It is undisputed that Evangelicals are on the rise in Brazil.
It's being talked about and the subject is even coming up in regular mainstream
newscasts. Just the other morning, there was a brief story about how Marcelo
Crivella the Evangelical mayor of Rio de Janeiro created a somewhat odd moment
with his half-hearted inauguration of the Carnival bacchanal. An opponent of
the pagan festivities, he has made considerable cuts to the funding earning the
ire of many of his constituents.
Showing posts with label ACLJ. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ACLJ. Show all posts
18 February 2018
30 July 2015
Sacralist Swan Song? - The 2016 US Presidential Election
Listening to Kevin Swanson talk about this conference I'm reminded
of Jerome's famous lamentation in response to the sacking of Rome by the
Visigoths in 410. Jerome like many Evangelicals had confused the Sacralist
State with the light of the world and the inheritance of God and like many
American Evangelicals he couldn't imagine a Church without the Sacralist state
attached to it and protecting it.
30 March 2015
A Book on the Legacy of Pat Robertson
The Most
Dangerous Man in America? : Pat Robertson and the Rise of the Christian
Coalition
by Robert
Boston
Copyright 1996
Prometheus Books
This is
written as an expose' and therefore will either be applauded or heavily
criticised. No matter who reads it, the response tends to be strong.
In some ways
the book being almost twenty years old is outdated. Robertson himself will before
long disappear from the scene along with what remains of the first generation
of Christian Right leaders.
08 March 2015
A Musing on Evangelical Antithesis, CCM and the Christian Right
The Supreme
Court decisions regarding Bible reading and prayer in public school no doubt
played a part in the unification and resurgence of political Christianity in
the 1970's. However, I don't believe these factors are as central and crucial
as they're made out to be.
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