The religious beliefs and the theology of organized crime in Mexico are related in a directly proportional way to the social life of our country.
Alternative sovereignties require certain pacts of secrecy, pacts of silence. They need to put together an idea of a secret society, like a society within the dominant society that is willing to do things that are widely repudiated.
They need to create their own morality, a morality different from the dominant morality. So, in secret societies, highly differentiated religious practices are formed, although the symbols and images they use, come from our way of life and our own religious figures.
That separation from dominant morality can be very, very extreme. That is why the topic of cannibalism is becoming more common among Mexican narco groups because the prohibition of human sacrifice and cannibalism are the basis of Judeo-Christian morality.
And Judeo-Christian morality is the basis of the modern State. We are talking about a very profound transgression of the dominant morality and sovereignty implies a sacralization.
If you make a living killing people, you will have a morality that is made for that.
There can be no sovereignty without theology, without there being an idea about the divine, the sacred.
Saint Jude Thaddeus, a saint of the Catholic Church, has been incorporated into the cults of criminal groups.
The main narco-cults of organized crime have religious ideas that change over time, that are born, disappear, which could be absorbed by other groups. It is a changing cultural horizon.
At a certain historical moment, they adopted a cult like the Santa Muerte.
In general, there is a somewhat diffuse repertoire of things ranging from Santeria to official cults of the Catholic Church such as San Judas Tadeo. And all of these may be coexisting because they are not necessarily exclusive.
The mixture of ideas and symbols of Catholicism with criminal theology is very interesting for sociologists around the world.
Source: OEM
