Why is Catholicism in South Africa so weak?
>>16547300It would be more surprising if it wasn't. That region was never colonized by a Catholic empire.
>>16547300Wops werent respected by the nogs for being brown.
Wasn't South Africa colonized by two Protestant European countries? This is like asking why Lutheranism is so weak in Cuba.
>>16547310To be fair, the Netherlands was Catholic by and large and is why the Flemish, an even larger group than the Dutch and Dutch speaking left their nation to because the Netherlands despite being 70% Catholic larped as entirely protty
>>16547320What the fuck are you talking about? There's ~7mil Flemish worldwide, compared with ~13mil Dutch in the Netherlands alone. The Dutch Revolt was just that, a 'Dutch' revolt, not a Flemish one separating from it, the only instance you could claim that was during the Belgian Revolution, which by that point, the Cape Colony had already been seized by Britain. During the Dutch Cape's entire existence, Catholicism was never the dominant religion in the Netherlands. >>16547300Because the Dutch Republic and Britain were officially Protestant, with the former even bolstering the population of the nascent colony with French Huguenots. When Catholic missionaries eventually made their way there, they focused on evangelising Africans in the eastern portion and largely ignored the Afrikaans-speaking areas due to the strong presence of Calvinism. I believe only the Sotho (although this might just be within Lesotho itself) and immigrant groups like the Portuguese and Italians are majority Catholic anyways.
