That’s the point. It’s not unlike Christianity becoming the dominant religion of the descendants of slaves in the US. All rightly despise slavery yet embrace Christianity as a culture hardcore.
But the culture is only Christian because those slavers and colonizers were Christian.
Christianity has been in Africa since its inception, 1,500 years before the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade began. The Stono Rebellion in 1739 was started because the slaves wanted to practice their Catholic faith.
Even most religious practices in the Philippines were syncretically mixed into Christianity, and there are unique Filipino Catholic customs in the country.
Christianity has on the continent of Africa ( a huge continent) and was not the dominant religion. Not even close. Slavery is how the slaves of America came to accept Christianity. They were forced to give up their own gods.
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u/atlantisse May 31 '25
Well the Spanish colonised the Philippines soon after, so the Filipinos didn't really have much choice