Review.

 July 20, 2024

   

  36 years following Jesus Christ as a Christian, 31 years attending the Catholic Church after my 23 years of adulthood, not as a child or adolescent playing , and after all that the review is I HAVE NOT SEEN MORE REPULSION SO UNEQUAL, for those who wait for the The outcome of someone accused of being a blasphemer, and the hypocrisy of those who could boast that he is a lost sheep. The truth is half the cause of his misfortunes is because their hypocrisy , silence , denial , complicity , and supporting the version of their side as Religious Power that treat such things like an Esotericism same to the world. They cause nausea even though the sin of an individual seems more obvious to the world than those supposed Churches really are, which is not very different from the world they claim to save.  God forgive me if that's how it is God , it was not the one I went to the Church and worshiped most of my life.  Their hypocrisy is disgusting and they hope to be right in the end of who they put along with the world into question.  Perhaps it is the Signs of the Times like the Prophecy of Saint Malachi that the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, would be the last and the Church would disappear, although I had already experienced such misfortune in Cuba since the first year after  I had started going to the Catholic Church in Cuba at the age of 23, although they would support such misfortune in a history of mental illness.  "Rome does not pay traitors nor does it like losers" although in this story, the traitors, the Judas Iscariot, are not an individual but a Religious Power and the majority of a people who for their well-being and future sold their souls to the God of this world.  As the Lord Jesus Christ said "What does it profit a man to gain the world if he loses his life";  and as the classic writer John Milton said in his work "Paradise Lost": "What good is it for a man to gain the world if he loses his soul."  That must be your payment, for the unfortunate Christians who suffered in this world while you reigned and only judged them and waited for your God to take charge with his torments to prove the charges in the end.

 Literature may seem ridiculous to Pragmatists. Doctrine that adopts practical usefulness as a criterion of truth, identifying the true with the useful.

  For the ear that likes classical literature of the Spanish language, a part of a work that contains a famous Soliloquy. Not to be used by others from different prisons.

Oh, wretched me! Oh, unhappy!

Hurry, heavens, I intend,

since you treat me like this,

what crime did I commit

against you being born?

 Although I was born, I already understand

What crime have I committed?

It has had enough cause

your justice and rigor,

Well, the major crime

 of man is to have been born.

I just would like to know,

to speed up my worries,

leaving aside, heavens,

the crime of being born,

What else could I have offended you?

to punish me more?

Weren't the others born?

Well, if the others were born,

What privileges did they have?

that I never enjoyed?

On May 13, 1917 in the region of Cova de Iría, Fatima, Portugal, the apparition of the Virgin Mary took place, which announced that in Russia with the October Revolution of 1917 according to the Julian Calendar then in force in Russia, which corresponds In November 1917 in the Gregorian Calendar, a weapon of Satan would appear in the world, Atheist Communism, which creates structural atheistic societies in which the majority of the population is atheist, denies and combats the existence of God with its philosophical doctrines. 

   After the Cuban Revolution of 1959, Cuba restricted religious practice, this led to the persecution of many Catholics in universities and in the workplace. Through its constitution, the Government recognizes the right of citizens to profess and practice any religious belief within the framework of respect for the law; However, in practice, the Government imposes restrictions on religious freedom

The 1970s were turbulent, and many believers decided to hide their faith in response to state persecution. Many parents did not want to burden their children with the difficulties that they would inherit if they were baptized as Christians and therefore did not approach it as such. In 1971 the archdiocese of Havana reported only 7,000 baptisms[5]. In 1989, this figure increased to 27,609 and in 1991 to 33,569.[5]

  In 1985, the Council of State in Havana published a best-selling book called Fidel and Religion, which was the abridged transcript of 23 hours of interviews between Fidel Castro and a Brazilian liberation theology friar named Frei Betto, who was of the publication attributed responsibility for excluding non-atheists from membership in the Communist Party on the grounds that:

What we were demanding was full adherence to Marxism-Leninism... Anyone who joined the party was supposed to accept the party's policy and doctrine in all aspects.[5]​

  In the following years and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the state adopted a more conciliatory position towards religion and decreased its promotion of atheism. In November 1991, the Communist Party began allowing believers into its ranks. In July 1992, the Constitution was amended to remove the definition of Cuba as a State based on Marxism-Leninism, and article 42 was added, prohibiting discrimination on the basis of religious beliefs.[5]Small centers cult were legally allowed to exist again.

