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Latin America

Judi Lynn

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3. Thanks for providing the Guardian article! Hadn't heard of these guys before tonight.

Reply to Tanuki (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 14, 2025, 02:12 AM

Mar 14

The article I posted from Brazil''s Folha was the only time I had seen anything about them.

The Guardian article was outstanding. Poor people are the ones who usually turn to fundamentalist churches, which are emotional, plain-spoken, and family-like, and make them feel less helpless. What a shame.

Same situation works right in the U.S. Their congregations are more uneducated, insecure, and easily led, just right for any leader looking for people to mislead, control, fleece.

The Guardian article was perfectly timed for anyone who hasn't heard of Latin American Pentecostals before! Wonderful!

Makes perfect sense that Brazil's Bonsonaro claims to be a Brazilian Pentacostal, doesn't it?

Thank you.

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More on the narco-Pentecostalists: Tanuki Mar 14 #1

Thanks for providing the Guardian article! Hadn't heard of these guys before tonight. Judi Lynn Mar 14 #3

But did he have hippos? JoseBalow Mar 14 #2

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