Original sentence: While Christians denied the Divine status of the Orixás, there was no reason why believers of Candomblé could not regard Jesus and Christian Saints as being powerful deities
Edited sentence: One should note that syncretism was more natural for polytheist and multi-ethnic Candomblé than for the centralized, strongly monotheistic religions of the Old World.While Christians furiously denied the Divine status of the Orixás, there was no reason why belivers of Candomblé could not regard  Jesus and Chrisitian Saints as being powerful deities