Religions are practised by people who interpret the scriptures as they see fit, or repeat on blind faith the interpretation of others. Thus a system of beliefs and behaviours is created and positions are taken in certain cases for or against under the banner of faith. In the same way, politics is practised by people and they create laws to govern or rule in a state of chaos or any possible situation... all this under the connivance of some and the disapproval of others.
It seems that religion and politics here had their clashes, not because of the religion itself, but because of the positions of those who practised it in relation to some issues.
I don't know if you've heard of Operation Peter Pan. I think the church supported that and this created friction. The church - said those who were steeped in the fervour of the nascent revolution - took in counter-revolutionaries. And this created more friction.
Some time later, among the many processes through which the Cuban Revolution (and this country) has passed, there was a period of rectification of errors. As if history could be erased with the stroke of a pen.
Here, those who wanted to emigrate were called stateless and even rallies were organised in front of their houses and they threw eggs at them or wrote on the walls of their houses and called them gusanos (worms). Those who did not want to join the ranks of the Youth or the Communist Party, revolutionary political organisations, could even lose the opportunity to study or to apply for a job. You couldn't have dollars here and people went to prison for having them. hahahahaha... while I'm writing this I'm laughing but the whole story I'm telling you is very sad. Now the economy is dollarised.
Here rock and the Beatles were banned, until one day... but what about before? All the people who were abused for loving that music. Who couldn't play it, who had to meet clandestinely in order to enjoy it...
Anyway, we've been through so much here... that sometimes... looking back it's so hard....
I had never heard of Op, peter pan before, interesting way for the CIA to destabilise a country on the pretext of "helping".