“Unless a pilgrimage center is systematically discredited and destroyed, the believing masses will continue to make their way to the shrine. Mexico provides many examples of the perseverance of pilgrims in the teeth of antireligious governmental pressures. Some call this inertia, others faith, but the fact remains that on great days of feast days pilgrimage centers have never been so crowded as today.”
Pg 29-30 Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture.
If there is an outlet for the public to filter their beliefs into, then they will against all odds fight to be able to practice their values The persistence of an antireligious government that may try and beat down the spirits of the individuals they govern will not break them. People are strong and will congregate anywhere to practice their religious beliefs. Throughout time this has been proven, religious has prevailed though the Catholic Crusades, where the innocent were victimized and murdered by their government because of their religion. The vicious acts of the Holocaust did not disband the faith of the Jewish community. And whatever oppression current governments practice, true faith will stand strong.
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