One sees in Latin America, and also elsewhere, among many Catholics a certain schizophrenia between individual and public morality.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I grew up in the north of Chile, and this is why there are a lot of religious symbols in my pictures: because the Catholic Church in Latin America is very strong.
Ordinary Catholics are praying when they do not think they are. They are praying when they offer implicitly all they are doing to God.
I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it.
I'm not sure that Jesuits ever produce faithful Catholics. Because they're too fierce. It is Sturm und Drang, and it is guilt - it is all that battlefield stuff.
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
Plenty of people are raised Catholic and then aren't Catholic anymore, like any religion.
In Latin America in general, it's very important that Christianity not be simply a thing of reason, but also of the heart.
Catholics are every bit as diverse as any other sort of voters out there, with conservative Democrats and moderates.
There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia', but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.