Alan Wheatley writes:
If Evangelical Christianity
has been funded as a front for America's Central Information Agency
(CIA) as I heard argued in the late 1970s and can well believe,
President Bolsonaro of Brasil seems to be setting himself up as the one
to fulfil some prophesy of the world ending in flames as Amazonian
deforestation continues mercilesly under his approval.
Along
the way however, his racism is an affront to real Christianity, as many
would argue. That is clearly evident from a recent New Internationalist
magazine posting
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| In Bolsonaro's Brazil, the police kill more black people than Covid-19 does |
Leonardo Sakamoto reflects on the police killing of João Pedro Matos Pinto, a 14-year-old black boy, and one of many Brazilian George Floyds.
and much more besides, such as
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The young indigenous man, bent double in pain, uttered a deep, ... get support from far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who took office in January this year and is ... begins our conversation by quoting from the Bible, John 14:6: ‘Jesus sayeth unto him, I am the way, the truth ...
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