However, by the early 1990s, after three decades of state atheism, Cuban society had become almost totally secularized. Weekly church attendance on the island of 11 million people was estimated at around 250,000 or about 2% of the population (with a split even between Catholics and Protestants).[5]Cuba had fewer priests per inhabitant than any other country in Latin America.

  Since 1998 restrictions have been eased and challenges by state institutions to the right to belief have also been eased, although the church still faces restrictions on written and electronic communication and can only accept donations from state-approved funding sources. The Catholic Church is made up of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Cuba (COCC), led by Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Cardinal Archbishop of Havana. It has eleven dioceses, 56 orders of nuns and 24 orders of priests.

  The Cuban Episcopal Conference has been very critical of the US embargo against Cuba and has stated that the entire population has suffered from it. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has been influenced by this and has argued that food and medicine should be excluded from the embargo.

  In January 1998, Pope John Paul II made a historic visit to the island, invited by the Cuban Government and the Catholic Church. He criticized the US blockade during his visit.

On October 20, 2008, the first Orthodox church in Cuba opened during an official ceremony attended by Raúl Castro.[6]​

  The Afro-Cuban religion[11]​ has three main practices: Santería, Palo Monte, and Abakuá. When African slaves were brought to work on the sugar cane plantations, they brought their religion and it mixed with Christianity.

  Santería, Lucumí cult or Regla de Ifá, Regla Lucumí, Lucumí or Orisha[1]​ is a religion of the African diaspora that developed in Cuba at the end of the 19th century. Their beliefs derive directly from Yoruba culture and religion, which in Cuba were syncretized with the Catholicism implanted by the Hispanic monarchy, as well as with spiritualism. There is no central authority that controls Santeria and there is great diversity among practitioners, who are known as believers.[2]​

  Santeria developed as the cult of Afro-Cubans, whose ancestors had been enslaved during the colonial era, between the 16th and 19th centuries. It is part of the group of African American religions. Santeria began to be practiced by former black slaves and their descendants in the western half of the island of Cuba (Havana), which spread to the eastern half and then to the other colonies to which the Yoruba arrived in the Caribbean. (Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Venezuela and Panama). It was formed from the mixture of traditional religions brought to Cuba by enslaved West Africans, most of them Yoruba, and Catholicism, the only religion legally allowed on the island by the Spanish colonial government. In the urban areas of western Cuba, these traditions merged with spiritualist ideas to form the first houses at the end of the 19th century. In colonial Cuba, its rituals had to be practiced clandestinely because it was marginalized and persecuted. After the Cuban War of Independence gave rise to an independent republic in 1898, its new constitution enshrined freedom of religion. However, Santeria continued to be marginalized by Cuba's Catholic and Euro-Cuban establishment, which considered it witchcraft. In the 1960s, the increasing emigration that followed the Cuban Revolution caused the emigration of Santeros to Spain, the United States and Italy, among others,[4]​ spreading Santeria abroad. Communism brought with it secularization, so that since the middle of the 20th century its social consideration has changed favorably and now many santeros from all over the world make pilgrimages to the island of Cuba. In the late 20th century, Santeria became increasingly linked with related traditions from West Africa and the Americas, such as Haitian voodoo and Brazilian candomblé. Since the late 20th century, some practitioners have emphasized a process of "Yorubization" to eliminate Catholic influences and create forms of Santeria closer to the traditional Yoruba religion.