Reply #19: You think it's that simple?

[a la izquierda]

But you need to acknowledge that Mexico isn't one homogeneous culture. The relationships between Mexico's peasantry, or its native population, and the Church are quite different than almost any that exist anywhere. They don't care about the hierarchy. They care about the fact that folk religion cannot be separated from Catholicism. Changing 400+ years of history isn't going to happen easily or quickly.
The relationship between regular folks in Mexico and the Church might be similar to that in Ireland. I don't know. I'm not one of those Irish Americans that believes she has any clue as to what truly goes on in the mind of people on the Isle. I don't even pretend that my Spanish ethnicity helps me pretend to know the minds of Latin Americans. I live there part of the year and I have spent years studying Mexican peasant and indigenous culture.

Sorry to be harsh, but part of being a member of the Left is understanding that just because I disagree with the Catholic Church (and I do, if you read my other post) doesn't mean that I can snap my fingers and shit's gonna change overnight someplace else.
So, unless you're Mexican, or have spent significant time studying their religions, it's an extremely complicated aspect of culture that most people don't understand.