I’m into decolonization of Christianity, and one thing that’s really interesting is how saints were used by conquered peoples to preserve their gods and cultural practices i.e. syncretism. That’s one of the reasons Catholicism has remained more prominent than Protestantism in Latin America.

Catholicism outside of the Vatican is peganism and animism and ancestor worship with the labels scratched off.

And I’m mature enough in my atheism (really, post-atheist) to think that’s actually really cool.