Mexico Religion and Mexican Resistance Essay

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Indeed, it could be said at the time that the Catholic Church held many of the same monopolies in Mexico that had so empowered it in Europe. Indeed, it had at this juncture achieved a long-standing track record as the largest provider of loans, it was responsible for the administration of Mexico's hospital system and it maintained all civil records in much the same way as a town hall might now. Essentially, the association between popular resistance and religion would allow for the Church to assume a dominant post in early Mexican governance. Through this post, it would undermine its promises to political enlightenment and became a force echoing of long-standing Spanish monarchy, also divinely instituted.

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This would set off a sharp state of political division between liberal and conservative ideologists, the former of these strenuously objecting to the seamless relationship between clergy and governance. The result would be a series of military coup d'etas and assassinations plunging Mexico into more than a century of civil war and despair, the effects of which remain easily detectible in an impoverished, politically corrupted and violence-ridden modern state. The present day Mexico is, consistent with history, extremely religious. Its level of Christian observance is among the highest in the world. Whether this faith will ever actually be sufficient to lead the long-suffering people of Mexico to place of equality, stability and opportunity remains a….....

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