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#where they were complicit in and participated in incredibly harsh and inhumane oppression and racism
umarthiels
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surprise surprise, les mis letters has got me Thinking about Catholicism again!
#les mis letters
#just tagging for personal use hfjfjwj
#but yeah myriel my beloved
#les mis published in 1862... idk when exactly myriel becomes bishop of digne but its so interesting
#bc myriel is really serving that preferential option for the poor swag
#i love myriel so much im breaking out my catechism handouts HAHAJSHDHF
#but seriously to my knowledge All That is only really articulated in the 1960s and 70s onwards with the really revolutionary clergy
#and its interesting to like grapple with/get into myriel and catholicism in general as it’s presented in lm
#while knowing that. this is published 1862!!! the ph is still colonized by then!
#noli me tangere was published 1887!!! and in it is padre DAMASO!!! a FRANCISCAN! who OUGHT to be like myriel but literally steps on '>
#'indios' and DEMANDS they pay obeisance. a FRANCISCAN portrayed like that! and here is myriel
#a BISHOP!!@
#padre damaso is also a franciscan iirc and dont get me started on irene and camorra (CAMORRA MY BELOATHED DIE BY MY SWORD)
#sorry digression but yes very interesting
#i guess part of it is that hugo was writing post revolution... that france had already had its anticlerical frenzy with the revolution and
#hugo wasnt anticlerical and all that... and of course while the clergy did do oppression in france i don't think it was as bad as in the ph
#where they were complicit in and participated in incredibly harsh and inhumane oppression and racism
#(cough the monasterio de santa clara only accepting full blooded spanish as nuns until 1898 when the americans came.. though they did accept
#native lay sisters who did household work etc)
#like the church in lm is cruel in its discompassion/as a part of the wider world which is cruel bc it does not care/bc of apathy
#meanwhile the church in noli and fili is cruel bc. okay first off inherently oppressive but second the people in it are personally shitty
#damaso isnt just cruel in apathy he literally [*****] someone and has ibarras father disgraced
#and he didn't do anything about what he knew was happening in the convent
#anyway just spitballing im overdue for a reread of both anyway
#but i have been doing research on the catholic institutions of the ph recently for Reasons
#and the things they did.... dear god the children in the monasterio de santa clara....
#the 'problem' with the friars coercing women in the confessional....
#agh sorrh uh
#tw clerical abuse
#i think
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