Would that be the court system’s place?Aletheia wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2024 7:07 pmIf someone dresses up as a nun, speaks in Latin and wears a rosary, that doesn't mean they actually believe in a version of Christianity that would be acknowledged as Christianity by other Christians, even if they claim to be Christian.Slimshandy wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2024 5:14 pmSo do you feel you have a better grasp of what happened here than the murderer, kidnap victim and prosecution?Aletheia wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2024 5:10 pm
Santa Muerte, is a new religious movement, female deity, narco-saint, and folk saint in Mexican folk Catholicism and Neopaganism. A personification of death, she is associated with healing, protection, and safe delivery to the afterlife by her devotees.
5 million devotees in Mexico, constituting approximately 5% of the country's population.
So, yeah, nothing at all to do with Satanism.
Which isn't to say that some nut-job who isn't religious and just wanted to look like a bad-ass might not care about the difference.
At best, this murderer has invented their own personal syncretic religion, in the same way that Santeria combines elements both of Christianity and of the indigenous Yoruba worship of orishas.
Given the prevalence of 'satanic panics', it isn't unlike that anyone who has actually read widely about religion will be able to be more precise with their terminology than a random nutter.
How motivated the press and court system are to correct the murderer's usage is open to speculation.
To correct his usage of the terms that he’s describing as the reason he murdered a teenage girl?
Btw- Santeria is a legitimate religion, even though it takes from other religions… I’m not saying it’s anything to do with Satanism, but there’s no reason not to view Santeria as a legitimate religion…