Similarities Between Catholic And Native Americans

Native Americans are the Same as Catholics?

Surprisingly, Native American and Catholic religions have as much in common as they have in differences. Native Americans have been practicing their individual, but very similar religions for thousands of years. Yet, in a brief period of time, they lost much their traditional religious practices due to the aggressive Catholic administration and missionaries in their efforts to “reform”, modernize, and educate Native American populations and their associated religions. The intolerance between these religions focuses on the differences. If they would focus on the similarities instead, the persecution, wars, and conflicts could be, if not eliminated, at the very least lessened to an extent where they could learn to respect beliefs and practices that differ from their own.
Each of the hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of different religions around the world each hold the belief that their rituals are the only vehicle to achieve
They collect the most expensive materials they can find and build massive and ornate buildings to worship in. These manmade buildings and can be abandoned, moved, sold, or demolished. Their sites are limited to what they can own. When entering a new area, they can acquire a site and create a new building. They can un-bless a site before abandoning it and can do this an unlimited amount of times. The Catholic religion is material based and portable. Their sites are temporary.
Even though these two religions have music and use instruments, the styles of music and instruments are very different. Native Americans use simple drums to emanate the beating heart of the Earth Mother. They dance while singing and chanting which can go on for days; only ending when the participants collapse in euphoric exhaustion. Nothing is written or formal and they individually dance, sing, and chant however they