Evangelicals vandalize 250 year old Catholic statues in Brazil.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

Taliban Buddha statue blowing redux. It's NOT the first time this happens in Brazil. Or the second or the twentieth.

I only have a link in Portuguese: http://oglobo.globo.com/cidades/mat/2009/06/01/duas-mulheres-destroem-imagens-sacras-historicas-no-para-756137636.asp

[Ganja Ninja]

1. Translation - from Google

BELÉM - For two women in the municipality of San Miguel do Guama, in northeastern Pará, religion became a police case. They destroyed four images of a sacred historic mother church of the city. The two accused, who claim to be evangelical Pentecostal Church, were arrested by the police. Six pieces were destroyed religious: a sculpture of Saint Michael Archangel, patron of the municipality, sculptures of St. Sebastian, of Our Lady of the Conception and the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the table that shows the path of the Church and Sailing Círio Pascal.

In the precinct, one of the accused presented a report alleging that she suffers from psychiatric disorder. Both respond to Justice in freedom for damage.

The images were taken the cities of Rome and Portugal Barnabitas by priests in the year 1758, when the city was still named as Farm Pernambuco.

[YOY]

2. I know nice Catholics and I know assholes.

For an of the former example see "Religulous" and the American priest he speaks to in front of the Vatican. They guy basically scoffs at "miracles" and "spectacle". I knew a monk who was nothing but kindness. Then you get the assholes...loudest voices in the room.

I know of no nice "evangelicals". Maybe they exist...I just have never met any. All of them I've met are just fuckups who found religion and now everyone else needs to or the sheltered idiots they have spawned that were too stupid to question their batshit elders.

[havocmom]

5. Protestant evangelicals are increasing in Latin American locations

Perhaps that is who this is about?

[YOY]

6. And looking to do just what they do best.

Fuck everything up.

[knitter4democracy]

11. I know many. People who would be privately horrified by this.

They would understand, at least a little, why those women would do that, but they'd be against it and would've told the women not to even think about destroying art like that.

[struggle4progress]

13. Jimmy Carter calls himself an evangelical

[T Wolf]

3. Good. Let the Christists destroy each other. We'll all be better off when they are cold & rotting.

[redqueen]

7. What's a "Christist"?

I think we'll all be better off when religion is only a quaint if shameful memory.

[T Wolf]

9. Amen to that - irony noted. nt

[MADem]

4. I don't speak Portuguese, but this is what I get out of it from "extrapolation."

Two women destroyed four historical, sacred statues from an old church in the city.

The two are evangelicals from a Pentecostal Church.

The works that were destroyed were a a sculpture of Saint Miguel Arcanjo, patron saint of the city, sculptures of Saint Sebastian, of Our Lady of the Conception and the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a painting that depicts something about a candle (couldn't figure that bit out).

One of the defendants is claiming that she has a psychiatric issue.

They're out on bail (???).

The images had been brought from Rome and Portugal by Barnabite priests in 1758, when the city was still called Fazenda Pernambuco.

Is that even halfway close?

[charlie]

8. Ugh, Pentecostals

Christianity's acting-out special-needs class. Pentecostal/Charismatics have become some of the largest Protestant sects in South America. They're huge in S Korea and Australia. And they're the only major US Christian groups to have grown in the last decade, according to Pew surveys.

Get used to it, CPD. Where ever there are enough of them, there's trouble. You can't reason with someone who thinks hooting yabbadabbazipadeedoodah gibberish and acting like he's in the throes of a seizure is a good thing.

[Wednesdays]

10. K&R

:kick:

[AlphaCentauri]

12. Evangelicals are very aggressive in latin america

in Guatemala they had influence in the war against the indigenous people, in Chiapas Mexico they causing trouble before the Zapatista uprising of 1994 many were found collaborating with the rich elites and government.