeans and Euro-americans. We have been taught that our History began the minute that White Spaniards stepped onto Mexican soil. And we have been taught to accept nothing else besides the organized religion that they brought, which spoon feeds us reality and truth (while getting rich from us). That's brainwashing and we have to sober up from it.

Few people stop to discover that the Catholic Church is one of the richest institutions in the entire world. "Jesus Christ was the poorest of the poor. Yet the Catholic Church is the richest of the rich", wrote Avro Manhattan in his bombshell book, The Vatican Billions. The Catholic Church got rich after the fall of Rome, and it further enriched itself after the fall of Tenochtitlan. 

A Billionaire Pope...is that what Jesus was trying to become? Is that what he would approve of? What do you think? 

We need to know where our true interests are represented. They are not represented in the Catholic Church. Never have been. That's why the Spaniards had to force it down our throats. (And that conversion was only skin deep.) Even the Myth of the Brown "Indian" Virgin Guadalupe has suspicious origins.

Why didn't she appear BEFORE the Spaniards arrived, so that we would be better prepared to accept the "blessings of the Christian faith"? It doesn't pass the smell test. It looks a lot like an old Christian trick to get us to convert, especially since the Spaniards were so dead-set on removing anything that was "Indigenous" in our religion. After all, we know that Christians had mixed non-Christian religious concepts with Christianity in order to get the Celts of Europe to convert. The Spanish villains had to make their religion look like it included ours to get us to convert. The puppet-master fooled us with his puppets by using one that looked like us. That puppet was the Virgin de Guadalupe.

And another question: Why did the Catholic Church drag its heels so long to canonize "Juan Diego", the Indigenous boy who supposedly saw the Virgin Guadalupe? It isn't as if Juan Diego is still alive and just recently died!

Theology In Our Interests, 
Not Just European Interests

We need to know what we were about before Europeans made us worship their White male god. We need to know what it is Guillermo Banfil Batalla says is the Mexico Profundo, that Deep Mexico with the Pre-European (Anahuac) orientation to the universe. We need to know our sacred Anahuac Theology that reconnects us to the Universe and the Spirit, instead of separating them as enemies, like Christianity does. Just look at the environmental results and human death toll of that Christian worldview. (How many people have been burned, butchered, hanged, and shot apart by people calling themselves Christians? And yet they say the Aztecs were bloodthirsty!)

We Chicanos need to come back to the reality-based Theology of Acknowledgement that our ancestors gave us. And we need to stop playing the European make-believe game of self-centered "Spirituality". (Our Theology combined BOTH the Material and the Spirit as one and inseparable. There was no Devil nature, no hobgoblins of Hell corrupting our souls from birth).

There is no single authoritative Theology of Anahuac that will make everyone happy, just as there is no single Church for Christians.We cannot even truly piece together  But there is a common ground for Theology in Anahuac that has absolutely nothing to with Spain or the Catholic Church. Of course, the theology in this web site reflects the "metropolis" theology of 16th century Tenochtitlan as opposed to the village theology practiced outside of that city. 

I understand that there's always going to be someone who reads this site and says, "yeah...but". That's fine. I don't pretend to have all the answers. 

So instead of going deep into Anahuac Theology, we will examine some basic concepts, and after that, you are encouraged to read and seek out others who hold knowledge.

You may not adopt our traditional theology, but should realize by now that the European Catholic Church does not work in our interests. Our people have been Catholics for how long? 500 years...and we're still poor or just out of the poverty experience. 

Meanwhile, the Catholic Church continues to pile up billions of dollars in tax-free revenue. They get rich in this life while we stay poor in the hope of some promise after we are dead. 

Acknowledgement and Duality 
(Not "Spirituality")

It's time to return to Theology in our peoples' interests (not self-centered interests): A Sacred Theology that is not so much about "belief" as it is about "acknowledgement." That's the big difference between ours and Christianity: our Theology encourages us to be whole, to use our senses, and to live now, not just later. It is not about "Spirituality", which is a European concept that separates the Sacred Material Universe from The Sacred Spirit that animates it. 

We did not have "Spirituality".

That is why it is a Theology that acknowledges the Material and Spirit as one...as a Sacred Duality. This is a much healthier way of living than one that pits the Material world in a war against the Spirit. How can we separate that which is inseparable?

 Follow the links below for more information on our Anahuac Theology.